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Tribune Group: Holdings

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Holdings

Holdings

This listing is indicative only: some holdings are being sold as the Tribune absorbs the Times Mirror group.

Television

Tribune owns and operates 26 television stations: 19 affiliated with Time Warner's The WB Network, six affiliated with Murdoch's Fox and one affiliated with Disney's ABC.

WPIX New York
KTLA Los Angeles
WGN Chicago
WPHL Philadelphia
WLVI Boston
KDAF Dallas
WGNX Atlanta
KHTV Houston
KTZZ Seattle
KTWB Seattle
WBZL Miami - Ft. Lauderdale
KWGN Denver
KTXL Sacramento
WXIN Indianapolis
KSWB San Diego
WTIC and WTXX Hartford/New Haven
WXMI Grand Rapids
WGNO New Orleans
WNOL New Orleans
WPMT Harrisburg
WATL Atlanta
WTTK Kokomo
PLR-TV (WB11) St Louis
KWBP-TV (WB32) Portland

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 - super station
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Chicago Tribune
LA Times
Stamford Advocate
Baltimore Sun
Greenwich Time
Hartford Courant
La Opinion (50%, Spanish language newspaper in Southern California)
Hoy
Allentown Morning Call
Newsday (Long Island)
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
South Florida Newspaper Network
Daily Press (Virginia)
amNewYork - free metro

Syndication

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

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)

Chicago
Distinction
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

Everyday Learning/Creative Publications
Ideal/Instructional Fair Publishing Group
Landoll
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group
Allen Communication (technology )
Apartment Search (apartment listings)
Jeppesen Sanderson (aeronautical and mapping) - sold to Boing for US$1.5bn
ListingLink (real estate listing service)
Mosby - Year Book (health sciences)
StayWell (health services)

Sports

The Wright Group
Chicago Cubs

Investments

America Online (1.5%)
CareerBuilder (with Knight-Ridder)
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 - remainder held by Knight-Ridder, Cox and Advance
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information services (50%) - news service in partnership with Knight-Ridder
Cybermeals
minority stake (with Carlyle Group) in online textbook discounter varsitybooks.com