Tribune Publishing (TPUB), a 2014 spinoff from Tribune Media, received a large cash infusion of over $44m from Chicago entrepreneur Michael Ferro last week week in exchange for 5.2m shares. Mr. Ferro will become TPUB’s largest shareholder with ~16.6% of the shares and will join the company’s Board of Directors, replacing Eddy Hartenstein as Executive Chairman. Interestingly, Mr. Ferro… Read More »
After a failed sale to Meredith (MDP) and numerous delays in the process, Time Warner (TWX) is finally ready to spin off its magazine business, Time Inc. The new company will trade on the NYSE under the ticker ‘TIME’ and TWX shareholders will receive 1 share of TIME for every 8 TWX shares owned. The distribution will take place… Read More »
Last September we noted that Tribune (TRBAA) was following the industry playbook and spinning off its publishing assets into a separate company. According to a recent article, the company is eyeing to complete the transaction sometime in the middle of the year, either Q2 or early Q3. At the time of the announcement, the company estimated that the… Read More »
Newcastle Investment Corp(NCT), which in May spun off a residential REIT, the creatively named New Residential Investment Corp(NRZ), has announced plans to spin off its media business to shareholders. Newcastle is a bit of a strange beast. It is structured as a REIT and controlled by Fortress Investment Group (FIG). The transaction itself is strange as well. Newcastle… Read More »
The publishing business is changing and with a new world often comes new owners with fresh ideas. Amazon’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos recently purchased The Washington Post and hedge fund titan John Henry snatched up the iconic Boston Globe. Even public companies like News Corp (NWSA) and Time Warner (TWX) are in the process or completed unloading their publishing assets into independent… Read More »
Just a day after Tribune (TRBAA) announced that it would be separating its publishing assets into a new company, speculation has already started about who will be the next media company to follow the breakup trend. With News Corp’s (NWSA) spinoff completed and Time Warner’s (TWX) on track, the WSJ tossed out Gannett’s (GCI) name as a possible… Read More »
In the lead up to the separation of News Corp’s(NWSA) publishing arm from its global media business, the two pieces began trading today on a when-issued basis. The parent, global media company, which will be renamed 21st Century Fox and trade under the FOXA and FOX tickers began trading today as FOXAV. The publishing spinoff will take the… Read More »
A few more milestones have been crossed on News Corp’s (NWSA) path to spinning off its publishing business. This past week, the company received shareholder approval in order to change its certificate of incorporation. The move was necessary in order to facilitate the spinoff of its publishing business, commonly referred to as the new News Corp. A few weeks prior to… Read More »
With the high profile Abbott/Abbvie separation completed, it’s time to look forward to the next ‘big’ spin. It’s not always so easy to predict which name that will be, but one thing I do know for certain is that the upcoming News Corporation (NWSA) spinoff of its publishing assets will certainly be getting a lot of press. In… Read More »
With the announcement last week that News Corp.(NWSA) would be spinning off its publishing business, analysts have been looking for copycat transactions to propose. It was inevitable that some of them would turn their attention to Time Warner(TWX), and, indeed Jeanine Poggi reports at AdAge that Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser renewed the calls for a Time Inc.… Read More »
After days of speculation, and months of internal debate, News Corp(NWSA) announced yesterday that it will spin off its newspaper and publishing business. The company aims to complete the transaction in the first half of 2013. Rupert Murdoch will remain Chairman of both companies and CEO of the media and entertainment business. Each company will continue to have… Read More »