The Tribune Company

• What The Cubs Sale Will Say About Baseball

  ...billion dollar price tag. Last April, Forbes valued the club itself at $642 million--the fifth-highest in baseball. Tribune Company bought the Cubs for $21 million in 1981. But don't interpret the healthy price the Cubs figure to command as sign that franchise...

  about 1 hour ago - Forbes

• Sale of Chicago Cubs to Finally Conclude?

  ...of Mark Prior for years, it's lingering without any positive returns. Anyway, it appears the sale of the Cubs from the Tribune Company may be seeing a proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. The Chicago-based media conglomerate has been evaluating bids...

  about 4 hours ago - AOL Sports

• End Times | The Atlantic [del.icio.us]

  ...But the experiences of Sam Zell, who must be ruing the day he waded into the waking nightmare that is the now-bankrupt Tribune Company, would surely temper the enthusiasm of all but the most arrogant of plutocrats. (And as global economies tumble around them,...

  about 5 hours ago - Adrian Monck

• Mets | Discussing plan to re-sign Pedro

  ...06 Jan 2009 13:46:13 -0800 The Chicago Sun-Times reports Mark Cuban is unlikely to buy the Chicago Cubs, as the Tribune Company is close to selecting a winning bidder for the team. Cuban has asked for an extension to submit his final bid and has not heard...

  about 11 hours ago - KFFL

• The Tuesday Small-For-All News Report: 01.06.09

  ...mark the end of the bi-weekly Smackdown tapings that have been done as a cost-cutting measure, as WGN's parent company The Tribune Company is paying an undisclosed sum for broadcasting rights. With an additional hour of taping, it would necessitate three hour...

  about 17 hours ago - 411Mania.com

• A Display Ad Debuts On The NYT Front Page; More Newspapers Share News; Two Print Classified Days Dropped; Print Dumped For Internet Only; And Newsstand Prices Hiked | Welcome To 2009

  about 17 hours ago - Follow the Media

• The Libertarian Case for Blagojevich

  1 day ago - Ludwig von Mises Institute

• Don Corsini Named President/General Manager of KTLA-TV

  1 day ago - Street Insider

• There's Gold In Them 'Tubes, I Swear

  1 day ago - AdPulp

• US: Internet overtakes print as primary news source

  1 day ago - Editors Weblog