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Report: Nielsen Mag Sale Could Come Friday
A sale of Nielsen’s b2b mag titles to James Finkelstein’s News Communications could come as soon as Friday, TheWrap continues to insist, even as the company signals it plans to keep the properties. While the Nielsen mags in question, including THR, Billboard, Adweek and others, have long been...
Tags: Adweek, Sale, B2B, Asset Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, David Kaplan
External links 2009-11-19
Breaking News: Christie Hefner Out As Playboy Chairman, Will Leave CEO AND Board Posts As Well
Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) for the last two decades, is leaving the family business, stepping down as chairman today and as CEO Jan. 31, 2009. It looks like a complete break: she will leave the board when a new CEO is found. Effective immediately, board...
Tags: Board, Chairman, Playboy, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Industry Moves, Media, Magazines, Staci D. Kramer, Playboy Enterprises Inc.
External links 2008-12-08
Mark Cuban's Advice To Fox & MySpace On Selling Content: Yes, You Can
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick and allows us to publish it here when the subject fits.Rupert , you didn't ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me. First the good news.  You...
Tags: Mark Cuban, Site, MySpace, Newser.com, News Site, Internet, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, TV, Companies, News Corp., New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.
External links 2009-08-09
Is There a Case for Playboy + Maxim?
We've been doing our channel checks for some time on the fates of two iconic brands in the men's magazine industry. One is more troubled than the other, and both, in the end, will have a different owner, sooner rather than later. Both Playboy and Maxim have gone through...
Tags: Playboy, Maxim, Cerberus, Public Relations, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali, Playboy Enterprises Inc.
External links 2009-08-11
Vibe Revives: Acquired By Intermedia Partners, Uptown Media
Hip hop mag Vibe is back from the dead—and with a digital bent. A group led by Leo Hindery's PE firm InterMedia Partners and its luxury publisher Uptown Media is picking up the magazine, and more important, its website. Vibe.com is the linchpin of the plans described in the...
Tags: Intermedia, Media, Vibe, Vibe.com, Journal, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Site Development, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Internet, Business Operations, Entertainment, Music, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-12
Print Your Own Life Magazine - Getty/Time Partner With HP
Ever wanted to run your own iconic photo-journalism magazine? Soon, web users will get to print their own, personalized edition of Life, as Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) and Time Inc. continue trying to monetize the mag they revived as Life.com in March.This Q4 or next Q1, Getty VP and...
Tags: Getty Images, Hewlett-Packard Co., Time Inc., Life.com, Celebrity New, Channel Management, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Time Warner, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-12
Journalism Online Offers Up 'Letters Of Intent' From Possible Affiliates?But No Names
Journalism Online, the new make-journalism-pay venture from Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery, has letters of intent from newspaper publishers representing 506 newspapers, magazine and "leading global news sites" but isn't identifying any by name. That's after weeks of promising a list of interested publishers. They will be...
Tags: Publisher, Letter, Operational Accounting, Construction, Finance, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Guardian Media Group, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-13
Reader's Digest Files For Ch 11 Bankruptcy For U.S. Arm
This had been brewing for a while: Reader's Digest company has filed for a pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company was acquired for $1.6 billion by a consortium of investors, led by PE firm Ripplewood, in 2006. It hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis earlier this year to look...
Tags: Lender, Board, Restructuring, Financing, RDA, Corporate Governance, Investment, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-17
Reader's Digest Bankruptcy Details: Presentation to Public Lenders
Reader’s Digest filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today, and some more details are coming out via a presentation it gave to its public lenders titled “The Faceplan: Fast Forward” (yes!). The gist of it: details of the bankruptcy exit plan, and the brand/company going forward; it also...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Presentation, Reader, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-18
F+W Media Sells Fantasy Sports Holdings To Fanball
Fantasy sports network Fanball is buying up several of F+ W Publications’ athletics related online and offline properties, which include contest and content sites.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. F+W, which publishes a range of enthusiast magazine titles and books, is handing over National Fantasy Football Championship...
Tags: Fantasy Sport, Media, Property, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-18
World Of Warcraft Magazine Targeting Gold-Rich, Long-Term Subscribers
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) is adding orcs, trolls and blood elves to its list of licensed magazine franchises. The Bath, England-based publisher is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment for World Of Warcraft: The Magazine, a quarterly available in English, French, German, and Spanish.Most interestingly, the 148-page title will be available...
