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Tribune Company Fact Sheet

Headquarters: Chicago
Founded: 1847
Business: local mass media
Employees: about 20,000
Operating revenues (2006): $5.5 billion
Fortune 500: No. 388

Revenue Mix

  • Publishing/Interactive 74%
  • Broadcasting/Entertainment 26%

Publishing Operating Revenues

  • Advertising 80%
  • Circulation 14%
  • Other 6%

Broadcasting Operating Revenues

  • Television 83%
  • Radio/Entertainment 17%

Tribune Publishing:

  • 9 metro 7-day newspapers, including papers in the nation’s Top 3 markets
  • Total readership approximately 8 million daily, 11 million Sunday
  • Targeted free-distribution newspapers include RedEye, amNewYork and Hoy
  • 102 Pulitzer Prizes
  • Over 50 websites serving 15.5 million unique visitors per month

Tribune Broadcasting:

  • 23 stations – 14 CW affiliates; 6 Fox; 2 MyNetwork; 1 ABC
  • Stations in each of Top 3 markets and seven of the Top 10
  • WGN America reaches 70 million U.S. households
  • Stations air 278 hours of local news per week

 

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