The Jefferson-Eppes Trophy is an American college football trophy given to the winner of irregularly played games between the Florida State Seminoles of Florida State University and the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia . The trophy was created on the suggestion of former FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte , after Virginia became the first ACC program to defeat Florida State on November 2, 1995. To that point, the Seminoles had run up a perfect 29–0 record through their first 3½ years of Atlantic Coast Conference play.
72-594: Virginia and Florida State played each other yearly between 1992 and 2006, but the game never became a major rivalry (e.g., called "one of the lesser known rivalries in college football" by the Orlando Sentinel ). The annual game was not preserved by the ACC when its divisional play began, and the Cavaliers and Seminoles began facing off much more rarely. In recent decades the games are sporadic but competitive: since 2005, Virginia
144-444: A Delaware bankruptcy court . Oaktree Capital Management , JPMorgan Chase and Angelo, Gordon & Co. , which were the company's senior debt holders, assumed control of Tribune's properties upon the company's exit from bankruptcy on December 31, 2012. Coincident with emergence from bankruptcy, company stock began trading as an over-the-counter security under the symbol TRBAA. In December 2014, over-the-counter trading ended and
216-489: A "broadcast management company" (later named The Other Company). On January 31, 2008, Tribune Company announced it would purchase real estate leased from TMCT, LLC, which included properties used by the Los Angeles Times , Newsday , Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant . The company received an option to purchase the real estate for $ 175 million through the 2006 restructuring of TMCT, LLC. In addition, Tribune announced
288-621: A 12.5% stake in The WB Television Network in August 1995; the company had ten of its 16 stations affiliated with the network (including five that were signed as charter affiliates through The WB's initial 1993 affiliation deal with Tribune). Tribune invested $ 21 million in The WB in March 1997, which increased its equity interest in the network to 21.9%. In November 1994, Tribune Broadcasting formed
360-648: A 24-hour local cable news channel for the Chicago area. Online editions of Tribune's newspapers were developed starting in 1995, with the Chicago Tribune ' s digital edition launching in 1996. Also in 1996, Tribune (holding a 20% interest) created a joint venture with American Online (which held an 80% interest) called Digital City, Inc. to set up a series of Digital City websites to provide interactive local news and information services. By 1997, Tribune Publishing had only four daily newspapers remaining in its portfolio:
432-548: A hand press. The Tribune constructed its first building, a four-story structure at Dearborn and Madison Streets, in 1869. The building was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, along with most of the city. The Tribune resumed printing two days later with an editorial declaring "Chicago Shall Rise Again." Joseph Medill , a native Ohioan who acquired an interest in the Tribune in 1855, gained full control of
504-399: A high debt load related to the company's privatization and a sharp downturn in newspaper advertising revenue, Tribune filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . Company plans originally called for it to emerge from bankruptcy by May 31, 2010, but the company would end up in protracted bankruptcy proceedings for another four years. With the company's overall debt totaling $ 13 billion, it was
576-456: A joint venture with Knight-Ridder, CareerBuilder , that same year. After the 2001 September 11 attacks , the media sector suffered a greater decrease in advertising revenue. This forced a 10% reduction in staff companywide and a $ 151.9 million restructuring charge. In 2002 and 2003, Tribune Broadcasting bought four additional television stations, increasing its total television holdings to 26 stations, some of which were acquired via trades of
648-663: A large margin, 72% to 28%, to keep the Eppes statue. The Florida State administration moved its location in 2018. However, in January 2021 FSU President John Thrasher ordered Eppes' name be removed from the College of Criminology building and the Eppes statue permanently removed from campus display. The announcement came after Thrasher decided to accept the recommendations from the President's Task Force on Anti-Racism, Equality, and Inclusion . The trophy
