Tribune Company

Tribune Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan Given Until February

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago


WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has granted the Tribune Co. more time to submit a Chapter 11 reorganization plan. The judge on T...

Tough Times Turning Newspaper Lenders Into Owners

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media


SAN FRANCISCO — Newspaper headlines have skewered money lenders for dubious decisions that stoked the recession. Now the financiers are starting...

Tribune Company To Pay Back $170 Million In Debt

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


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 11.03.2009 | Media


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

Bankruptcy Judge Defers Action On Lawsuit Against Tribune Co.

AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago


WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has deferred action on the Tribune Co.'s request to halt a lawsuit alleging that Chairman Sam Zel...

Home Field Disadvantage

Ted Goeglein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago


Ted Goeglein

The Cubs' old pile of bricks stinks of inebriated resignation. It's time for Wrigley Field to be gutted of the past and rebuilt for the future.

Cubs Sale To Ricketts Family OK'ed By Bankruptcy Judge

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago


WILMINGTON, Del. — The sale of the Chicago Cubs moved closer Tuesday as a bankruptcy court judge said the team can go to the family of billionai...

Cubs Bankruptcy: Chicago Cubs File Chapter 11 To Ease Sale

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago


NEW YORK — The Chicago Cubs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow their owner to sell the baseball team in a...

Chicago Cubs Sale Approved By Bankruptcy Judge

AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago


WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal bankruptcy judge cleared the way Thursday for the Tribune Co. to sell the Chicago Cubs and the storied Wrigley Fiel...

Cubs Sale Gets Government Go-Ahead

Bloomberg News | Christopher Stern | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago


U.S. antitrust officials approved Tribune Co.'s sale of the Chicago Cubs baseball team to the Ricketts family, which founded TD Ameritrade Holding Co....

Tribune: Decline of a Media Giant

Chris Maloney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago


Chris Maloney

Tribune's vast multimedia holdings were supposed to act as a hedge against a downturn in any one area -- that was before the Internet and the "perfect storm" financial crisis.

Sam Zell May Not Leave Tribune Following Restructuring

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media


But other people close to the restructuring talks, speaking anonymously because the discussions were supposed to remain private, caution that the majo...

How Zell Cost Tribune $150 Million In Botched Cubs Deal

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago


Oh, the tangled webs that Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell can weave. The long process he spun for selling the Cubs probably cost his debt-strapped compa...

Cubs Sale To Ricketts Family Finalized

AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigl...

Sam Zell "Ready To Walk Away" From Tribune: Report

New York Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media


So much for Sam Zell, newspaperman. The developer, who arranged a controversial $11.7 billion employee buyout of newspaper giant Tribune only to see...

Tribune Creditors Working To Force Sam Zell Out: Report

Chicago Sun-Times | DAVID ROEDER | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media


Eight months after the filing, two sources familiar with the process said creditors are working on a reorganization plan that elbows Zell aside. The c...

Chicago Tribune, LA Times Merge National Sports Beats

Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago


If you're a regular reader of the Tribune sports section, you've noticed that Sam Farmer is writing columns on the NFL and Chris Dufresne is weighing ...

Sam Zell: Tribune May Exit Bankruptcy This Year

Editor and Publisher | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media


CHICAGO A day after Tribune Co. asked a bankruptcy court for more time to complete its reorganization plan, Chairman and CEO Sam Zell said Tuesday the...

Cubs May File Bankruptcy To Help Sale, Would Be First MLB Bankruptcy In 39 Years

AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — The corporate owner of the Chicago Cubs is considering having the baseball team file for bankruptcy protection as a legal step to hast...

Tribune Agrees To Cubs Sale Deal Terms With Marc Utay, Now Has Two Offers To Buy Team: Reuters

Reuters | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago


Tribune Co has agreed to terms for the sale of the Chicago Cubs to a group led by private equity investor Marc Utay, giving the company two offers to ...

Sale Of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field To Ricketts Family Finalized: Report

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — The Tribune Co. has reached a written agreement to sell the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and other assets to the family of TD Ameritrad...

Dallas Morning News' Publisher Outsources Ad Sales To Tribune

MediaWorks | Jeremy Mullman | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media


CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- In what's believed to be a first-of-its-kind arrangement in the struggling newspaper industry, Belo's Dallas Morning News has t...

Cubs Sale Negotiations Back On Track With Ricketts Family: Tribune

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 07.28.2009 | Chicago


The Ricketts family's bid to buy the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. is gaining momentum, a week after the media company said it was "assessing other al...

Sam Zell May Lose Control Of Tribune Company

Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal | | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media


Chicago-based Tribune Co. and its creditors are in the early stages of negotiating a plan of reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that sources said...

IRS Auditing Tribune Employee Stock Plan

AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — The Internal Revenue Service is auditing a Tribune Co. deal involving its employee stock ownership plan, a major piece of Sam Zell's p...