List of Advance subsidiaries#Leaders Group

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This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications Inc.

Local media groups

The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local

=Advance Media New York=

=Advance Ohio=

=Alabama Media Group=

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=MassLive Media=

=[[MLive Media Group]]=

=NJ Advance Media=

=Oregonian Media Group=

=PA Media Group=

=Staten Island Media Group=

American City Business Journals

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Leaders Group

Advance Publications purchased Street & Smith Publications, Inc. in August 1959."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 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{{cite press release |title=The Esports Observer now fully integrated with SBJ |publisher=Street & Smiths Sports Business Journal |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2021/07/12/TEO-Integration.aspx |access-date=November 27, 2023}}
  • The Esports Observer{{cite news |title=Advance Publications buys The Esports Observer as a new sport emerges |first=Dean |last=Takahashi |date=October 25, 2018 |work=VentureBeat |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/advance-publications-buys-the-esports-observer-as-a-new-sport-emerges/ |access-date=November 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206175013/https://venturebeat.com/business/advance-publications-buys-the-esports-observer-as-a-new-sport-emerges/ |archive-date=December 6, 2022 |url-status=live}}
  • SportTechie{{cite press release |title=Leaders Group, Parent Company of Sports Business Journal, Agrees to Acquire SportTechie |date=October 7, 2021 |work=Leaders Group |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2021/10/07/Technology/leaders-group-parent-company-of-sports-business-journal-agrees-to-acquire-sporttechie.aspx |access-date=November 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124074900/https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2021/10/07/Technology/leaders-group-parent-company-of-sports-business-journal-agrees-to-acquire-sporttechie.aspx |archive-date=November 24, 2023 |url-status=live}}
  • Newzoo{{cite news |title=Advance Publications acquires stake in esports and games analytics firm Newzoo |first=Dean |last=Takahashi |date=October 10, 2018 |work=VentureBeat |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/advance-publications-acquires-stake-in-esports-and-games-analytics-firm-newzoo/ |access-date=November 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610014033/https://venturebeat.com/business/advance-publications-acquires-stake-in-esports-and-games-analytics-firm-newzoo/ |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |url-status=live}}

Condé Nast

=Print=

=Digital=

Former and defunct divisions

  • RCA purchased Random House in 1965 and later sold it to Advance Publications in 1980.{{cite web|title=RCA History|url=http://www.bobsamerica.com/rca-history.html|website=bobsamerica|access-date=October 3, 2015}} Advance sold Random House to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1998.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/29/weekinreview/the-world-bertelsmann-swallows-random-house-american-pop-culture-foreign-owned.html|title=The World: Bertelsmann Swallows Random House; American Pop Culture, Foreign-Owned|date=March 29, 1998|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 12, 2016}}
  • 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 2007–2008 financial crisis; based in Washington, D.C., its staff served as a national news bureau to all publications in the Advance portfolio{{cite news |title=Newhouse News Service Shutters After 47 Years |first=Fern |last=Siegel |date=July 30, 2008 |work=MediaDailyNews |publisher=Media Post |url=https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/87561/newhouse-news-service-shutters-after-47-years.html?edition= |access-date=October 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411233733/https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/87561/newhouse-news-service-shutters-after-47-years.html?edition= |archive-date=April 11, 2022 |url-status=live}}
  • Religion News Service (sold 2011 to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association){{cite web|url=http://archives.religionnews.com/press-releases/religion-news-service-enters-nonprofit-partnership-with-religion-newswriter/|title=Religion News Service – Press Releases – Religion News Service Enters Nonprofit Partnership with Religion Newswriters Foundation|access-date=October 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013145216/http://archives.religionnews.com/press-releases/religion-news-service-enters-nonprofit-partnership-with-religion-newswriter/|archive-date=October 13, 2016|url-status=dead}}
  • 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)

Formerly-owned television stations

Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.

Note:

  • (**) – Indicates a station that was built and signed-on by Advance/Newhouse.

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! City of license / market

! Station

! Channel
TV / (RF)

! Years owned

! Current ownership status

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| BirminghamTuscaloosaAnniston

| WABT/WAPI-TV

| 13 (13)

| 1956–1980

| NBC affiliate, WVTM-TV, owned by Hearst Television

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| St. Louis

| KTVI

| 2 (43)

| 1955–1980

| Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

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| Elmira, New York

| WSYE-TV **

| 18 (18)

| 1956–1980

| NBC affiliate, WETM-TV, owned by Nexstar Media Group

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| Syracuse, New York

| WSYR-TV **

| 3 (24)

| 1950–1980

| NBC affiliate, WSTM-TV, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group

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| Portland

| KOIN

| 6 (40)

| 1953–1977

| CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

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| HarrisburgLancaster -
LebanonYork

| WTPA **

| 27 (10)

| 1953–1980

| ABC affiliate, WHTM-TV, owned by Nexstar Media Group

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