List of Advance subsidiaries

Local media groups

The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local

Advance Media New York

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
- Syracuse.com
- NYup.com
  - New York Cannabis Insider
- Central New York Magazine

Advance Ohio

The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) / Cleveland.com

Alabama Media Group

AL.com and The Lede
- The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama)
- The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Alabama)
- Press-Register (Mobile, Alabama)
Alabama Education Lab
Red Clay Media
- It's a Southern Thing
- This is Alabama
- People of Alabama

Oregonian Media Group

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) / OregonLive.com
Here is Oregon

PA Media Group

The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) / PennLive.com
Penn Studios

Staten Island Media Group

Staten Island Advance (Staten Island, New York) / SILive.com

American City Business Journals

Leaders Group

Advance Publications purchased Street & Smith Publications, Inc. in August 1959.^[1]^[2] The Street & Smith trademark was resurrected in 2017, by Advance Publications' subsidiary American City Business Journals, for a series of sports annuals, and transferred later to a newly formed Leaders Group subsidiary of Advance Publications, creating a standalone sports focused division within Advance.

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal^[3]
The Esports Observer^[4]
SportTechie^[5]
Newzoo^[6]

Condé Nast

Print

Digital

Other related websites/companies

Street & Smith, acquired 1959
POP, acquired 2013^[7]^[8]
reddit.com, originally part of Condé Nast, moved to Advance Publications in 2011, spun off in early 2012
Charter Communications shareholder following May 2016 merger of Bright House Networks
The IRONMAN Group, acquired March 2020^[9]
Warner Bros. Discovery, carried over from its predecessor Discovery, Inc.
Turnitin an Internet-based plagiarism detection service.

Former and defunct divisions

RCA purchased Random House in 1965 and later sold it to Advance Publications in 1980.^[10] Advance sold Random House to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1998.^[11]
Advance Entertainment Corporation (uplinker and programmer of WWOR EMI Service during 1996)
Newhouse News Service, bearing the name of Advance Publications founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was founded in 1961 and closed in late 2008, as a cost-cutting measure due to the 2008 financial crisis; based in Washington, D.C., its staff served as a national news bureau to all publications in the Advance portfolio^[12]
Religion News Service (sold 2011 to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association)^[13]
Parade (sold December 2014)
Fairchild Fashion Media (sold August 2014 to Penske Media Corporation)
The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com (sold 2019 to Georges Media Group)

Former television stations

Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by Advance or Newhouse.

Media market	State	Station	Purchased	Sold	Notes
Birmingham	Alabama	WAPI-TV	1956	1980	^[a]
St. Louis	Missouri	KTVI	1955	1980
Elmira	New York	WSYE-TV **	1956	1980
Syracuse	New York	WSYR-TV **	1950	1980
Portland	Oregon	KOIN	1953	1977
Harrisburg	Pennsylvania	WTPA **	1953	1980

↑ Known as WAPT from 1953 to 1958.

References

↑ "Advertising: Street Smith Deal? S. I. Newhouse, the newspaper publisher who recently moved into the magazine field, is reportedly negotiating to purchase Street Smith Publications, Inc." The New York Times (August 12, 1959).
↑ "Advertising: Street & Smith to Newhouse," The New York Times (August 26, 1959).
↑ "The Esports Observer now fully integrated with SBJ" (Press release). Street & Smiths Sports Business Journal. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
↑ Takahashi, Dean (October 25, 2018). "Advance Publications buys The Esports Observer as a new sport emerges". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
↑ "Leaders Group, Parent Company of Sports Business Journal, Agrees to Acquire SportTechie". Leaders Group (Press release). October 7, 2021. Archived from the original on November 24, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
↑ Takahashi, Dean (October 10, 2018). "Advance Publications acquires stake in esports and games analytics firm Newzoo". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
↑ Cook, John. (2013, January 16). "Advance Publications buys Seattle digital agency POP," GeekWire.com. Accessed: February 26, 2015.
↑ "Home page". Advance. July 20, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
↑ "Advance completes acquisition of The IRONMAN Group". Advance. July 20, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
↑ "RCA History". bobsamerica. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
↑ "The World: Bertelsmann Swallows Random House; American Pop Culture, Foreign-Owned". The New York Times. March 29, 1998. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
↑ Siegel, Fern (July 30, 2008). "Newhouse News Service Shutters After 47 Years". MediaDailyNews. Media Post. Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
↑ "Religion News Service – Press Releases – Religion News Service Enters Nonprofit Partnership with Religion Newswriters Foundation". Archived from the original on October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016.

[14] Known as WAPT from 1953 to 1958.

[1] "Advertising: Street Smith Deal? S. I. Newhouse, the newspaper publisher who recently moved into the magazine field, is reportedly negotiating to purchase Street Smith Publications, Inc." The New York Times (August 12, 1959).

[2] "Advertising: Street & Smith to Newhouse," The New York Times (August 26, 1959).

[3] "The Esports Observer now fully integrated with SBJ" (Press release). Street & Smiths Sports Business Journal. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

[4] Takahashi, Dean (October 25, 2018). "Advance Publications buys The Esports Observer as a new sport emerges". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on December 6, 2022. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

[5] "Leaders Group, Parent Company of Sports Business Journal, Agrees to Acquire SportTechie". Leaders Group (Press release). October 7, 2021. Archived from the original on November 24, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

[6] Takahashi, Dean (October 10, 2018). "Advance Publications acquires stake in esports and games analytics firm Newzoo". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

[7] Cook, John. (2013, January 16). "Advance Publications buys Seattle digital agency POP," GeekWire.com. Accessed: February 26, 2015.

[8] "Home page". Advance. July 20, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2021.

[9] "Advance completes acquisition of The IRONMAN Group". Advance. July 20, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2021.

[10] "RCA History". bobsamerica. Retrieved October 3, 2015.

[11] "The World: Bertelsmann Swallows Random House; American Pop Culture, Foreign-Owned". The New York Times. March 29, 1998. Retrieved October 12, 2016.

[12] Siegel, Fern (July 30, 2008). "Newhouse News Service Shutters After 47 Years". MediaDailyNews. Media Post. Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2016.

[13] "Religion News Service – Press Releases – Religion News Service Enters Nonprofit Partnership with Religion Newswriters Foundation". Archived from the original on October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016.

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