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• Tribune Goes On A Diet?No AP News For One Week

  PaidContent - 2009-11-03

  The Tribune Company’s chain of newspapers will try to see if they can do without the Associated Press news feed next week, as the bankrupt publisher tries to find ways it can manage costs, The Chicago Tribune reported via mathewi. The Tribune’s trial separation from the AP starts next...

  Tags: Tribune Co., Associated Press, Litigation, Workforce Management, Construction, Personal Finance, TVs, Business Operations, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Tribune, David Kaplan

• New York Broadcasters Test for DTV Readiness Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28th

  - 2008-10-27

  ION Media, NBC, Telemundo, APTS, ABC, CBS, Educational Broadcasting, Fox, NYC Media, Tribune and Univision Unite for Soft Analog Shutoffs in Number One TV Market ION Media Networks:[TABLE OMITTED]

  Tags: ABC Inc., broadcasting, CBS Corp., NBC Universal Inc., Tribune Co., TVs

• Gannett acquires a majority stake in CareerBuilder from Tribune Company

  - 2008-09-03

  MCLEAN, Va. & CHICAGO -- Gannett and Tribune Company announced today that Gannett has acquired an additional 10 percent stake in CareerBuilder from Tribune for $135 million. The acquisition gives Gannett a 50.8 percent controlling interest in CareerBuilder, the U.S.'s largest online job site. "CareerBuilder is a terrific company,...

  Tags: CareerBuilder, FINANCE, Gannett Co. Inc., INTERNET, Investment, MARKETING, Tribune Co., TVs

• Cablevision to buy Newsday in 650 mln dlr deal

  - 2008-05-12

  NEW YORK AFP — US cable television operator Cablevision is buying the New York daily Newsday from media group Tribune Company in a 650-million-dollar deal, the companies announced Monday. According to the terms of the agreement, Cablevision Systems Corporation will acquire about 97 percent of Newsday Media Group, known...

  Tags: Cable, Cablevision Systems Corp., NETWORKING, Newsday, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Tribune Co., TVs

• Daily News matches rival Murdoch's bid for Newsday

  - 2008-04-26

  NEW YORK AFP — Rival US media titans have launched a bidding war for Newsday, the New York-area paper reported Saturday as Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman matched Rupert Murdoch's 580-million-dollar bid. Zuckerman's deal would involve a joint venture that would see Newsday parent Tribune Company owning approximately five...

  Tags: Government, Newsday, Regulations, Tribune Co., TVs

• Who Knew? Two New at NATPE (Broadcasting and Cable)

  - 2008-02-04

  Syndicators rarely use the annual National Association of Television Program Executives NATPE convention to launch a new show anymore, but last week, two new entries popped up. Independent syndicator Program Partners surprised syndication watchers by announcing a new talk show starring American sweetheart Marie...

  Tags: ABC Inc., broadcasting, cable, Disney Corp., Tribune Co., TVs

• Changes for the Media Market: Will Deregulation Lead to M&A?

  - 2007-11-19

  Kevin J. Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has announced a plan that would relax regulations that prevent companies from owning multiple media outlets in a single city. The restrictions, intended to preserve a diversity of news reporting, prevent a single company from owning both a newspaper and...

  Tags: deregulation, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, M&A, MARKETING, media, Regulations, Tribune Co., TVs

• Breaking the news: it's not the Internet that's killing newspapers. It's the equity-chasing investors and their friends at the FCC who have put outsize profits before a free press

  - 2007-03-01

  Senate reconfirmation hearings tend to be predictable affairs, marked by polite give-and-take and senatorial grandstanding, but generally free of surprise plot twists. And so it was supposed to go last September 12, when Federal Communications Commission FCC chairman Kevin Martin appeared before the Commerce Committee. In March 2005, following the...

  Tags: blog, Chicago, equity, FCC, Government, Internet, investor, Los Angeles Times, MSM, Tribune Co., TVs

• Idea developer.(Business of Life)(Friedman Properties Ltd.- Albert M. Friedman)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-04

  Byline: Dan Weissmann Albert M. Friedman, 58, is president and CEO of Friedman Properties Ltd., which specializes in redeveloping historic buildings, especially in River North, including the Medinah Temple and Tree Studios. How he stays updated: Channel-hops through TV news-"As soon...

  Tags: developer, New York Times Co., Tribune Co., TVs, Wall Street Journal

• Tribune Names New Publisher at Los Angeles Times David Hiller succeeds Jeff Johnson Scott Smith adds Chicago Tribune publisher responsibilities.

  - 2006-10-06

  M2 PRESSWIRE-6 October 2006-Tribune Company: Tribune Names New Publisher at Los Angeles Times David Hiller succeeds Jeff Johnson Scott Smith adds Chicago Tribune publisher responsibilitiesC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05102006 CHICAGO - Tribune Publishing, a division of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB),...

  Tags: Chicago, INTERNET, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Co., TVs