Tribune
[under development]
Earlier this year Chicago-based Tribune
Group absorbed the Los Angeles Times-Mirror group.
The empire extends across
newspaper and magazine publishing, online services, sports teams,
printing and directories, television and radio broadcasting and
production, and property. It's currently disposing of some interests,
notably through sale of the Times-Mirror magazines to AOL Time Warner.
studies
The Tribune Group, centred around the
Chicago Tribune, was given a kick-start by funds from Cyrus McCormick -
the robber baron who built International Harvester. His family -
devoutly right wing (notoriously isolationist in the 1930s and 40's) ran
the company until late last century.
Arguably the best biography is The
Colonel: The Life & Legend of Robert McCormick 1880-1955
(Boston, Houghton Mifflin 97) by Richard Norton Smith. Cissy: The
Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson (New York, Simon
& Schuster 98) by Ralph Merkin deals with the Colonel's equally zany
niece. Print historian John Tebbel's An American Dynasty
(Westport, Greenwood 68) is unfortunately out of print. Joseph Gies in The
Colonel of Chicago (New York, Dutton 79) and Lloyd Wendt in The
Chicago Tribune: The Rise Of A Great American Newspaper (Chicago,
Rand McNally 79) buff the legend.
Times-Mirror, centred on the Los
Angeles Times,
enjoyed power on the US west coast equivalent to that of Fairfax in
Australia.
David Halberstam's classic The
Powers That Be (New York, Knopf 79) is a picture by the leading US
journalist of the Washington Post, CBS, New York Times
and LA Times at the peak of the 'television age'.
It's
greatly superior to the profile of the Chandlers and the LA Times in the
more recent Paper Tigers (London,
Heinemann 93) by Nicholas Coleridge and Robert Gottlieb's Thinking
Big: The Story of the LA Times (New York, Dutton, 77).
holdings
Television broadcasting
WPIX - New York
KTLA - Los Angeles
WGN - Chicago
WPHL - Philadelphia
WLVI - Boston
KDAF - Dallas
WGNX - Atlanta
KHTV - Houston
KTZZ - Seattle
WBZL - Miami - Ft. Lauderdale
KWGN - Denver
KTXL - Sacramento
WXIN - Indianapolis
KSWB - San Diego
WTIC - Hartford/New Haven
WTXX-Hartford
WXMI - Grand Rapids
WGNO - New Orleans
WPMT - Harrisburg
WNOL - New Orleans Cable
television
CLTV - Chicago area 24 hour news and sports
TV Food Network (31%)
CFN 13 - 24 hour local news channel -
joint venture between Tribune and AOL Time Warner
Radio
WGN - AM (Chicago)
KKHK - FM (Denver)
KOSI - FM (Denver)
KEZW - AM (Denver)
Daily Newspapers
Chicago Tribune
LA Times
Stamford Advocate
The Baltimore Sun
Greenwich Time
The Hartford Courant
La Opinion (50%, Spanish language newspaper in Southern California)
Allentown Morning Call
Newsday (Long Island)
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
South Florida Newspaper Network
Daily Press (Virginia) Syndication
services
JDTV - television programming information
Ultimate TV - Web site offering TV listings
Los Angeles Times Syndicate (syndication service)
Los Angles Times - Washington Post News Service (50% with Washington
Post)
Online Publications
Black Voices
Exito - South Florida Hispanic community news
Relcon - listing of Chicago area apartments
US/Express - weekly entertainment news
Digital City Atlanta, Boston, Chicago,
Denver, Hampton Roads,
Los Angeles, Orlando,
South Florida
cars.com - national Web site for vehicle listings - partnership with Washington Post
apartments.com - national Web site for apartment listings -
partnership with Washington Post
CareerPath.com
(16%) - online employment information
MD Consult (partial ownership - online information for physicians)
Consumer Magazines (most
to be sold to AOL Time Warner)
Field & Stream
Freeze
Golf Magazine
Outdoor Life
Popular Science
Salt Water Sportsman
Ski
Skiing Magazine
Skiing Trade News
SNAP
Snowboard Life
Ride BMX
The Sporting News
Today’s Homeowner
TransWorld Skateboarding
TransWorld Snowboarding
Verge
Yachting Magazine
Warp
Specialist publishing and online
services
Everyday Learning/ Creative Publications
Ideal/Instructional Fair Publishing Group Landoll
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group
Allen Communication (technology )
Apartment Search (apartment listings)
Jeppesen Sanderson (aeronautical)
ListingLink (real estate listing service)
Mosby - Year Book (health sciences)
StayWell (health services)
Sports
The Wright Group
Chicago Cubs
Tribune Ventures: Investments and partnerships:
America Online (1.5%)
CheckFree (1.0%) - electronic payment processor
Digital City (20.1%) - local interactive content
Excite (4.3%) - World Wide Web search engine
ImageBuilder Software (23%) - software developer
Discourse Technologies (14%) - multimedia education products
Infobeat (13%) - customized content
iVillage (8%) - online content
Lightspan Partnership (7%) - new media education products
Open Market (3%) - electronic commerce
Peapod (10%) - online grocery shopping service
Picture Network International (NA) - online content
The Learning Company (11%) - multimedia education products
SoftKey International - digital education products
StarSight TeleCast
Interealty (25%) - real estate information
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information services (50%) - news wire
Cybermeals
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