Tags: Blizzard Entertainment, World Of Warcraft, Games, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Sales, Entertainment, Gaming, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Future Publishing, Vivendi, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-20
Journalism Online Adds Non-Profit Support With IWPR As Launch Partner
Journalism Online hasn’t moved beyond letters of intent on the commercial side but the Steve Brill-Gordon Crovitz-Leo Hindery Jr. enterprise is adding a non-profit service that already has a launch partner: the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR. The non-profit service announced this morning (these are intentional...
Tags: Affiliate, Publisher, Productivity, Benefits, Human Resources, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-20
Reader's Digest Bankruptcy Proceedings Moving Fast: Gets Approval From Lenders
Reader’s Digest is serious about getting out of Ch 11 bankruptcy fast: it has secured approval of about 80 percent of its senior secured debt holders. This means that these lenders will exchange a substantial portion of RD’s $1.6 billion in senior secured debt for equity and will reduce...
Tags: Salary, Bankruptcy, Reader, Litigation, Personal Finance, Benefits, Business Operations, Human Resources, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-20
Zelnick Interested in BusinessWeek; Wasserstein's As Employees Fave?
The bidding for McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) owned BusinessWeek is entering final stages, and bids are due by Sep 15, reports BW’s own Jon Fine. A new name in the process is Strauss Zelnick’s ZelnickMedia, which seems to be part of every major media bidding these days. Zelnick is best...
Tags: BusinessWeek, Strauss Zelnick, Games, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-20
Conde Nast Digital Starts Feeding Video Content To Boxee
Boxee users will now be able to watch video clips from Wired.com like this one on how to set up a chemistry lab in your house and Style.com, as well as Style.com’s photo slideshows. Conde Nast Digital has become the latest media provider to do a content distribution deal...
Tags: Wired Inc., Video, Streaming Media, Boxee, Conde Nast Digital, Web Site Development, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-25
Illinois Real Estate Exec Takes Minor Stake In New Republic
What is it with Illinois real estate magnates and their penchant for investing in money-losing publications? Michael Alter, the president of his family’s commercial real estate business has taken a 12 percent stake in liberal-leaning political mag The New Republic, Chicago Tribune reported via Romenesko. This is not Alter’s...
Tags: Republic Corp., Commercial Real Estate, Magazine, Chicago, Real Estate, Financial Services, Investment, Business Operations, Finance, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-26
Time Inc. Shutters Southern Accents Mag?More To Come?
After 32 years,Time Inc. will close Southern Accents with the September/October 2009 issue, the company said. The mag's website, SouthernAccents.com, will remain alive, at least for now. The mag's ad pages declined 37.4 percent during the first half of the year, according to figures from the Publishers Information Bureau.Southern...
Tags: Advertisement, Time Inc., Mag, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Time Warner, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-06
Earnings: Playboy Q2 Loss Worse Than Expected; Digital Profits, Revs Drop
Although Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) had warned that its Q2 earnings would look worse than previously thought due to higher restructuring charges, the company still managed to miss analysts expectations. Playboy's net loss widened to $8.7 million ($0.26 per share) from $3.2 million ($0.10 per share) last year. Analysts...
Tags: Revenue, Income, Playboy, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Entertainment, Adult, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, David Kaplan, Playboy Enterprises Inc.
External links 2009-08-04
Breaking News: Christie Hefner Out As Playboy Chairman, Will Leave CEO And Board Posts As Well
Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) for the last two decades, is leaving the family business, stepping down as chairman today and as CEO Jan. 31, 2009. It looks like a complete break: she will leave the board when a new CEO is found. Effective immediately, board...
Tags: Board, Playboy, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Entertainment, Adult, Industry Moves, Media, Magazines, Staci D. Kramer, Playboy Enterprises Inc.
External links 2008-12-08
Wenner Hires First Digital Head; May Take Back RollingStone.com From RealNetworks
Wenner Media is finally getting serious about this thing called the Internet, and has hired Steve Schwartz as its first ever chief digital officer. Schwartz has been the GM of the Reader's Digest website since January this year, and will join Wenner next month.The parent company of Rolling Stone,...
Tags: RealNetworks Inc., RollingStone.com, Wenner Media, Schwartz, Internet, Companies, RNWK, Industry Moves, Media, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2008-12-08
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