Georgia Newsroom (Free subscription) | yesterday
The New York Observer The New York Observer’s John Koblin took this photo of newspapers yesterday afternoon at the stand of Sam Zell’s beleaguered Tribune Company. Late in the day … plenty to choose from … does anybody read these things anymore?
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Another Tribune Company exec departs… Clark Morehouse is the latest to leave Sam Zell's house, exiting as head of Tribune Entertainment to join local digital broadcast network .2 (as in "dot-2"), B&C reports . The network launches December 8 and offers entertainment programming on stations' digital channels. Morehouse is the latest in a string of high level departures on Tribune's broadcast side (the...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Well if it isn't one of those little anecdotes could be seen as a neat metaphor for the entire business of finding neat metaphors to explain large global topics! Tribune Company COO (and ex-Clear...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has downgraded the following ratings on Tribune Company (TRB): --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'CCC' from 'B-';
One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Agriprocessors identity theft puts data of 230-plus at risk By GRANT SCHULTE © 2008, Des Moines Register and Tribune Company The Social Security numbers used to employ illegal immigrants at Postville’s meatpacking plant were stolen from people in at least 25 states, including two people from Iowa, and from 38 people who are dead, an analysis by The [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
This is funny, if only in a non-funny way: Perhaps Clear Channel ( NYSE: CCU ) Radio is concerned about Sam Zell poaching more of the company's executives to run interactive at The Tribune Company (those poaching always announced it in zany Zell-esque releases from Tribune). The radio network has locked in several senior execs to multi-year contracts. Among those who signed up for the long-haul is...
The Final Score (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
And I'm guessing that Mark Spitz is not in a real good mood right now. Here's some nice Tribune Company coverage of Phelps' big night....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
And we thought our credit card bills were bad. Sam Zell 's Tribune company released its quarterly results yesterday. The results included $3.8 billion used "to write down the Company's publishing goodwill and newspaper masthead intangible assets." (That's more than three times what NBC has sold in Olympic ads, just saying.) Portfolio points us to Alan Mutter who took the time to do the math and says...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Novus Print Media Network, one of the top ten media agencies in the U.S., and Tribune Media Net, the national advertising sales organization for major market newspapers within the Tribune Company, (NYSE:TRB) announced an expanded partnership to provide local online advertising to Novus Network's roster of direct response, national, and retail clients.
Newspaper Innovation (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Chicago free daily RedEye (Tribune Company) underwent a ‘redesign’ according to Editor & Publisher. God is in the details, as the saying goes, and this is also true for this ‘redesign’ which mainly concerns the logo where the capitals (left - old) have been changed to a lowercase font (right - new). More important, however, is that [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
-- Sun-Times Media Group : The Tribune Company's Chicago rival is outsourcing its print and online classified ad sales to New York-based Classifieds Plus. The effort is part of a $50 million cost-cutting plan. The move follows a pilot program with Classifieds Plus and the Sun-Times News Group unit launched a pilot program with Classifieds Plus at its suburban Fox Valley Publications division last...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Michael Silver, a former veteran exec with the The Tribune Company for two decades, is taking on the new post of executive director of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. The post is described as "advisory," though Silver will also be responsible for the management and oversight of the agreements between the Newspaper Consortium's members and Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ). As the point of contact for the members,...
Joe Scott 3: Body Politic (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Billionaire businessman Sam Zell plays liege lord and Tribune Company executes his orders with the Los Angeles Times now reduced to a hapless vassal. Sure, the Times’ plight is about declining revenue that reflects economic realities. But the once proud, Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper which first rose to serious national prominence under Otis Chandler is a step closer now to becoming a virtual wasteland....
DealBook (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
For Mark Cuban, the owner of the N.B.A.’s Dallas Mavericks, buying the Tribune Company’s Chicago Cubs is the latest in a long line of projects. (He’s not alone in the expensive quest; four other individuals and groups have given the debt-laden Tribune Company nonbinding offers of at least $1 billion for the team, its stake [...]
Foul Balls (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
It hasn't exactly been a secret that current Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has long been interested in owning the Chicago Cubs. Whether he's sitting in the bleachers downing beers with the fans, or next to the Cubs dugout with the Tribune Company brass, Mark has made his intentions pretty clear. The only question is whether or not Bud Selig and his buddies would ever allow Cuban to enter
