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Name | Dow Jones Local Media Group, Inc. |
Type | Subsidiary |
Foundation | November 1936 |
Location | Middletown, New York |
Products | Daily and weekly newspapers |
Num employees | 1,500 |
Parent | News Corporation |
Homepage | Ottaway.com |
Intl | }} |
Dow Jones Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Ottaway Community Newspapers, is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, which is itself a subsidiary of News Corporation and owns newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Middletown, New York, and its flagship is the Times Herald-Record.
The Ottaway organization was founded in 1936 and grew to nine newspapers in the northeastern United States by 1970, when it was acquired by Dow Jones & Company, publisher of ''The Wall Street Journal''.
Ottaway became part of News Corp. when News Corp. bought Dow Jones for $5 billion in late 2007. Dow Jones changed the Ottaway name to a Dow Jones variation in 2009.
Daily newspapers are:
Weekly and twice-weekly newspapers include the following:
The company has been a seller more often than a buyer in the 2000s, however, and several observers—including the ''New York Post'', ''The Boston Globe'' and Ottaway's own ''Cape Cod Times'' -- have speculated that News Corporation intends to sell all or part of the company in the near future.
Under Dow Jones' ownership, Ottaway sold several newspapers in recent years, however, most recently in December 2006, when the company dealt nearly half its daily newspapers to Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) for $287.9 million (including real estate).
Until December 2006, the following dailies and weeklies were also part of the Ottaway chain. They are all now part of CNHI.
The following four daily newspapers were sold by Ottaway to CNHI for $182 million in 2002:
Also, Ottaway sold the three daily newspapers of Essex County Newspapers Inc. to ''The Eagle-Tribune'' of North Andover, Massachusetts, in 2002, for $70 million. ''The Eagle-Tribune'', along with the Essex papers listed below, was later purchased by CNHI.
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A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet. Media conglomerates strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets across the globe.
As of 2010, in terms of revenue, the Walt Disney Company is the world's largest media conglomerate, with News Corporation, Time Warner, CBS Corporation and Viacom completing the top 5, respectively. Other major players are Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sony Corporation of America.
It is questionable whether media companies ''are'' unrelated, . The trend has been strongly for the sharing of various kinds of content (news, film and video, music for example). The media sector is tending to consolidate, and formerly diversified companies may appear less so as a result. Therefore, the term media group may also be applied, however it has not so far replaced the more traditional term.
Critics have accused the larger conglomerates of dominating media, especially news, and refusing to publicize or deem "newsworthy" information that would be harmful to their other interests, and of contributing to the merging of entertainment and news (sensationalism) at the expense of tough coverage of serious issues. They are also accused of being a leading force for the standardization of culture (see globalization, Americanization), and they are a frequent target of criticism by various groups which often perceive the news organizations as being biased toward special interests.
There is also the issue of concentration of media ownership, reducing diversity in both ownership and programming (TV shows and radio shows). There is also a strong trend in the U.S. for conglomerates to eliminate localism in broadcasting, instead using broadcast automation and voice tracking, sometimes from another city in another state. Some radio stations use prepackaged and generic satellite-fed programming with no local content, except the insertion of radio ads.
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{{infobox company| company name | Dow Jones & Company Inc.| company_logo Dow Jones & Company logo|210px | company_type Subsidiary | foundation 15 Wall Street, New York (1882) | founder Charles Dow, Edward Jones, Charles Bergstresser | location 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York | key_people Todd Larsen (President) |
industry | News and Publishing| products Wall Street JournalBarron's MagazineDow Jones NewswiresDow Jones Financial Information ServicesFactivaFINS.comMarketWatch.comSmartMoneyVedomosti(See complete products listing.) | revenue $1.5 billion USD (2009) | net_income $386.56 million USD (2009) | operating_income | assets | equity | owner | num_employees | parent News Corporation | divisions | subsid | footnotes | homepage dowjones.com}} |
Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm.