720-800: A partnership with several minority partners, including Quincy Jones , to form Qwest Broadcasting. Qwest operated as a separate company from Tribune (which owned stations in a few markets where Tribune had already owned stations, including WATL in Atlanta, which was operated alongside Tribune-owned WGNX ); Tribune entered into a new business sector when it formed Tribune Education in 1993. The sector grew and provided high profit margins. Through 1996, Tribune used $ 400 million to purchase several publishers of education material: Contemporary Books , Inc., The Wright Group, Everyday Learning Corporation, Jamestown Publishers, Inc., Educational Publishing Corporation, NTC Publishing Group and Janson Publications. In 1996, this group
792-420: A subsidiary, McCormick-Patterson. The company entered broadcasting in 1924 by leasing WDAP, one of Chicago's first radio stations. Tribune later changed the station's call letters to WGN , reflecting the Tribune ' s nickname, "World's Greatest Newspaper." WGN was purchased by the company in 1926 and went on to become prominent in the radio industry. In 1925, the company completed its new headquarters,
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#1732855471055864-532: Is 3–2 against Florida State. Virginia won the most recent trophy game in 2019, and currently possesses the Jefferson-Eppes Trophy in Charlottesville . Unless they meet in an ACC Championship Game , Florida State and Virginia will not match up on the gridiron again until 2025. This football trophy was created in 1995 by Florida State president Sandy D'Alemberte and was named for former President of
936-557: Is composed of an intricately wrought silver pitcher presented to the city of Tallahassee, Florida by Eppes in 1842 and set upon a wood base made of remains of the McGuffey Ash, which was once the largest tree on the Grounds of the University of Virginia but suffered a fatal tree disease in 1990. The trophy was designed by Ryan Parker. Orlando Sentinel The Orlando Sentinel is
1008-737: Is not now and never will be." Tribune Company Tribune Media Company , also known as Tribune Company , was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago , Illinois . Through Tribune Broadcasting , Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 television stations across the United States and operating three additional stations through local marketing agreements . It owned national basic cable channel/ superstation WGN America , regional cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV) and Chicago radio station WGN . Investment interests include
1080-569: The Chicago Tribune ' s RedEye edition in 2003, followed by an investment in AM New York . That same year, Tribune pushed for the FCC to loosen its regulations barring cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets (television and/or radio) in a single market. Tribune would have to sell either a newspaper or television station in Los Angeles, New York City and Hartford while its combination of
1152-716: The Chicago Tribune , the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel , the Orlando Sentinel and the Daily Press . Tribune also set up its Tribune Ventures division to acquire stakes in newer media businesses. During the middle of that year, Tribune Ventures purchased interests in companies such as AOL (owning 4%), electronic payment specialist CheckFree Corporation (owning 5%), search engine company Excite , Inc. (owning 7%), Mercury Mail, Inc. (owning 13%), Open Market , Inc. (owning 6%), and Peapod LP (owning 13%). Also that year,
1224-647: The European Union because their websites lacked compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation act. According to one listing, some of the Sentinel ' s predecessors are: Editorially, the Sentinel originally tilted conservative. From 1952 to 2004, it endorsed Republicans in every election save for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. However, while many of Central Florida's surrounding communities remained ostensibly conservative, demographic and political shifts in
1296-650: The FSU Legacy Walk in 2002. Former Florida State president D'Alemberte also spearheaded this effort. The Eppes statue later became controversial , in 2016, due to Eppes' history of expanding his slave ownership to encompass several working cotton plantations prior to the American Civil War , supporting the Confederacy in various ways, and organizing night watches to catch slaves in the streets of territorial Tallahassee. Despite this history, FSU students voted by
1368-634: The Food Network , in which the company had a 31% share. Prior to the August 2014 spin-off of the company's publishing division into Tribune Publishing , Tribune Media was the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher behind the Gannett Company , with ten daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune , Los Angeles Times , Orlando Sentinel , Sun-Sentinel and The Baltimore Sun , and several commuter tabloids . In 2007, investors bought
