Tribune Group: Holdings

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    1. Holdings
      1. Television
      2. Radio
      3. Syndication
      4. Online
      5. Consumer magazines (most to be sold to AOL Time Warner)
      6. Specialist publishing
      7. Sports
      8. Investments

Holdings

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

The group embraces -

  • Television
  • Radio
  • Daily newspapers
  • Syndication
  • Online
  • Consumer magazines
  • Specialist publishing
  • Sports
  • Investments

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
  • subsection heading icon daily newspapers
  • 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