The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. Like ''The New York Times'' and the ''Washington Post'', the company was in recent years publicly traded but privately controlled. The company was led by the Bancroft family, which effectively controlled 64% of all voting stock, before being acquired by News Corporation.
The company became a subsidiary of News Corporation after an extended takeover bid during 2007. It was reported on August 1, 2007 that the bid had been successful after an extended period of uncertainty about shareholder agreement. The transaction was completed on December 13, 2007. It was worth US$5 billion or $60 a share, giving NewsCorp control of ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ending the Bancroft family's 105 years of ownership.
In 2010, the company sold 90% of Dow Jones Indexes to the CME Group, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Other consumer-oriented publications of Dow Jones include ''Barron's Magazine'', a weekly overview of the world economy and markets; MarketWatch.com, the online financial news site; and the consumer magazine ''SmartMoney'' which was jointly owned with Hearst Corporation until they sold their stakes to Dow Jones in March 2010.
The monthly journal ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' closed in September 2009.
On June 6, 2007, CEO Brian Tierney of Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C., owning company of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''Philadelphia Daily News'', and Philly.com, went public in an article on Philly.com expressing interest in "joining with outside partners to buy Dow Jones." Tierney said, "We would participate as Philadelphia Media Holdings, along with other investors. We wouldn't do it alone."
In June, MySpace founder Brad Greenspan put forth a bid to buy 25% of the Dow for $60 a share, the same price per share as News Corporation's bid. Greenspan's offer was for $1.25 billion for 25% of the company.
On July 17, 2007, The ''Wall Street Journal'', a unit of Dow Jones, reported that the company and News Corporation had agreed in principle on a US$5 billion takeover, that the offer would be put to the full Dow Jones board on the same evening in New York, and that the offer valued the company at 70% more than the company's market value.
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{{infobox album| name | The Pleasure Principle | Type Album | Artist Gary Numan | Cover ThePleasurePrinciple1.jpg | Released September 1979 | Recorded Mid-1979 at Marcus Music AB, London | Genre Synthpop | Length 41:07 | Label Beggars Banquet (UK), Atco (USA)| Producer Gary Numan | Last album ''Replicas''(1979) | This album ''The Pleasure Principle''(1979) | Next album ''Telekon''(1980) | }} |
''The Pleasure Principle'' is the third studio album, and debut album under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1979. Released the same year as ''Replicas'' (under the name Tubeway Army), ''The Pleasure Principle'' also went to number 1 in the United Kingdom and paved the way to chart success for a string of synthpop acts such as Ultravox, The Human League, Depeche Mode and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Notable tracks included "Airlane", the lead-off instrumental; "Metal", sung from the perspective of an android longing to be human (covered by Nine Inch Nails on ''Things Falling Apart'', Afrika Bambaataa on ''Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light'' and used as backing for Planet Funk's "Who Said"); "Films", acknowledged by Bambaataa as an important influence on the U.S. hip hop scene; "M.E.", told by the last machine on Earth (later used as backing for Basement Jaxx’s "Where’s Your Head At?"); the electronic ballad "Complex", a UK number 6 single; and "Cars", a worldwide synthpop hit recently covered by Fear Factory and sampled for Armand Van Helden’s "Koochy". "Cars" reached number 9 in the U.S. and even climbed to number 1 in Canada, helping make ''The Pleasure Principle'' Numan's strongest stateside showing, but lack of a strong commercial follow up meant he was tagged a one-hit wonder there.
Numan toured throughout the world in support of the album with a huge stage set including banks of neon lights and twin pyramids which moved across the stage via radio control. The live show was captured on record as ''Living Ornaments ’79'' and on video as ''The Touring Principle''. The support act on the UK leg of the tour was Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. An expanded version of ''Living Ornaments '79'' was issued on CD in 2005, and the final show of ''The Touring Principle'' was captured on the CD ''Engineers'' (released exclusively through Numan's official website) in 2008.