1440-671: The Meredith Corporation in exchange for KCPQ-TV in Seattle in March 1999. Later that year, the station purchased WEWB in Albany, New York and WBDC in Washington, D.C. Tribune Interactive, Inc. was incorporated to handle all the various websites for its publishing, television and radio, and newspaper properties. During the 1999 fiscal year, Tribune racked up $ 1.47 billion in profits on total revenues of $ 2.92 billion, in part from gains made on
1512-634: The New York Daily News saw multiple employee strikes. In 1980, the Daily News added an afternoon edition to go head-to-head with the New York Post ; this expansion failed, with the newspaper reverting to once-daily editions with the end of the afternoon edition in 1981. Also that year, the Independent Network News , an evening newscast intended for independent stations, was launched as
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#17328554710551584-814: The Orange County Reporter was first published. The Reporter became a daily newspaper in 1905, and merged with the Orlando Evening Star in 1906. Another Orlando paper, the South Florida Sentinel , started publishing as a morning daily in 1913. Then known as the Morning Sentinel , it bought the Reporter-Star in 1931, when Martin Andersen came to Orlando to manage both papers. Andersen eventually bought both papers outright in 1945, selling them to
1656-653: The Orlando Sentinel and Time Warner Cable joined together to create the Orlando-based local cable news channel, Central Florida News 13 . Tribune also purchased a 31% stake in the Food Network . The company began the 1990s with six television stations, but changes to federal radio and television ownership regulations allowed Tribune to expand its television station holdings over the next decade. Tribune Broadcasting purchased ten additional stations by 1997, six of them acquired through that year's purchase of Renaissance Broadcasting for $ 1.1 billion in cash. Tribune purchased
1728-656: The Sun-Sentinel and WBZL-TV in Miami / Fort Lauderdale, Florida was given a temporary waiver. The FCC granted waivers for the other newspaper-television combinations in June 2003. In 2006, Tribune acquired the minority equity interest in AM New York , giving it full ownership of the newspaper. The company sold both Newsday and AM New York to Cablevision Systems Corporation in 2008. Tribune's partnership in The WB ended in 2006, when
1800-469: The Tribune Company of Chicago in 1965. In 1973, the two publications merged into the daily Sentinel Star . Tribune appointed Charles T. Brumback as president in 1976. Harold "Tip" Lifvendahl was named president and publisher in 1981. The newspaper was renamed the Orlando Sentinel in 1982. John Puerner succeeded Lifvendahl in 1993, who was replaced by Kathleen M. Waltz in 2000. In that same year
1872-559: The Tribune Tower . That same year, the company decided to fund the future Joseph Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University . Liberty magazine eventually exceeded Collier's circulation, but lacked sufficient advertising and was sold in 1931. The Tribune's European edition was also cut. However, Tribune launched the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate content syndication service in 1933. With
1944-552: The "most viewed" category on the South Florida Sun-Sentinel ' s website. Google News index's next pass found the link as new news. Income Security Advisors found the Google result to be new news, which was passed along to Bloomberg News where it became a headline (Tribune, which owns both papers, noted that one click on a story in non-peak hours could flag an article as "most viewed" ). On December 8, 2008, faced with
2016-528: The FCC's 39% market share cap), which had been removed by Tom Wheeler during the final months of the Obama administration . The stocks of both companies rose in value in the wake of these rumors. As was expected, the FCC reinstated the UHF discount; under adjusted calculations, the two companies only had a combined market share of 42%, meaning that the combined company would be required to divest stations in order to stay below
2088-625: The Sentinel-Star Company, owners of the Orlando Sentinel , in 1965. Also in 1963, the company purchased part of the defunct New York Mirror . The company increased its broadcast holdings with the acquisition of radio station WQCD-FM in New York City in 1964 and independent television station KWGN-TV in Denver in 1965. In 1967, the company began printing a tabloid serving suburban areas of Chicago, The Suburban Trib . The corporation
2160-509: The Tribune Company and McClatchy. The company stopped publishing the tabloid Chicago Today in 1974; the Tribune also began publishing all-day editions. An approval of changes to the Tribune bylaws in 1974 triggered a lawsuit by shareholders who saw this as a move towards taking the company public. The lawsuit by Josephine Albright – Joseph Patterson's daughter – and her son, Joseph Albright,
