List of assets owned by the New York Times Company

This is a list of assets owned by the New York Times Company.^[1]

Business units

Media properties

• The New York Times
• The New York Times International Edition
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine
• The New York Times Book Review
• The New York Times Magazine
• The New York Times Licensing Group (NYTLicensing)

Other properties (related to the New York Times brand)

• Times Books
• T Brand Studio

Other assets

• The Athletic^[2]
• Wirecutter^[3]
• Wordle^[4]

Joint ventures

• The New York Times Building (58%) with Brookfield Asset Management

Investments

• Scroll (web service)^[5]

Investment portfolio as of January 2017:^[update][6]

• Atlas Obscura
• Automattic
• Betaworks
• Blendle
• Federated Media Publishing (FMP)
• theSkimm

Former assets

Regional Media Group

Thirteen dailies and one weekly newspaper primarily in the Southern United States, including titles in Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina.

• The Gadsden Times of Gadsden, Alabama
• The Tuscaloosa News of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California
• The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune of Sarasota, Florida
• Star-Banner of Ocala, Florida
• The Courier of Houma, Louisiana
• The Daily Comet of Thibodaux, Louisiana
• The Dispatch of Lexington, North Carolina
• Times-News of Hendersonville, North Carolina
• The Star-News of Wilmington, North Carolina
• Spartanburg Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, South Carolina

Broadcast Media Group

Radio stations

AM Station

FM Station

City of license/Market	Station/ Frequency	Years owned	Current ownership
New York City	WQXR/WQEW 1560	1944–2007	WFME, owned by Family Radio
	WQXR-FM 96.3	1944–2009	Owned by New York Public Radio

Television stations

City of license / Market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Years owned	Current ownership status
Huntsville, Alabama	WHNT-TV	19 (19)	1980–2007	CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Fort Smith - Fayetteville, Arkansas	KFSM-TV	5 (18)	1979–2007	CBS affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Moline, Illinois - Davenport, Iowa	WQAD-TV	8 (38)	1985–2007	ABC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa	WHO-TV	13 (13)	1996–2007	NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Oklahoma City	KFOR-TV	4 (27)	1996–2007	NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
	KAUT-TV	43 (19)	2005–2007	The CW owned-and-operated (O&O)
Scranton - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania	WNEP-TV	16 (50)	1985–2007	ABC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Memphis, Tennessee	WREC/WREG-TV	3 (28)	1971–2007	CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Norfolk, Virginia	WTKR	3 (40)	1995–2007	CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company

New England Media Group

This comprised two of the three largest-circulation newspapers in Massachusetts, purchased in 1993 (Boston) and 1999 (Worcester). This group also included boston.com.

• The Boston Globe of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boston.com
• Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts
• Metro Boston LLC (49%)

The Globe and the other New England assets were sold to John Henry in August 2013, with the sale taking effect at the end of October. In 2014, Henry sold the Telegram & Gazette to another media group.

Other

• Fenway Sports Group (17.75%, sold in 2012)
  • Boston Red Sox
  • Fenway Park
  • Liverpool Football Club
  • Fenway Sports Management
  • New England Sports Network (NESN) (80%)
  • Discovery Times (50%)
  • Roush Fenway Racing (50%)
• About.com (sold in 2012)^[7]
• Baseline StudioSystems (sold in 2011)^[8]
• HelloSociety^[9]

References

1. "The New York Times Company: Company: Business Units". The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 9 March 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
2. Feiner, Lauren; Sherman, Alex (January 6, 2022). "New York Times to buy The Athletic for $550 million". CNBC. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
3. Kafka, Peter (2016-10-24). "The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter for more than $30 million". Recode. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
4. Tracy, Marc (2022-01-31). "The New York Times Buys Wordle". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
5. Snider, Mike. "Gannett joins ad-free media platform Scroll as partner". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
6. "Early Stage Investments". The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 2017-01-29. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
7. Haughney, Christine (2012-09-24). "Times Company Completes Sale of About.com". Media Decoder Blog. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
8. "NY Times Sells TV/Movie Database Baseline". Deadline. 2011-10-08. Archived from the original on 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
9. Jerde, Sara (24 September 2019). "The New York Times Shuts Down Its Stand-Alone Influencer Agency". Adweek. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

External links

• The New York Times Company website
• Columbia Journalism Review ownership listing