List of Advance subsidiaries

This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications Inc.

Local media groups

The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local

Advance Media New York

• The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
  • Syracuse.com
  • NYup.com
    • New York Cannabis Insider
  • Central New York Magazine

Advance Ohio

• The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) / Cleveland.com

Alabama Media Group

• AL.com and The Lede
  • The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama)
  • The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Alabama)
  • Press-Register (Mobile, Alabama)
• Alabama Education Lab
• Red Clay Media
  • It's a Southern Thing
  • This is Alabama
  • People of Alabama

MassLive Media

• The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts) / MassLive.com

MLive Media Group

• MLive.com
  • The Ann Arbor News (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
  • Bay City Times (Bay City, Michigan)
  • The Flint Journal (Flint, Michigan)
  • Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
  • Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
  • Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson, Michigan)
  • Muskegon Chronicle (Muskegon, Michigan)
  • Saginaw News (Saginaw, Michigan)

NJ Advance Media

• NJ.com
  • The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
  • The Times (Trenton, New Jersey)
  • The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey)
  • South Jersey Times (South Jersey)
  • Hunterdon County Democrat (Hunterdon County, New Jersey)
    • Hunterdon Observer
    • Warren Reporter (Warren County, New Jersey)
  • Ledger Somerset Observer (Somerset County, New Jersey)
  • Star-Gazette
  • Ledger Local
  • Suburban News
• Jersey's Best
• The Express-Times (Easton, Pennsylvania) / LehighValleyLive.com

Oregonian Media Group

• The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) / OregonLive.com
• Here is Oregon

PA Media Group

• The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) / PennLive.com
• Penn Studios

Staten Island Media Group

• Staten Island Advance (Staten Island, New York) / SILive.com

American City Business Journals

Main article: American City Business Journals

Leaders Group

Advance Publications purchased Street & Smith Publications, Inc. in August 1959.^[1][2] The Street & Smith trademark was resurrected in 2017, by Advance Publications' subsidiary American City Business Journals, for a series of sports annuals, and transferred later to a newly formed Leaders Group subsidiary of Advance Publications, creating a standalone sports focused division within Advance.

• Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal^[3]
• The Esports Observer^[4]
• SportTechie^[5]
• Newzoo^[6]

Condé Nast

Print

• Allure
• Architectural Digest
• Bon Appétit
• Condé Nast Traveler
• GQ
• The New Yorker
• Vanity Fair
• Vogue
• Wired

Digital

• Ars Technica
• Backchannel
• Epicurious
• Glamour
• La Cucina Italiana
• Love
• Pitchfork
• Teen Vogue
• them.
• Self

Other related websites/companies

• Street & Smith, acquired 1959
• POP, acquired 2013^[7][8]
• reddit.com:^[9] "Reddit used to be owned by Condé Nast, but in 2011 it was moved out from under Condé Nast to Advance Publications, which is Condé Nast's parent company. Then in 2012, Reddit was spun out into a re-incorporated independent entity with its own board and control of its own finances, hiring a new CEO and bringing back co-founder Alexis Ohanian to serve on the board. Reddit has 3 sets of shareholders: The largest shareholder is still Advance Publications. The second-largest set of shareholders are Reddit employees. In the spin-out that occurred in early 2012, Advance voluntarily reduced its sole ownership to that of a partial owner in order to put ownership in the hands of current and future employees. The third and smallest fraction consists of a set of angel investors."^[10]
• Charter Communications shareholder following May 2016 merger of Bright House Networks
• The IRONMAN Group, acquired March 2020^[11]
• Warner Bros. Discovery, carried over from its predecessor Discovery, Inc.
• Turnitin an Internet-based plagiarism detection service.

Former and defunct divisions

• RCA purchased Random House in 1965 and later sold it to Advance Publications in 1980.^[12] Advance sold Random House to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1998.^[13]
• Advance Entertainment Corporation (uplinker and programmer of WWOR EMI Service during 1996)
• Newhouse News Service, bearing the name of Advance Publications founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was founded in 1961 and closed in late 2008, as a cost-cutting measure due to the 2007–2008 financial crisis; based in Washington, D.C., its staff served as a national news bureau to all publications in the Advance portfolio^[14]
• Religion News Service (sold 2011 to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association)^[15]
• Parade (sold December 2014)
• Fairchild Fashion Media (sold August 2014 to Penske Media Corporation)
• The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com (sold 2019 to Georges Media Group)

Formerly-owned television stations

Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.

Note:

• (**) – Indicates a station that was built and signed-on by Advance/Newhouse.

City of license / market	Station	Channel TV / (RF)	Years owned	Current ownership status
Birmingham – Tuscaloosa – Anniston	WABT/WAPI-TV	13 (13)	1956–1980	NBC affiliate, WVTM-TV, owned by Hearst Television
St. Louis	KTVI	2 (43)	1955–1980	Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Elmira, New York	WSYE-TV **	18 (18)	1956–1980	NBC affiliate, WETM-TV, owned by Nexstar Media Group
Syracuse, New York	WSYR-TV **	3 (24)	1950–1980	NBC affiliate, WSTM-TV, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Portland	KOIN	6 (40)	1953–1977	CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Harrisburg – Lancaster - Lebanon – York	WTPA **	27 (10)	1953–1980	ABC affiliate, WHTM-TV, owned by Nexstar Media Group

References

1. "Advertising: Street Smith Deal? S. I. Newhouse, the newspaper publisher who recently moved into the magazine field, is reportedly negotiating to purchase Street Smith Publications, Inc." The New York Times (Aug. 12, 1959).
2. "Advertising: Street & Smith to Newhouse," The New York Times (Aug. 26, 1959).
3. "The Esports Observer now fully integrated with SBJ" (Press release). Street & Smiths Sports Business Journal. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
4. Takahashi, Dean (2018-10-25). "Advance Publications buys The Esports Observer as a new sport emerges". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
5. "Leaders Group, Parent Company of Sports Business Journal, Agrees to Acquire SportTechie". Leaders Group (Press release). 2021-10-07. Archived from the original on 2023-11-24. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
6. Takahashi, Dean (2018-10-10). "Advance Publications acquires stake in esports and games analytics firm Newzoo". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
7. Cook, John. (2013, January 16). "Advance Publications buys Seattle digital agency POP," GeekWire.com. Accessed: February 26, 2015.
8. "Home page". Advance. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
9. "Independence". reddit Blog. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
10. "reddit myth busters". Retrieved 12 October 2016.
11. "Advance completes acquisition of The IRONMAN Group". Advance. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
12. "RCA History". bobsamerica. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
13. "The World: Bertelsmann Swallows Random House; American Pop Culture, Foreign-Owned". The New York Times. 29 March 1998. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
14. Siegel, Fern (2008-07-30). "Newhouse News Service Shutters After 47 Years". MediaDailyNews. Media Post. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
15. "Religion News Service – Press Releases – Religion News Service Enters Nonprofit Partnership with Religion Newswriters Foundation". Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.