Landmark Communications Owner Plans to Sell; Company Owns Weather Channel and 9 Newspapers

Source: Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The family that owns Landmark Communications will announce as early as Thursday that it plans to sell the company, which owns the Weather Channel and nine daily newspapers, according to its flagship newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot.

The privately held, Norfolk-based company could be sold in pieces, the newspaper reported on its Web site Wednesday night.

JPMorgan Chase is advising the company on the sale of the Weather Channel, which is based in Atlanta and is one of the last privately owned cable channels in the United States. Lehman Brothers is helping with the sale of the company's other media assets, the newspaper reported.

The company, which had $1.75 billion in sales in 2006, employs about 12,000. It is parent to nine daily papers, including The Roanoke Times in Virginia and The News & Record of Greensboro, N.C., and more than 100 nondaily newspapers and specialty publications.

Read more: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080103/landmark_communications_sale.html

buys the channel and we can go back to getting real weather instead of informercials for weather-related stuff like vitamins, fertilizer, sunblock etc.

Since I work outside, I depend on the Weather Channel for, well, weather.

I have sat 15 minutes waiting for local conditions to no avail.

Now I go to the web, instead.

Wonder who will buy? Someone who will lie to us about global warming? :scared: