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2006
Viacom spins off broadcast, themepark,
publishing and some cable tv interests as CBS Corporation
Takafumi Horie arrested for fraud
Disney buys Pixar for US$7.4bn
CBS and Warner Brothers Entertainment
announcement that UPN and WB networks would combine to form
youth-oriented CW network
Axel Springer abandons ProSiebenSat
deal
Palamon Capital Partners sells European theme parks to Compagnie
des Alpes for US$280m
Time Warner sells book publishing division
(inc Warner Books and Little, Brown) to Lagardere
for US$537.5m
InterMedia buys Thomas Nelson for US$473m
Disney announces agreement to merge
its ABC Radio stations with Citadel
in US$2.7bn deal
DMGT abandons plan to sell regional newspaper chain
Lagardere agrees to buy 20% of Vivendi
Universal's French pay-TV business Canal Plus in exchange
for its 34% stake in CanalSatellite and €525m
AT&T bids US$67bn for BellSouth
Blackstone acquires Gardaland
NBC Universal agrees to buy iVillage for around US$600m
VNU agrees to US$8.9bn takeover offer by Blackstone, KKR,
Lee, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman consortium
John Fairfax buys Trade Me for $625m
Knight Ridder agrees to sell itself for US$4.5bn to McClatchy
Hearst agrees to acquire 20% stake in Fitch Group for US$592m
Softbank agrees to buy Vodafone's Japanese mobile-phone unit
for US$15.4bn
NTL buys Virgin Mobile Holdings for
US$1.67bn
Media General agrees to buy four NBC television stations (inc
WNCN Raleigh) for US$600m
Willis Stein & Partners sells Baker & Taylor to Castle
Harlan for US$455m
Time Warner buys Liberty Media's 50% in Court TV joint venture
for US$735m
GBL agrees to sell its 25.1% stake
in Bertelsmann back to Bertelsmann for €4.5bn
McClatchy announces that it will sell San Jose Mercury
News and The Contra Costa Times to MediaNews
and partnership that includes Gannett
and Stephens Group
Axel Springer acquires Jean
Frey
McClatchy announces that Pioneer Press in St Paul
and Herald in Monterey County will be sold to Hearst
McClatchy announces sale of Philadelphia Inquirer
and Daily News to Philadelphia Media Holdings for
US$562m
ITV sells stake in Seven
Network
EMAP agrees to sell EMAP France to
Berlusconi's Mondadori for £380m
Univision acquired by Saban consortium?
Orkla announces sale of newspaper
operations to Mecom for €900m
European Court of First Instance annulls European Commission's
approval of 2004 merger between Sony Music and BMG
Vivendi agrees to buy BMG Music Publishing for €1.63bn
Time Warner sells AOL France's internet access business to
Neuf Cegetel for €288m
Apax Partners buys UK B2B publisher Incisive Media for £199m
Barclays sell handbag.com to Hearst
for £22m
Google Inc pays $US1.65bn for YouTube
Air America network files for
bankruptcy
US Equity buys Penton Media from Abry Partners for US$530m
Reuters agrees to sell its 50% in
Factiva to Dow Jones for US$160m
Packer transfers media operations
to 50%-owned PBL Media joint venture with CVC
Asia Pacific
Clear Channel agrees to be bought
for US$18.7bn by Thomas H Lee Partners and Bain Capital consortium
Wiley agrees to acquire Blackwell
Publishing for £572m
KKR and Seven form Seven Media Group
Komsomolskaya Pravda bought by Gazprom (owner of
Izvestia) for US$70m
UK Press Gazette folds
Houghton Mifflin acquired by Riverdeep for US$3.36bn (inc
debt)
Fairfax acquires Rural
Press
News Corp and Liberty
Media announce US$11bn swap
Seminoles buy Hard Rock for US$965m
Cinemark Holdings Inc. acquires Century Theatres for US$1.04bn
VNU sells European business magazines in the UK, Germany,
Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium to 3i for €320m
Texas Pacific and Apollo Management agree to buy Harrah's
Entertainment for US$16.7bn
Avista Capital Partners buys McClatchy's Minneapolis Star
Tribune for US$530m
Publicis agrees to buy internet marketing specialist Digitas
for US$1.3bn
2007
New York Times agrees to sell its nine local tv stations to
Oak Hill Capital Partners for US$575m and radio station WQEW
to Disney for US$40m
Bell Globemedia becomes CTVglobemedia Inc.
