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holdings
This listing is indicative only.
It covers -
APN
APN (40.7% owned by INM as of late 2002) claims to
be Australia's largest publisher of regional newspapers,
with 14 daily and more than 50 non-daily publications
and a presence in specialist and educational publishing.
It competes with Rural Press,
carved out of the Fairfax empire,
and Murdoch-controlled Queensland
Press.
It is a major commercial radio broadcaster, with investments
in 11 metropolitan radio stations in Australia and 55
radio stations in New Zealand. In
Australia, APN and Clear Channel
Communications of the US jointly operate the Australian
Radio Network (ARN), which broadcasts to more than 3.5
million listeners each week.
ARN stations include -
WS
FM - Sydney
MIX 106.5 - Sydney
Gold FM - Melbourne
MIX 101.1 - Melbourne
4KQ - Brisbane
5DN - Adelaide
MIX 102.3 - Adelaide
In
New Zealand, ARN has a one third interest in The Radio
Network (TRN), the leading commercial broadcaster with
55 stations.
APN's Pan TV is a joint venture between ARN, public sector
broadcaster SBS and Australian
Capital Equity. Its World Movies pay tv channel is distributed
by the three pay tv carriers - Foxtel, Optus and Austar
- and accessed by about 15% of pay tv homes.
APN's outdoor advertising holdings include Adshel Street
Furniture (partnership with Clear
Channel), Cody Outdoor and Australian
Posters, the major billboard operator that's extended
into advertising on the back of taxis. Its Buspak unit
offers bus advertising in all Australian metropolitan
markets and in Hong Kong.
Online businesses include the classifieds site checkout
and the real estate site homehunter,
with investments in B2B peakhour,
mobile data service bureau itouch
and WAP site builder Soprano
Design.
W&H
As of 2001 APN controls New Zealand-based Wilson &
Horton (W&H) - profiled in more detail here
- which includes -
The
New Zealand Herald
Weekend Herald
Bay of Plenty Times
Christchurch Star
Hawke's Bay Today
Northern Advocate
Daily Post
Wanganui Chronicle
Evening News
The Chronicle
Oamaru Mail
Whangarei Report
Manurewa Week
Papatoetoe Otahuhu Week
Shore News
West Weekly
Our Town
Papakura Coastal News
Waikato This Week
The Riversider
Katikati Advertiser
Bay News Weekender
Te Awamutu Courier
Taupo Weekender
Turangi Chronicle
Wanganui Mid-Week
Weekly News
Eastern Bay News
Napier Courier
Hastings Leader
CHB Mail
Independent Herald
Porirua News
Wainuiomata News
Western News
Cook Strait News
Christchurch Star Observer
Pegasus Post
News Advertiser
North Canterbury News
Canterbury Times
New Zealand Woman's Weekly
New Zealand Listener
Tourist Times
Thermal Air
Universal Business Directories NZ
Wises Maps
W&H Print
ComPrint
Colorgraphic Print
Security Print Hutcheson
Bowman & Stewart
Christchurch Star Print
Webprint Colour W&H Graphics
Ellerslie Printers
BankPrint
CHB Print
Rotorua Printers
PrintCorp
The Print Place
33% of The Radio Network (TRN) - 53 stations
INM
APN's largest shareholder is Dublin-based Independent
News & Media PLC (INM),
the international media group controlled by the O'Reilly
family.
Its holdings cover:
Independent Newspapers (Eire)
Irish Independent - daily broadsheet
Sunday Independent and Sunday World
Eire's only national evening newspaper
around 15% of provincial papers in Eire and Northern
Ireland
Irish edition of the Daily Star
50% stake in Chrus (formerly Princes Holdings) - cable/MDS
television
Independent
Newspapers (UK)
Independent
Independent on Sunday
provincial papers in the UK
largest recruitment magazine business in London
exhibitions and recruitment fairs
48% of iTouch mobile phone service
INM in South Africa
INM's South African holdings include -
Johannesburg
Star
Cape Town Cape Times
Cape Town Cape Argus
Cape Town Weekend Argus
Natal Mercury
Durban Daily News
Durban Sunday Tribune
Bloemfontein The Friend
Kimberley Diamond Fields Advertiser
Business Report
Personal Finance
Isolezwe
joint venture with Advance
subsidiary Conde Nast
50% stake in financial publisher Worth
17.8% stake in Kaya FM Johannesburg
Clear Channel Independent - outdoor advertising (initially
a 37.5% stake, then 50% with the remainder controlled
by Clear until January 2008)
- CCI is active in South Africa in Angola, Botswana,
Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland,
Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Until
October 2003 INM had a 19.1% stake in Lusomundo Media
(publisher of Jornal de Noticias and Diario
de Noticias)
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