List of Advance subsidiaries
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This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications Inc.
Local media groups
[edit]The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local
Advance Media New York
[edit]- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
- Syracuse.com
- NYup.com
- New York Cannabis Insider
- Central New York Magazine
Advance Ohio
[edit]- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) / Cleveland.com
Alabama Media Group
[edit]
- AL.com and The Lede
- Alabama Education Lab
- Red Clay Media
- It's a Southern Thing
- This is Alabama
- People of Alabama
MassLive Media
[edit]- The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts) / MassLive.com
- MLive.com
- The Ann Arbor News (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
- Bay City Times (Bay City, Michigan)
- The Flint Journal (Flint, Michigan)
- Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
- Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson, Michigan)
- Muskegon Chronicle (Muskegon, Michigan)
- Saginaw News (Saginaw, Michigan)
NJ Advance Media
[edit]- NJ.com
- The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
- The Times (Trenton, New Jersey)
- The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey)
- South Jersey Times (South Jersey)
- Hunterdon County Democrat (Hunterdon County, New Jersey)
- Hunterdon Observer
- Warren Reporter (Warren County, New Jersey)
- Ledger Somerset Observer (Somerset County, New Jersey)
- Star-Gazette
- Ledger Local
- Suburban News
- Jersey's Best
- The Express-Times (Easton, Pennsylvania) / LehighValleyLive.com
Oregonian Media Group
[edit]- The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) / OregonLive.com
- Here is Oregon
PA Media Group
[edit]- The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) / PennLive.com
- Penn Studios
Staten Island Media Group
[edit]- Staten Island Advance (Staten Island, New York) / SILive.com
American City Business Journals
[edit]Leaders Group
[edit]Advance Publications purchased Street & Smith Publications, Inc. in August 1959.[1][2] The Street & Smith trademark was resurrected in 2017, by Advance Publications' subsidiary American City Business Journals, for a series of sports annuals, and transferred later to a newly formed Leaders Group subsidiary of Advance Publications, creating a standalone sports focused division within Advance.
Condé Nast
[edit]- Allure
- Architectural Digest
- Bon Appétit
- Condé Nast Traveler
- GQ
- The New Yorker
- Vanity Fair
- Vogue
- Wired
Digital
[edit]Other related websites/companies
[edit]- Street & Smith, acquired 1959
- POP, acquired 2013[7][8]
- reddit.com, originally part of Condé Nast, moved to Advance Publications in 2011, spun off in early 2012
- Charter Communications shareholder following May 2016 merger of Bright House Networks
- The IRONMAN Group, acquired March 2020[9]
- Warner Bros. Discovery, carried over from its predecessor Discovery, Inc.
- Turnitin an Internet-based plagiarism detection service.
Former and defunct divisions
[edit]- RCA purchased Random House in 1965 and later sold it to Advance Publications in 1980.[10] Advance sold Random House to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1998.[11]
- Advance Entertainment Corporation (uplinker and programmer of WWOR EMI Service during 1996)
- Newhouse News Service, bearing the name of Advance Publications founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was founded in 1961 and closed in late 2008, as a cost-cutting measure due to the 2008 financial crisis; based in Washington, D.C., its staff served as a national news bureau to all publications in the Advance portfolio[12]
- Religion News Service (sold 2011 to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association)[13]
- Parade (sold December 2014)
- Fairchild Fashion Media (sold August 2014 to Penske Media Corporation)
- The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com (sold 2019 to Georges Media Group)
Former television stations
[edit]- Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
- Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by Advance or Newhouse.
| Media market | State | Station | Purchased | Sold | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | Alabama | WAPI-TV | 1956 | 1980 | [a] |
| St. Louis | Missouri | KTVI | 1955 | 1980 | |
| Elmira | New York | WSYE-TV ** | 1956 | 1980 | |
| Syracuse | WSYR-TV ** | 1950 | 1980 | ||
| Portland | Oregon | KOIN | 1953 | 1977 | |
| Harrisburg | Pennsylvania | WTPA ** | 1953 | 1980 |
- ^ Known as WAPT from 1953 to 1958.
References
[edit]- ^ "Advertising: Street Smith Deal? S. I. Newhouse, the newspaper publisher who recently moved into the magazine field, is reportedly negotiating to purchase Street Smith Publications, Inc." The New York Times (August 12, 1959).
- ^ "Advertising: Street & Smith to Newhouse," The New York Times (August 26, 1959).
- ^ "The Esports Observer now fully integrated with SBJ" (Press release). Street & Smiths Sports Business Journal. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ Takahashi, Dean (October 25, 2018). "Advance Publications buys The Esports Observer as a new sport emerges". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ "Leaders Group, Parent Company of Sports Business Journal, Agrees to Acquire SportTechie". Leaders Group (Press release). October 7, 2021. Archived from the original on November 24, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ Takahashi, Dean (October 10, 2018). "Advance Publications acquires stake in esports and games analytics firm Newzoo". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ Cook, John. (2013, January 16). "Advance Publications buys Seattle digital agency POP," GeekWire.com. Accessed: February 26, 2015.
- ^ "Home page". Advance. July 20, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ "Advance completes acquisition of The IRONMAN Group". Advance. July 20, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ "RCA History". bobsamerica. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
- ^ "The World: Bertelsmann Swallows Random House; American Pop Culture, Foreign-Owned". The New York Times. March 29, 1998. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ^ Siegel, Fern (July 30, 2008). "Newhouse News Service Shutters After 47 Years". MediaDailyNews. Media Post. Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ^ "Religion News Service – Press Releases – Religion News Service Enters Nonprofit Partnership with Religion Newswriters Foundation". Archived from the original on October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016.