The Media Drop

Over at BusinessWeekOnline, Steve Rosenbush is is covering the story that came out recently about TheKnot possibly being snagged by Target. While the core competencies of the companies don’t necessarily look like they mesh at first, Target surely wants a bigger piece of the online retail pie, and taking a bite out of an area […]

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Lexington, Kentucky’s WKYT Channel 27 reports this week that the Winchester Sun has been sold to Schurz Communications, based out of Indiana.

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The Los Angeles Times‘ Sallie Hofmeister reports on the number of complaints from the public this week to the FCC regarding Adelphia Communications’ pending purchase by Time Warner and Comast.

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The McKinney Courier-Gazette, along with other Hartman Newspapers, L.P. publications, have been acquired by American Community Newspapers.

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The Leavenworth Times has the story about the acquisition of its parent, Liberty Group Publishing, by Fortress Investment Group.

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Offline/online vicinity-pinging stalking tool Dodgeball has announced this afternoon that it has been purchased by Google, further proving that Google will indeed take over the world. [/sarcasm] For those not familiar with it, Dodgeball is a meatspace tool that allows folks to get pinged with text messages whenever friends are in your general vicinity, and […]

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On Friday, Idaho Falls-based KIFI announced that its parent, The Post Company, had sold the television station to Missouri’s News-Press & Gazette company.

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Should Cablevision be able to jump in on the bidding for Adelphia Communications, the financially troubled cableco? That seems to be an important question of the day, according to a Denver Business Journal story.
Cable television providers are already existing in semi-monopolies (or actual ones in their own little markets), and the expansion […]

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Perhaps you’ve heard the news that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had been sold to Lee Enterprises, a national publisher who tends to stick to the Midwest. And yes, the rest of the P-D siblings are coming along as owner Pulitzer Inc. is included in the acquisition. For those of you not so big […]

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The Associated Press reported a short time ago that the Justice Department is working on a “preliminary investigation” into the New York Times Company’s acquisition of 49% of Metro Boston. The concern here is that the free daily would “compete” alongside NYTCo’s Boston Globe newspaper with the rival Boston Herald.
Also noted is […]

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