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Media General sells TV stations in Fla., La.
Richmond-based newspaper publisher and television station operator Media General Inc. has completed the sale of two more of the five television stations the company is divesting. Dallas-based Hoak Media Corp. purchased ABC station WMBB in Panama City,...Tags: Television Industry, Consumer Electronics Industry, Sales, Corporate Officers
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Daily Progress cuts 25 jobs with printing shift
Twenty-five pressroom and mailroom jobs are being eliminated at The Daily Progress, leaving the Charlottesville newspaper with about 95 employees. The paper is shifting the printing and packaging of its 30,000-circulation daily and Sunday newspaper to...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Investments, Albemarle County, Newspaper and Magazine, Hanover County
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L.A. Times To Cut 250 Positions
The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and Web news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper's editor said in a memo Wednesday. The move followed an announcement last week that...Tags: Tampa, Labor Day, Newspaper and Magazine, Tribune Company, Employees
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Bryan to retire as exec at Media General
Media General says board chairman J. Stewart Bryan III plans to retire as an executive officer of the newspaper publisher and television station operator. The Richmond-based company said Wednesday the change is expected before the end of the third...Tags: Television Industry, Walter Williams
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Media General to sell TV station to UGA
Media General says it is selling TV station WNEG in Toccoa, Georgia, to the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed in the third or fourth quarter of 2008. Terms of...Tags: Television Industry, Consumer Electronics Industry, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Sales, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Media General to cut 11% of work force
Media General Inc., the newspaper publisher and television station operator, said yesterday that it would cut its work force by nearly 11 percent by October to reduce operating costs. The 750 job cuts are paired with other operating cost reductions, the...Tags: Television Industry, Budgets and Budgeting
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Harbinger buys stake in Corn Products
Tribune reporterHarbinger Capital Partners, a big investment firm known for buying into distressed companies and pushing management for change, has taken a significant stake in Corn Products International Inc., a maker of corn-based sweeteners. Despite Harbinger's...Tags: New York Times, Television Industry, Corn Products International Incorporated, Investments, BB&T Corporation
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Weaker earnings keep heat on Tribune
Tribune Co.'s second-quarter earnings report on Thursday didn't provide much respite from what is turning out to be a long, hot summer for Dennis FitzSimons, the media company's embattled chairman and chief executive. Tribune profit and revenue fell,...Tags: Prices, Consumer Electronics Industry, Newspaper and Magazine, Tribune Company, Earnings
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Judge's ruling a victory for newspaper
South Florida Sun-SentinelA federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make public the names of FEMA inspectors and the addresses of disaster aid recipients in a lawsuit brought by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The newspaper filed suit in March 2005 after the Federal...Tags: Bill Nelson, Judges, Censorship, Newspaper and Magazine, Tribune Company
Jul 16, 2008
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Jul 8, 2008
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Jul 3, 2008
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Jun 25, 2008
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Jun 25, 2008
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May 23, 2008
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May 6, 2008
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Jul 14, 2006
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Apr 15, 2006
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
