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Tribune, DirecTV Reach Deal

AP | Posted 04.05.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — DirecTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets have regained access to a host of channels that had been blacked out since Sunday because of ...

Tribune Broadcasting: No Deal Reached With DirecTV

AP | Posted 05.31.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — DirecTV Inc. subscribers in 19 U.S. markets have lost access to certain programming, after Tribune Broadcasting said it failed to re...

Tribune Bankruptcy Case Like To Extend

AP | Posted 02.29.2012

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Media company Tribune Co. likely won't emerge from bankruptcy protection until at least this summer. Tribune,...

Former Q101 Host Launches Kickstarter For New Book

Posted 08.23.2011

Chicago's only home for alternative rock radio is about to be gone, and one long-time personality is asking listeners to help him preserve Q101's hist...

Disgraced Ex-Tribune Chief Returns To His Roots

nytimes.com | BEN SISARIO | Posted 08.21.2011

Randy Michaels, the former radio executive who was ousted from the Tribune Company last year after revelations of a boorish culture among the company'...

Tribune Picks A New CEO

AP | Posted 07.06.2011

CHICAGO — Tribune Co. has selected the publisher of its largest newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, to be its CEO as it tries to end nearly 2 1/2...

Tribune Executive Asks Judge To Approve Company Bankruptcy Exit Plan

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WILMINGTON, Del. — A top executive with Tribune Co. wants a judge to approve the company's plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection as soon as ...

Broadcasters Are the Big Winners Again This Election Season

Bill Mann | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Mann

Why don't we see any stories about the broadcasters feasting at the trough each election year? Simple: They own the stations that would air those stories. And they're not about to assign them, either.

Tribune FIRES CEO: NYT

Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

The New York Times is reporting that the Tribune Co. will ask for the resignation of CEO Randy Michaels on Tuesday. According to an insider who spo...

Bankruptcy Judge: Tribune Co. Can't File New Reorganization Plan

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 05.25.2011

WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge overseeing Tribune Co.'s bankruptcy case refused Tuesday to let a group of creditors file an alternative to t...

D.O.A.: Lenders Cry Foul Over Tribune Bankruptcy Plan

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011

The Tribune Co. would give ownership of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other media properties to its main creditors under a bankruptcy reo...

Bankrupt Tribune Pays Large Incentive Bonuses to Top Executives: Where's the Incentive Though?

Maury Slevin | Posted 05.25.2011

Maury Slevin

If you think a bankrupt company that has spent the past year laying off 3,000 employees, cutting severance packages, and freezing salaries would adopt frugal executive compensation packages, think again.

Tribune Company To Pay Back $170 Million In Debt

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

CHICAGO — Tribune Co., the owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets, said Tuesday it will pay back $170 millio...

Tribune Company Papers To Give Up AP For One Week

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

CHICAGO — Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press co...

Judge To Weigh Whether Tribune Can Pay 2008 Employee Bonuses, Severance Payments

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 05.25.2011

WILMINGTON, Del. — The Tribune Co. can pay more than $13 million in bonuses to almost 700 employees for their work last year, a federal bankrupt...

Tribune Co. Discloses Government Probe Into Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Los Angeles Times | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 05.25.2011

Tribune Co. has disclosed that the U.S. Department of Labor has opened an investigation into the company's employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP. Th...

Leno to Take Over 10PM: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 9, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Shelly Palmer

After Conan O'Brien takes over the Tonight Show in May, Jay Leno will begin hosting a show at 10pm on NBC. The move coincides with Jeff Zucker's pla...

Obama Makes Broadband Availability Key Issue: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 8, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Shelly Palmer

President-elect Barack Obama announced that broadband availability would be a major part of his public works project. In a video distributed over th...

Tribune Company To Drop AP

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 05.25.2011

Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major ...

What the Tribune's Zoning Series Missed

David Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

David Hoyt

The Chicago Tribune's zoning series missed the half of the story that corresponds to the half of the city known as the South Side.

Two White Guys "At the Movies"

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

Esther J. Cepeda

It's 2008 and some black dude is running for president, but the movie review show based in Chicago - which has one of the largest black and Latino populations in America--couldn't find one single movie writer, reviewer, or blogger "of color" to fill one of the seats?

Tribune Planning Big Cuts: Fewer Papers, Firing Reporters

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 05.25.2011

Tribune Company newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune will quickly cut costs -- by printing fewer papers and employing fewer j...

The Honeymoon Is Over At Tribune

Forbes | Louis Hau | Posted 05.25.2011

In the weeks since Sam Zell led a buyout of Tribune, the real estate mogul has been meeting with some of his wary new employees, reportedly making a g...

Zell's New Tribune Employee Handbook: "Coming To Work Drunk Is Bad Judgment"

Los Angeles Times | Molly Selvin | Posted 05.25.2011

How much should a company's culture reflect its chief executive, especially one who prides himself on being a blunt and innovative -- some might say a...

Traders See Zell's Tribune Deal As Riskiest Big Buyout

Wall Street Journal | Dwight Cass and Lauren Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

The bankruptcies of Revco and Federated heralded the end of the 1980s buyout boom. Traders and lenders are starting to wonder which of the current LBO...