TribuneReport: Tribune Pondering Sale of Tribune Media Services UnitsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on May 29, 2008 - 9:50am.
Cablevision to Acquire Newsday for $650 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on May 12, 2008 - 7:40am.
Major Newspaper Publishers Team on Online Ad NetworkAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 15, 2008 - 8:14am.
tags: Advertising | Newspapers | Hearst | Gannett | Publishing | Tribune | New York Times Co. | quadrantONE |
Report: New York Times to Cut 100 Newsroom JobsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 14, 2008 - 10:37am.
New York - The New York Times has announced to editorial employees that it will cut 100 jobs from the company's newsroom this year, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. Gannett, Tribune Look to Form Web Newspaper Ad NetworkAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 7, 2007 - 9:49am.
New York - Newspaper publishers Gannett (NYSE: CGI) and Tribune (NYSE: TRB) are in talks with three other publishers -- who are currently in a similar deal with Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) -- on creating a national online advertising network, Reuters reported, citing sources involved in the discussions. Analysis: Newspapers Should Embrace Online AggregatorsAuthored by Scott Karp on June 18, 2007 - 8:58am.
TV Station Groups Form Open Mobile Video CoalitionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 17, 2007 - 3:18pm.
Las Vegas - Nine major broadcast TV station groups have formed a coalition aimed at speeding the development of mobile digital TV. Tribune Accepts Sam Zell's $8.2 Billion Takeover OfferAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 2, 2007 - 3:13pm.
Chicago - Media firm Tribune on Monday ended months of speculation about its future by accepting an $8.2 billion takeover offer from real estate mogul Sam Zell, the chairman of Equity Group Investments. Report: Tribune Pondering $8 Billion Takeover BidAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 28, 2007 - 12:31pm.
Baltimore - Tribune, the Chicago-based media company that owns a variety of newspapers and TV stations, could be sold by the end of the week, Bloomberg News reported. Gannett to Acquire Conn. Newspaper Group for $73 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2007 - 12:50pm.
McLean, Va. - Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and 89 other daily newspapers, said on Tuesday that it will pay $73 million to acquire certain assets of Southern Connecticut Newspapers Inc. (SCNI) from rival publisher Tribune. Tribune Taps VMix for User-Generated Content on Newspaper SitesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 29, 2007 - 2:36pm.
San Diego - User-generated video community and technology provider VMix announced on Monday that it has partnered with Tribune Interactive, to provide the company's newspaper websites with technology to manage user-generated videos, photos, blogs, ratings and polls. San Diego-based VMix will power user-generated content on websites for Tribune properties including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. More Reverberations on Ad Network Planned by Newspaper GiantsAuthored by Peter Krasilovsky on January 12, 2007 - 12:35pm.
There’s been more industry feedback on the “Open Network” for national advertising that Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune (GMT) have proposed to launch for the newspaper industry. The first question is: who leaked it to reporter Julia Angwin and why? There is some feeling that the leak didn’t come from GMT, and in fact, probably came from some other party that wanted to sabotage the network before it really got started.Angwin got a great scoop, and wrote a great piece, but I wonder whether her suggestion that Gannett Digital Media head Jack Williams was thinking in terms of illegal antitrust collusion was really warranted. The article states: tags: Advertising | Online Publishing | Newspapers | Gannett | Portals | News | McClatchy | Tribune |
Gannett to Team with Publishing Rivals to Sell Online AdsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 10, 2007 - 10:17am.
McLean, Va. - Hoping to fight declining circulation and revenue, three major newspaper publishers, Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, plan to jointly begin selling display ads for their Internet sites, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. tags: Internet | Advertising | Online Publishing | Newspapers | Gannett | News | WSJ | McClatchy | Tribune |
Tribune Co. Extends Timeframe to Sell AssetsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 29, 2006 - 2:28pm.
Chicago - Tribune Co., the Chicago-based owner of newspapers and TV stations, said that it has extended its timeframe to sell either its whole company or individual assets to the first quarter of next year.
Gannett Reportedly Exploring Bid for Tribune AssetsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 13, 2006 - 2:29pm.
McLean, Va. - Executives from Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and 89 other daily newspapers, reportedly met with counterparts from Tribune last week about possibly acquiring all or part of the newspaper publisher's assets.
Report: Group Led by Ted Venetoulis Looking to Buy Baltimore SunAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 27, 2006 - 2:54pm.
Baltimore - A group led by former Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis is hoping to buy The Baltimore Sun from owner Tribune, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
Venetoulis, whose Baltimore Media Group also includes local civic leader Walter Sondheim Jr. and Robert Embry Jr., the president of Baltimore's Abell Foundation, said that he's hoping to return the paper to private ownership to restore some of the quality that has been lost over the years as a result of increased budget concerns. tags: Deals | Internet | Online Publishing | Acquisitions | Newspapers | News | Tribune | Baltimore Sun |
Career Moves: September 13, 2006Authored by dmw on September 13, 2006 - 7:35am.
Tribune Interactive announced Brigid Kenney has been named SVP,
Network Operations. Kenny was previously SVP / General Manager at Tribune Interactive.
Career Moves: August 7, 2006Authored by dmw on August 7, 2006 - 11:07am.
Interact-TV Names George Merrick as CEO
Darian Patchin has joined Backfence, a nationwide network of community newssites, as its Vice President of Marketing. Patchin was previously the Vice President of Advertising for the social-networking pioneer Tribe.net. tags: Career | Moves | Sirius | Playboy | Backfence | Tribune | Telcogames | GarageGames | Aspyr Media |
WorldNow to Stream Video for Tribune Services WebsitesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 17, 2006 - 2:48am.
New York - WorldNow, a provider of multimedia publishing technology for local media websites, announced on Tuesday that it will provide streaming video products for all of Tribune Interactive's television and newspaper websites. New York-based WorldNow will provide streaming video and ad delivery technology for the websites of Tribune properties including Chicago's WGN-TV, New York Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel and KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.
Acacia Licenses Streaming Patent to Gannett, Tribune, ScrippsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 15, 2005 - 9:40am.
Newport Beach, Calif. -- Acacia Research, a holder of patents on streaming video-on-demand and other technologies, announced on Monday that it has secured licenses of its digital media transmission patent from a group of newspaper and other news publishers, including Gannett, Internet Broadcasting Systems, Journal Communications, Landmark Communications, The E.W. Scripps Company and Tribune Company. In addition to having now licensed its streaming patent to 302 companies, including Disney and Playboy, Newport Beach, Calif.-based Acacia has also sued firms including Comcast, Cox and DirecTV that have declined to license its technology for patent infringement.
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