Entertainment & Arts
Publishers say that advertisers are demanding a package deal with Internet exposure.
Nov. 10, 1999
Publishing: Purchase of U.S. unit of Britain’s Emap, for $505 million plus warrants, continues the trend of media consolidation.
July 2, 2001
Business
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.’
Oct. 31, 2000
Archives
Primedia Inc. plans to sell its magazine unit, with 70 titles that include Motor Trend and Surfer, in a transaction that would leave the company a distributor of free auto and home guides.
Feb. 10, 2007
Primedia Inc., publisher of Seventeen, New York and other magazines, said it plans to sell its publishing group that includes Weekly Reader and World Almanac to reduce debt and consolidate operations.
April 23, 1999
Special-interest magazine publisher Primedia Inc. is consolidating its media trade publications and conference businesses into a new subsidiary that will be run by Steven Brill, the entrepreneur who founded Brill’s Content magazine.
Jan. 5, 2001
Only six months after Brill Media Holdings and Primedia Inc. executives announced their partnership, a spokesman said the two sides have decided to go their separate ways.
Oct. 16, 2001
Internet: New CEO Tom Rogers believes firm can succeed with specialized Web sites and programming.
Dec. 1, 1999
Technology and the Internet
Primedia Inc., the publisher of magazines such as New York and the owner of Internet directory About.com, said it would sell its Sprinks online advertising division to Web search company Google Inc.
Oct. 25, 2003
Primedia Inc., whose properties run the gamut from New York Magazine to American Baby magazine, moved Wednesday to reposition itself as a new-media conglomerate by restructuring its business lines, separating its Internet investments from its more traditional magazines and other products.
Feb. 3, 2000