2232-423: The Tribune Company called for a redesign of the Sentinel . The new layout, which debuted in June 2008, was formatted to appeal to busy readers, though like all of the redesigns in Tribune's Sam Zell ownership era, was reeled back into a more traditional design with appealing elements kept after reader criticism. In 2018, the Orlando Sentinel and its corporate siblings began blocking access to Internet users in
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2304-591: The United States and founder of the University of Virginia , Thomas Jefferson , and Jefferson's grandson Francis W. Eppes , a two-time mayor of Tallahassee . In 1856, he presented the offer of a building and funds to the State Assembly of Florida to have the West Florida Seminary located at Tallahassee (now Florida State University ). The Seminary later evolved into FSU. Thomas Jefferson's youngest daughter
2376-403: The cable network from a superstation in 2014. In 2016, Tribune Media sold off real estate properties to net $ 409 million while authorizing $ 400 million in share repurchasing. In December 2016, Tribune Media sold Gracenote to Nielsen Holdings for $ 560 million; Tribune planned to use the sale to pay down a debt of $ 3.5 billion. Cash on hand was expected to pay out $ 500 million in dividends in
2448-444: The cap. However, there was only an 11% market overlap between Tribune and Sinclair's stations. On April 30, 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that there were competing bids for Tribune from a partnership between 21st Century Fox and private equity firm Blackstone Group (under which Fox would contribute its existing station group into a joint venture with Blackstone), and Nexstar Media Group . The Fox/Blackstone deal
2520-463: The company began sharing stories among 25 subscribers via the newly formed news service , the Knight News Wire. By 1990, this service was known as KRT (Knight-Ridder/Tribune) and provided graphics, photo and news content to its member newspapers. When The McClatchy Company purchased Knight-Ridder Inc. in 2006, KRT became MCT (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services), which was jointly owned by
2592-553: The company's radio stations; this left its one-time radio flagship WGN (AM) in Chicago as the company's sole remaining radio station. Tribune Publishing purchased the monthly lifestyle publication Chicago from Primedia , Inc. in August 2002. Hoy , a Spanish language newspaper owned by the company, expanded with the launch of local editions in Chicago (in September 2003) and Los Angeles (in March 2004). Tribune also launched daily newspapers targeting younger urban commuters, including
2664-527: The company's second newspaper, the New York News in 1919. Tribune's ownership of the New York City tabloid was considered "interlocking" due to an agreement between McCormick and Patterson. The paper launched a European edition during World War I . To compete with the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's in 1924, the Tribune Company launched a weekly national magazine, Liberty , run by
2736-573: The company's second syndicated television program, originating from WPIX . The New York Daily News was put up for sale in 1981, but a proposed deal fell through by 1982. In August of that year, Tribune purchased the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team from William Wrigley III . In 1981, all of Tribune's television stations, which were previously under the WGN Continental Broadcasting unit, were placed under
2808-500: The company's stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TRCO. On February 26, 2013, it was reported that Tribune hired investment firms Evercore Partners and J.P. Morgan to oversee the sale of its newspapers. On July 1, 2013, Tribune announced that it would purchase the 19 television stations owned by Local TV, LLC outright for $ 2.75 billion. The FCC approved the acquisition on December 20, and
2880-488: The company's subsidiary Tribune Broadcasting Company . The following year, Tribune formed the Tribune Entertainment Company as a production subsidiary to produce the company's existing syndicated programs including the U.S. Farm Report , as well as newer shows. In 1983, The Suburban Trib was replaced by zone editions of the Chicago Tribune . That October, the Tribune Company became a public firm, with
2952-494: The company's value to shareholders, which include a possible sale of the entire company and/or select assets, or the formation of programming alliances or strategic partnerships with other companies, due to the decrease in its stock price since the Tribune Publishing spin-off and a $ 385 million revenue write-down for the 2015 fiscal year, partly due to original scripted programming expenditures for WGN America since it converted