CanWest and Goldman Sachs make joint C$2.3bn bid for Alliance
Atlantis television and production group
Time
Warner abandons US$900m bid for web marketer TradeDoubler
Wolters Kluwer sells education arm to Bridgepoint Capital
for €774m
Tamedia merges with Espace Media
Groupe
Candover pays US$1.2bn for Spanish theme park operator Parques
Reunidos
Macquarie Media Group buys American Consolidated Media for
US$102m
Time Warner sells 18 magazines to Bonnier
ntl rebadged as Virgin Media
Post och Inrikes Tidningar becomes digital only
National CineMedia raises US$798m in IPO
Astral announces agreement to acquire
Standard Broadcasting
Blackstone's Merlin Entertainment acquires Tussauds Group
from Dubai International Capital (DIC) for £1.03bn
GMG sells sells 49% of Trader Media
to Apax for £674m
Sam Zell makes successful US$8.2bn bid for Tribune
Google acquires DoubleClick for US$3.1bn
News Corp launches US$5bn unsolicited bid for Dow
Jones
Reed Elsevier sells Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education
International to Pearson for US$950m
CanWest sells remaining 70% of NZ broadcasting arm to Ironbridge
Capital for NZ$386m
Mecom makes €800m bid for Wegener,
gains control
Thomson sells higher education, careers and library reference
assets of Thomson Learning to Apax and Omers Capital Partners
for US$7.75bn
TFInforma pays £502m for Datamonitor
Mediaset, John de Mol and Goldman
Sachs pay US$3.56bn for Telefonica's 75% in Endemol NV
Exponent sells TSL Education (Times Educational Supplement
and Higher Education Supplement) to Charterhouse Capital Partners
Thomson agrees to acquire Reuters
RCS pays €1.1bn for Recoletos
Grupo de Comunicaciòn
WPP buys internet advertising broker 24/7 Real Media for US$649m
Microsoft agrees to pay US$6bn for ad broker aQuantive
EMI agrees to £2.4bn takeover by Terra Firma
PBL sells further 25% stake in PBL Media Holdings to CVC for
$515m
Quebecor agrees to pay C$517m for Osprey Media
Rogers agrees to pay C$375m for CTVGlobemedia's
CITY-TV network
ProSiebenSat.1 Media and SBS Broadcasting
SA merge
Bell Canada agrees to be acquired by Ontario Teachers' Pension
Plan and Providence Equity Partners for US$48.8bn
Incisive Media acquires ALM (American Lawyer) for
US$630m
Houghton Mifflin announces it will acquire Harcourt (inc Harcourt
Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann) from Reed
Elsevier for US$4bn
News Corp gains control of Dow Jones
Global Radio acquires Chrysalis Radio for £170m
AOL buys online advertising company Quigo for US$350m
Bauer agrees to pay £1.14bn
for Emap's consumer magazine unit and
radio arm
Emap sells business-to-business magazine and events arm to
Guardian Media Group (GMG) and private
equity firm Apax for around £1bn
LVMH agrees to pay €240m for Groupe Les
Echos
2008
Microsoft launches US$44.6bn bid for Yahoo
Getty
announces agreement to be acquired by Hellman & Friedman
for US$2.4bn
AOL pays US$850m for Bebo
HgCapital sells Boosey & Hawkes to Imagem Music (ABP pension
fund and independent music publisher CP Masters) for £126m
formal establishment of Thomson
Reuters
Cablevision agrees to buy 97%
stake in Newsday from Tribune
for US$650m
CBS announces US$1.8bn deal to buy CNet
Networks
Bennett Coleman agreed to buy UK
commercial broadcaster Virgin Radio Holdings from SMG
for US$105m
Remstar acquires TQS network
NBC Universal, Bain Capital and the
Blackstone Group agree to acquire The Weather Channel, Weather.com
site and Weather Services International forecasting service
from Landmark for US$3.5bn
Bertelsmann agrees to sell its
50% stake in music joint venture Sony BMG (later Sony Music
Entertainment Inc) to Sony for US$900m
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