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The Landmark
group of the USA has newspaper,
magazine and broadcast interests.
the group
The
group has minor newspaper interests in the southern US
but is primarily known for the Weather Channel - devoted
as one might expect to the weather - and weather.com (which
Nielsen/NetRatings reported was the 18th most popular
US site, by traffic, in 2007). Landmark formerly included
cable tv network TeleCable, acquired by TCI
for US$1.8 billion.
The group is controlled by the Batten family, which has
a substantial stake in open source packager Red Hat. It
enjoyed less success with Landmark's open source offshoot
Great Bridge and with The Travel Channel.
Landmark reportedly had US$1.75 billion in revenue in
2006 and some 12,000 employees. An indication of group's
history is here.
studies
There is no substantial study of the Landmark group.
Founder Frank Batten Sr. collaborated with Jeffrey Cruikshank
on The Weather Channel…The Improbable Rise of a Media
Phenomenon (Boston: Harvard Business School Press
2002). For Red Hat see Robert Young's boy's-own-tale Under
the Radar: How Red Hat changed the software business and
beat Microsoft (New York: Coriolis 1999).
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