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3024-724: The company, taking on substantial debt. The subsequent 2008 bankruptcy of Tribune Company was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the American media industry. In December 2012 the Tribune Co. emerged from bankruptcy. Tribune announced its sale to Hunt Valley, Maryland -based Sinclair Broadcast Group on May 8, 2017, but on August 9, 2018, Tribune cancelled the sale and sued Sinclair for breach of contract. On December 3, 2018, Nexstar Media Group announced that it would merge with Tribune Media for $ 4.1 billion. Within Nexstar, Tribune Media remains
3096-400: The company, was removed and replaced by an executive council. The New York Times had reported earlier in the month about his "outlandish, often sexual behavior" that he also exercised in his previous job at Clear Channel Communications . On July 13, 2012, the Tribune Company received approval of a reorganization plan to allow the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in
3168-468: The day of President Donald Trump 's re-election campaign launch rally in Orlando, the Sentinel made national news when the editorial board published a piece saying it would not endorse the president, among their reasons, "the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies." It ultimately endorsed Biden, saying that he was "many things that Trump
3240-608: The death of Joe Patterson's sister and owner of the Washington Times-Herald , Eleanor (Cissy) Patterson, in 1948, the Tribune Company purchased the paper and operated it until 1954, when the Times-Herald was absorbed by The Washington Post . Expecting a printer's strike in November 1948, the Tribune printed their paper early, mistakenly proclaiming " Dewey Defeats Truman " in the 1948 presidential election . Tribune entered
3312-428: The first quarter of 2017. In January 2017, Tribune Media announced that Peter Liguori would step down as President and CEO in March. On April 20, 2017, Bloomberg reported that Sinclair Broadcast Group was considering acquiring Tribune Media, contingent on plans by the FCC's new chairman, Ajit Pai , to reinstate the " UHF discount " (a policy which makes UHF stations only count half of their total audience towards
3384-407: The intent to take the company private. The deal was approved by 97% of the company's shareholders on August 21, 2007. Privatization of the Tribune Company occurred on December 20, 2007 with termination of trading in Tribune stock at the close of the trading day. On December 21, 2007, Tribune and Oak Hill Capital Partners -controlled Local TV, LLC announced plans to collaborate in the formation of
3456-530: The largest bankruptcy in the history of the American media industry. On October 27, 2009, Thomas S. Ricketts purchased a majority ownership (95%) of the Chicago Cubs. The sale also included Wrigley Field and a 25% ownership stake in Comcast SportsNet Chicago , as part of a deal designed to help Tribune restructure. In October 2010, Randy Michaels , who was appointed CEO after Zell's purchase of
3528-419: The late 1990s/early 2000 in the central Orlando urban core and inn its immediately adjacent areas became increasingly liberal and/or progressive majority in their makeup. Following that trend, the paper has endorsed Democratic candidates for president in four of the last five presidential elections: John Kerry in 2004, Barack Obama in 2008, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020. In June 2019,
3600-451: The license holder for all of the former Tribune stations retained directly by Nexstar after the Nexstar acquisition. The largest broadcast merger in U.S. history was approved in 2019. The Tribune Company was founded on June 10, 1847 when the eponymous Chicago Daily Tribune published its first edition in a one-room plant located at LaSalle and Lake Streets in downtown Chicago. The original press run consisted of 400 copies printed on
3672-499: The national advertising sales organization of Tribune Publishing , was established in 2000 to take advantage of the company's expanded scale and scope. By 2001, revenues had grown to $ 5.25 billion. However, Tribune needed to pay down some of the debt that it accrued through the Times Mirror purchase; as a result, Tribune moved to sell various non-newspaper holdings operated by Times Mirror. Flight information provider Jeppesen Sanderson
