Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Wednesday Morning Linkage

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The New York Times Co. said Tuesday it plans to sell its nine television stations, less than three months after it said it had no plans to sell the unit. Could the Tribune Company follow suit and sell all their television stations as well?

CHICAGO, Sept 12, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Tribune Publishing, a division of Tribune Company (TRB), today announced that Rondra J. (Ronnie) Matthews has been named president, publisher and chief executive officer of The Baltimore Sun Company. Matthews has served as president, publisher and chief executive officer of Daily Press, Inc., Newport News, Va., since July 2000.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 11, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Los Angeles Times today launched "California Politics," a new destination on latimes.com that will take readers inside the state's political scene with aggressive daily coverage and new interactive features, including a blog called "Political Muscle" by Robert Salladay, one of two Times reporters covering Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

NEW YORK, NY, Sep 12, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Quigo (www.quigo.com), a pioneer and leading provider of targeted, pay-for-performance advertising, today announced that CareerBuilder.com, the nation's largest online job site, has signed an agreement to deploy a private label version of Quigo's AdSonar platform on its site. With AdSonar, CareerBuilder.com will generate new revenue through an auction-based, pay-per-click program featuring content-targeted sponsored links placed by performance marketing advertisers.

TRB trades on unusually high volume. This stock has experienced unusually high trading volume of 3,269,500 shares today; its average daily volume over the previous 30 days was 1,387,373 shares. For details, go here.

Senior Press Operations Manager (Tribune Company)
Location: Deerfield Beach, FL / Purpose: Responsibilities: Manages production in the Press department so productivity, reliability, and product quality meet or exceed planned objectives and to communicate to the Press Manager all issues.

CHICAGO, Sept 13, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Tribune Interactive, a subsidiary of Tribune Company (TRB) today announced that Brigid Kenney has been named senior vice president/network operations, and Dick Malone has been named senior vice president/local market operations. Both will assume their new positions with TI immediately.

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