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Sinclair Telecable buys radio stake
Sound + Vision. US company Sinclair Telecable is to acquire the remaining 50.1% stake in Emmis Austin Radio Broadcasting…
Mediaset prepares for battle
Sound + Vision. Mediaset, the Italian broadcaster, is to create a Netherlands-based holding company to become the parent of…
PRH buys F+W books
Books. Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired the book publishing assets of bankrupt publisher F+W Media for $5.6m.…
Can Time Out make it?
Exactly three years ago, Time Out magazine promoted its £145m IPO by telling would-be investors that the UK’s…
Leafbuyer buys booming cannabis exhibition
Events. Leafbuyer Technologies Inc, the five-year-old, Colorado-based digital information service and marketplace for cannabis users, has agreed to purchase…
Axel Springer steps-up at Purplebricks
B2C. Axel Springer has more than doubled its stake in the UK’s largest online real estate agent Purplebricks, from…
Motor Presse buy-back
Magazines. Two successors of the founding Pietsch family have acquired Gruner and Jahr’s 60% stake in MotorPresse, of…
SureSwift acquires tech news
B2B information. Tech private equity firm SureSwift Capital Inc has acquired TECHdotMN, an independent online publisher of local Minnesota…
Paxton buys Arkansas locals
News. The privately-owned, 123-year-old Paxton Media Group, of Paducah, Kentucky, has acquired four local newspapers based in Arkansas…
Bakersfield Californian sold to…
News. Canadian news publisher Steven Malkowich has bought the Bakersfield Californian newspaper, previously family-owned for 122 years through the…