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#17328554710553744-433: The network was shut down – along with CBS Corporation -owned UPN – to create The CW Television Network , which was a joint venture between CBS and Warner Bros . and affiliated with several Tribune-owned stations; Tribune did not maintain an ownership interest in the network. On April 2, 2007, Chicago-based investor Sam Zell announced plans to buy out the Tribune Company for $ 34.00 a share, totalling $ 8.2 billion, with
3816-552: The newspaper in 1874 and ran it until his death in 1899. Medill's two grandsons, cousins Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson , assumed leadership in 1911. That same year, the Chicago Tribune ' s first newsprint mill opened in Thorold , Ontario , Canada . The mill marked the beginnings of the Canadian newsprint producer later known as QUNO, in which Tribune held an investment interest until 1995. Patterson established
3888-590: The newspaper industry, effectively doubling the size of Tribune's newspaper holdings. The Times Mirror merger added seven daily newspapers to Tribune's existing publishing properties, including the Los Angeles Times , the Long Island -based Newsday , The Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant . Through the deal, Tribune became the only media company that owned both newspapers and television stations in
3960-408: The newspapers that were part of its publishing division into a separate company. Its broadcasting, digital media and other assets (including Tribune Media Services , which among others, provides news and features content for Tribune's newspapers) would remain with the Tribune Company. The split came in the footsteps of similar spin-outs by News Corporation and Time Warner , which sought to improve
4032-734: The primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida , and the Central Florida region, in the United States . It was founded in 1876 and is currently owned by Tribune Publishing Company . The Orlando Sentinel is owned by parent company, Tribune Publishing . Tribune Publishing was acquired in May 2021 by a hedge fund , Alden Global Capital , which operates its media properties through Digital First Media . The newspaper's website utilizes geo-blocking , making it inaccessible from European countries. The Sentinel ' s predecessors date to 1876, when
4104-505: The profitability of their properties by separating them from the struggling print industry. On November 20, 2013, Tribune announced it would cut 700 jobs in its newspaper operations, citing falling advertising revenue. The split was finalized on August 4, 2014, with the publishing arm being spun out as Tribune Publishing , and the remainder of the company renamed Tribune Media . On February 29, 2016, Tribune Media announced that it would review various "strategic alternatives" to increase
4176-426: The purchase of KTLA, Tribune became the fourth largest television station owner in the United States, behind the three major broadcast networks . The company acquired Newport News, Virginia newspaper, the Daily Press in 1986, but sold off the newspaper's co-owned cable television operations. To counteract a possible hostile corporate takeover in 1987, the Tribune Company developed a plan that allowed shareholders
4248-444: The right to purchase additional preferred shares from a new series of stock in the event that a buyer acquired 10% of the company's common stock or a tender offer for the company. Shareholders also ratified a two-for-one stock split. Tribune Entertainment experienced success in 1987 with the launch of the syndicated daytime talk show Geraldo . In 1988, Tribune purchased five weekly papers based in Santa Clara County, California . In
4320-673: The sale of Tribune Studios and related real estate in Los Angeles to private equity firm Hudson Capital, LLC, for $ 125 million. The parties also agreed to a five-year lease allowing its television station in the city, KTLA, to continue operating at the location through 2012. On April 28, 2008, Tribune completed an acquisition of real estate from TMCT Partnership. On July 29, 2008, Cablevision Systems Corporation completed its purchase of Newsday from Tribune. On September 8, 2008, United Airlines lost (and almost regained) $ 1 billion in market value when an archived Chicago Tribune article from 2002 about United filing for bankruptcy appeared in
4392-422: The sale of 7.7 million shares at $ 26.75 a share. In 1985, Tribune Broadcasting acquired Los Angeles independent station KTLA from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for a record $ 510 million. Because of the Federal Communications Commission 's media cross-ownership regulations, which prohibit the ownership of a television station and newspaper in the same market, Tribune was forced to sell the Los Angeles Daily News . With
