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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Baltimore City Paper: New Issue: Tribune Media's ongoing troubles, Yeveto's cinematic music, and Putty Hill goes to video.

Baltimore City Paper: New Issue: Tribune Media's ongoing troubles, Yeveto's cinematic music, and Putty Hill goes to video.

Issue Contents 11/9/2011

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James O’Shea

Feature: The former Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor talks about the "deal from hell," Tribune Company's bankruptcy, and journalism's scramble for footing on the internet. By Edward Ericson Jr. 11/9/2011

Murder Ink

Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 3; Murders this Year: 175 . By Anna Ditkoff 11/9/2011

Cracking the Penal Code

Mobtown Beat: Maryland crack-cocaine convicts set free under federal sentencing reform. By Van Smith 11/9/2011

Future Islands Tip the Needle on the Vomit-o-meter

The Mail: . 11/9/2011

Arts and Entertainment

Private Lives

Stage: Everyman delivers a viciously funny take on Noel Coward's classic. By Andrea Appleton 11/9/2011

The Threepenny Opera

Stage: A DIY production of Bertolt Brecht's classic promises your money's worth. By Laura Dattaro 11/9/2011

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Stage: A challenging, mixed-race production of the Tennessee Williams play exposes the unspoken. By Andrew Holter 11/9/2011

Boundary Proof

Art: New Guest Spot show explores the phenomenon of borders. By Chloe Helton-Gallagher 11/9/2011

Print by Print: Series From Dürer to Lichtenstein

Art: Baltimore Museum of Art show pays homage to prints made in series. By Andrea Appleton 11/9/2011

Chuck Palahniuk: Damned

Books: Author of Fight Club, Choke cooks up a hallucinatory vision of hell. By Laura Dattaro 11/9/2011

Rev Jan: Elf Girl

Books: Jen Miller, aka Rev Jen, is a self-created cult figure, the "patron saint of the uncool," and her newest book is a celebration of all the uncool things she's done.. By Andrea Appleton 11/9/2011

Music

Singles Mixer: Rome Cee, TT the Artist

Know Your Product: The virtue of a king and she's doing everything right. By Michael Byrne 11/9/2011

Yeveto

Music: Local creators of variable moods and cinematic scores harvest a new record from four years of ideas. By Jared T. Fischer11/9/2011

Tom Lawrence: Water Beetles of Pollardstown Fen

Listening Party: The microsonic world of a collection of aquatic insects biding their scant days on this earth in the waters of an alkaline marsh in County Kildaire, Ireland.. By Lee Gardner11/9/2011

The Short List

The Short List: Mobtown Modern at 2640, 11111 Ball of Wonder at Floristree, new music at the Red Room, and more.. By Michael Byrne 11/9/2011

Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason: Sólaris

Listening Party: The field of music in which something as potentially corny or cliché as a sample of wolves howling could be dropped unironically is limited to pretty much Ben Frost's 2009 freak crossover LP. By Michael Byrne 11/2/2011

Film+Video

Putty Hill/Hamilton

Film: Matt Porterfield's portraits of his Baltimore hometown hit home video. By Lee Gardner 11/9/2011

New This Week

New This Week: House, Immortals, J. Edgar, Jack and Jill, Like Crazy, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. 11/9/2011

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Film: Two new talents with a similarly gifted up-and-coming cast have crafted a film that shows the careful restraint and artistic clarity not often seen in newcomers. By Laura Dattaro 11/2/2011

The Son of No One

Film: It should come as no surprise to any fans of writer/director Dito Montiel (Fighting, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) that his latest movie stars Channing Tatum. Montiel has an affinity for cas. By Danielle Ariano 11/2/2011

The Skin I Live In

Film: Pedro Almodóvar's latest isn't as good as it looks. By Lee Gardner 11/2/2011

A Serbian Film

Film: Porn, a child's exposure to porn, explicit sex, physical abuse and degradation, explicit sex in front of a child, pedophilia, forced drug use, rape, murder, necrophilia, more physical abuse and degradation. By Lee Gardner 11/2/2011

Eats+Drinks

Aloha Sushi

Free Range: Charles Street perch makes midtown sushi appealing. By Mary K. Zajac 11/9/2011

Fresh Tex Mex Restaurant and Carry Out

Cheap Eats: By Michael Byrne 11/9/2011

Columns

Roughing It

Where I Come From: Last month, I asked the mayor to sleep with me-not just for kicks, mind you, but to show solidarity with Baltimore's most vulnerable residents.. By Lionel Foster 11/9/2011

Comics

Lulu Eightball

Lulu Eightball: By Emily Flake 11/9/2011

Dirt Farm

Dirt Farm: By Ben Claassen III 11/9/2011

Important Comics

Important Comics: By Dina Kelberman 11/9/2011
Lost & Found: The Secrets of Archimedes. At the Walters through Jan. 1.
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In Arts and Minds

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Mikulski, Maryland Scientists Mark Opening of James Webb Space Telescope Exhibit in Baltimore

Erotica Show at Pigtown’s Gallery 788

Calling All Towson University Art Alums

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In Noise

Thank You Announces Retirement Plans; Actual Thank Yous To Ensue

Final Thoughts From Double Dagger on Shoe-Licking, Being Pissed Off, T-Shirt Smuggling, and More

Rome Cee Gets Back in the Ring

Reina Williams Takes On Simon Cowell and The X-Factor

More in Noise

Baltimore City Paper: New Issue: Tribune Media's ongoing troubles, Yeveto's cinematic music, and Putty Hill goes to video.

