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Cogeco buys Canadian radio stations for $18.5m
Broadcast. Cogeco Media, which owns and operates 23 radio stations across Quebec and Ontario, has reached an agreement to…
Marchex Acquires Callcap Call Monitoring for $35m
B2B information. Nasdaq-quoted Marchex, Inc, a provider of call analytics that drive, measure, and convert callers into customers, has acquired…
Kingfisher Media MBO
Publishing. Kingfisher Media, a Gateshead, UK-based publishing company that produces some 70 visitor guides to cities and regions across…
Nineteen Group grows with private equity
Exhibitions. The UK-based Nineteen Group has acquired Western Business Exhibitions’ 10 events, including The Fire Safety Event, The Security…
What next for RELX?
The Reed Business Information (RBI) division of the £32bn RELX Group is selling its Netherlands agricultural business media…
Is it the end for Centaur Media?
Everybody in UK media likes Centaur: employees, journalists and even long-suffering investors who have stuck with its under-performing…
Clarion Events may divest PennWell media and…?
B2B information. Clarion, the London-based tradeshow operator (owned by Blackstone private equity) that acquired PennWell in April for $300m,…
Johnston Press in debt for equity rescue
News. Debt-laden UK regional publisher Johnston Press (JP) is under new ownership after its bondholders agreed to wipe out…
Progressive Business acquired by BridgeTower
B2B information. North Carolina based Progressive Business Media is being acquired by Minneapolis based BridgeTower Media. Financial terms were not…
Vivendi agrees terms for Editis takeover
Books. French group Vivendi has agreed to buy Editis, France’s second largest book publisher, from Grupo Planeta of Spain…