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#17328554710554464-401: The sale of some of its internet investments. In February 2000, Tribune acquired the remaining 67% interest in Qwest Broadcasting for $ 107 million, effectively adding two more stations to its roster, increasing its reach 27% of the country. In June 2000, Tribune acquired the Los Angeles–based Times Mirror Company in a US$ 8.3 billion merger transaction, the largest acquisition in the history of
4536-410: The sale was completed one week later on December 27. Tribune later announced its return to television production on March 19, 2013, with the relaunch of the production and distribution division as Tribune Studios (not to be confused with the former name of Los Angeles studio facility Sunset Bronson Studios ). On July 10, 2013, Tribune announced that it would split into two companies, spinning off
4608-453: The sentinel gained seven sister newspapers as Tribune Co. announces its merger with Times Mirror, adding the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant and three others to the Tribune Publishing operation. Waltz announced her resignation in February 2008. Howard Greenberg, already publisher of fellow Tribune newspaper the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, was named publisher of both papers after Waltz left. In 2008,
4680-469: The television industry then in its infancy, in 1948, with the establishment of WGN-TV in Chicago in April and WPIX in New York City in June of that year. In 1956, the Tribune Company purchased the Chicago American from William Randolph Hearst . In the 1960s, the company entered the booming Florida market, acquiring the Fort Lauderdale -based Gore Newspapers Company, owner of the Pompano -based Sun-Sentinel and Fort Lauderdale News in 1963 and
4752-401: The three largest media markets of New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago , as a result of cross-ownership waivers that were approved by the FCC. Among other advantages from the merger, including various economies of scale, Tribune's newspapers could now effectively compete for national advertising, as it has grown to become the third largest newspaper group in the country. Tribune Media Net,
4824-542: The wake of a dispute with some of its labor unions, Tribune sold the Daily News to British businessman Robert Maxwell in 1991. With changes in the media industry due to greater public access to the internet in the 1990s, Tribune Publishing began to sell off some of its newspaper properties. Tribune Broadcasting steadily acquired additional stations during the decade, while Tribune itself launched two new divisions, Tribune Ventures and Tribune Education. In 1993, Tribune Broadcasting launched Chicagoland Television (CLTV),
4896-399: Was Mary Jefferson Eppes , mother of Francis Eppes. Her death, in 1804, prompted Abigail Adams to thaw relations between the Adams and Jefferson families by writing her condolences to Thomas Jefferson. Francis was only three years old when his mother died and had no memory of her. Seven years after this football trophy was created, an Eppes statue was created and placed as a focal point of
4968-469: Was dismissed in 1979. The Tribune Company entered first-run television syndication in 1975 with the debut of the U.S. Farm Report . The Times-Advocate in Escondido, California was purchased by the company in 1977. In October 1978, United Video Satellite Group uplinked WGN-TV's signal to satellite , becoming a national " superstation ", joining the ranks of WTCG (later WTBS, now WPCH-TV ) in Atlanta and WWOR-TV in New York City. During 1978,
5040-401: Was reorganized in 1968 by reincorporating under Delaware 's General Corporation Law , ending its Illinois incorporation, splitting its stock by four for one and forming a separate subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune . The 1970s brought another decade of acquisitions for the company including the purchase of a Los Angeles shopper in 1973, which became the Los Angeles Daily News . In 1973,
5112-481: Was sold to Boeing for $ 1.5 billion in October 2000. Also in October, the Institute for International Research purchased AchieveGlobal, a consulting and training firm for $ 100 million. Times Mirror Magazines was sold to Time, Inc. in November of that year for $ 475 million. Tribune divested its Tribune Education division to The McGraw-Hill Companies for $ 686 million in September 2000. After all these sales, Tribune still had $ 4 billion in long-term debt. Tribune started
5184-554: Was the number one publisher of supplemental education materials. Tribune Education acquired an 80.5% stake in mass market children's book publisher Landoll in 1997. In June 1998, Tribune entered into a trade with Emmis Communications to swap WQCD-FM to the latter company, in exchange for acquiring two Emmis-owned television stations ( WXMI in Grand Rapids, Michigan and KTZZ in Seattle , Washington ). It later traded WGNX in Atlanta to
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