Of the bonus tracks currently available on CD, "Random" and "Oceans" were instrumental outtakes from ''The Pleasure Principle'' sessions, originally issued on vinyl with other previously unreleased tracks in 1985; "Asylum" was the instrumental flip of the "Cars" vinyl single; the live versions of "Me! I Disconnect From You" and "Bombers" made up the B-side of "Complex", having been recorded on tour and lately made available in their original context on the expanded ''Living Ornaments '79'' CD, along with "Remember I Was Vapour" and "On Broadway". The latter two tracks first saw the light of day as a promotional single shipped with early pressings of the album ''Telekon'' in 1980; Numan's unlikely version of the classic "On Broadway" was dominated by a characteristic synthesizer solo by then-former (and soon-to-be-again) Ultravox band member Billy Currie.
There was a special gig dedicated to the album scheduled at Manchester Academy in November 2009, similar to Numan's previous tours for ''Replicas'' and ''Telekon''.
Allmusic's Greg Prato rated ''The Pleasure Principle'' four-and-a-half out of five stars. He explained that "there is not a single weak moment on the disc" and that "the quality of the songs gets stronger and stronger as the album progresses". He concluded: "If you had to own just one Gary Numan album, ''The Pleasure Principle'' would be it." Robert Christgau rated the album a B. He stated that it was where "metal machine music goes easy-listening." He also stated: "[...] this time he's singing about robots, engineers, and isolation. In such a slight artist, these things make all the difference."
# "Airlane" - 3:18 # "Metal" - 3:32 # "Complex" - 3:12 # "Films" - 4:09 # "M.E." - 5:37 # "Tracks" - 2:51 # "Observer" - 2:53 # "Conversation" - 7:36 # "Cars" - 3:58 # "Engineers" - 4:01 CD bonus tracks # "Random" (Demo) - 3:49 # "Oceans" (Demo) - 3:03 # "Asylum" (B-Side of Cars) - 2:31 # "Me! I Disconnect From You" (Live) - 3:06 # "Bombers" (Live) - 5:46 # "Remember I Was Vapour" (Live)* - 4:46 # "On Broadway" (Live) (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 4:48
Disc One # "Airlane" # "Metal" # "Complex" # "Films" # "M.E." # "Tracks" # "Observer" # "Conversations" # "Cars" # "Engineers"
Disc Two' # "Airlane (Demo Version)" # "Metal (Demo Version)" # "Complex (Demo Version)" # "Films (Demo Version)" # "M.E. (Demo Version)" # "Tracks (Demo Version)" # "Observer (Demo Version)" # "Conversation (Demo Version 2)" # "Cars (Demo Version)" # "Engineers (Demo Version)" # "Random (2009 Remaster)" # "Oceans (2009 Remaster)" # "Asylum (2009 Remaster)" # "Photograph (2009 Remaster)" # "Gymnopedies No. 1 (Demo Version)" # "Conversation (Demo Version 1)" # "M.E. (Out Take Mix)"
Disc Three (Bonus tracks only available on the 3CD version available from the Numan website) # "Down in the Park (The Live EPs - 1980)" # "On Broadway (The Live EPs - 1980)" # "Every Day I Die (The Live EPs - 1980)" # "Remember I Was Vapour (The Live EPs - 1980)" # "Bombers (The Live EPs - 1980)" # "Me! I Disconnect From You (The Live EPs - 1979)" # "Conversation (The Live EPs - 1979)" # "Metal (The Live EPs - 1979)" # "Down in the Park (The Live EPs - 1979)" # "Airlane (Living Ornaments '79)" # "Cars (Living Ornaments '79)" # "We Are So Fragile (Living Ornaments '79)" # "Films (Living Ornaments '79)" # "Something's In The House (Living Ornaments '79)" # "My Shadow In Vain (Living Ornaments '79)" # "Conversation (Living Ornaments '79)" # "The Dream Police (Living Ornaments '79)" # "Metal (Living Ornaments '79)"
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