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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Tribune Co. creditors court Michael Eisner and Jeff Shell for top jobs

Tribune Co. creditors court Michael Eisner and Jeff Shell for top jobs

August 25, 2010

Former Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael D. Eisner is in discussions that could lead to his return to the media spotlight – as chairman of the now-bankrupt Tribune Co.
The media company’s largest creditors are having preliminary conversations with prospective candidates who could operate Tribune once it emerges from bankruptcy, according to several people with knowledge of the situation.
Eisner, who has been dabbling in the digital world as an investor since stepping down from Disney in 2005, is among the candidates under consideration to replace Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell as chairman of the reorganized company.
Discussions about new management at Tribune are still exploratory, people close to one of the creditors cautioned. Senior creditors can’t make changes until a plan is in place allowing the company to emerge from its nearly two-year legal morass.
Tribune owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, KTLA-TV Channel 5 and 22 other TV stations and six newspapers.
Under one scenario being discussed by the senior creditors, Eisner, who is 68, would be joined by Jeff Shell, a former News Corp. cable executive who is now in top management at Comcast Corp., according to four people with knowledge of the talks. Shell would become chief executive of Tribune, replacing Randy Michaels.
Eisner was unavailable for comment, according to his spokeswoman. But he told Variety in a wide-ranging interview Monday that he has been accumulating Tribune debt. “You are talking to somebody who is buying debt in the Tribune Co. The salvation of the newspaper is some kind of pay arrangement [online], which will evolve into something significant,” Eisner said in the interview.
Shell, 44, a Los Angeles native who runs Comcast’s cable channels group from the company’s headquarters in Philadelphia, declined to comment. Earlier in his career, Shell worked for Disney on the strategic planning staff when Eisner ran the company.
Tribune and its creditors are still struggling to negotiate a settlement around charges that Zell’s 2007 leveraged buyout was a case of "fraudulent conveyance," meaning the transaction rendered the company insolvent from Day One. That settlement would serve as the basis for a plan of reorganization, but depending on how negotiations go, it could be months in coming or the case could easily devolve into litigation...  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/08/hold.html

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Owner of the Baltimore Sun, Tribune plans $16 mln in bonuses on bankruptcy exit

Tribune plans $16 mln in bonuses on bankruptcy exit

Wed May 26, 2010 Total program less than originally proposed By Tom Hals

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2621196520100526

WILMINGTON, Del., May 26 (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Tribune Co plans to pay top managers $16.2 million in bonuses and incentives when it exits bankruptcy under its plan of reorganization, according to court documents.

About $10.3 million of the payments will go to the company's top 20 managers for hitting the top of the company's 2009 cash flow projections, according to documents filed on Monday in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court.

The company, which owns the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times as well as radio and television businesses, also plans to pay $4.6 million to 19 managers that head the company's operating units, based on last year's performance.
Five of those managers are also getting bonus payments under the cash flow-based program.

The company has been operating in bankruptcy since 2008 and has enjoyed a rebound with the stabilizing economy. Only two managers of operating units will not receive a bonus payment for the 2009 performance.

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Read the entire story here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2621196520100526

20100526 Tribune plans 16 mln in bonuses on bankruptcy exit

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Tribune Names Julio Marenghi Executive Vice President/Sales and Distribution for WGN America

TRIBUNE COMPANY PRESS RELEASE
June 9, 2009

Tribune Names Julio Marenghi Executive Vice President/Sales
and Distribution for WGN America

CHICAGO, June 9, 2009 — Tribune Company today announced the
appointment of Julio Marenghi as executive vice
president/sales and distribution for WGN America. Marenghi,
an industry veteran with more than 30 years of sales
experience, will be responsible for leading all top line
sales efforts, growing distribution and managing the
national cable channel’s day-to-day operations.

“Julio is a proven leader who understands every facet of the
business,” said Ed Wilson, president of Tribune
Broadcasting. “He’s innovative and talented and the
strong relationships he’s forged across the television
advertising industry will serve WGN America well. He’s
the right guy for this position and his consistently
successful record speaks for itself.”

Prior to joining WGN America, Marenghi held significant
leadership roles at CBS Television Stations. Most
recently as president/advertising sales, he was responsible
for the strategic management, operation and top line sales
of 27 stations. His leadership of local, national and
digital sales operations and marketing efforts enabled the
station group to increase market share by 10% and improve
the revenue rank in all of CBS’ top 7 markets. He was
also responsible for building the company’s first business
development and marketing division.

“WGN America is a great brand with tremendous potential for
growth—I want to expand our reach and take this operation to
the next level,” Marenghi said. “To do that, we must
boldly define our brand and give advertisers the kind of
customized solutions that best meet their needs in a highly
competitive marketplace.”

Marenghi’s experience also includes serving as president and
general manager of CBS’ New England triopoly of stations and
numerous sales positions at television stations on the east
and west coasts.

Marenghi is a Boston native and a die-hard Red Sox fan who
says he has recently developed a strong interest in the
Chicago Cubs.

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CONTACT:
» Gary Weitman (Tribune)
SVP/Corporate Relations
gweitman@tribune.com
312/222-3394

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TRIBUNE is America’s largest employee-owned media company,
operating businesses in publishing, interactive and
broadcasting. In publishing, Tribune’s leading daily
newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,
The Baltimore Sun, Sun-Sentinel (South Florida), Orlando
Sentinel, Hartford Courant, Morning Call and Daily
Press. The Company’s broadcasting group operates 23
television stations, WGN America on national cable,
Chicago’s WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball
team. Popular news and information websites complement
Tribune’s print and broadcast properties and extend the
Company’s nationwide audience. At Tribune we take what
we do seriously and with a great deal of pride. We also
value the creative spirit and are nurturing a corporate
culture that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

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To view this press release online, go to:
http://www.tribune.com/pressroom/releases/2009/06092009.html

To view all Tribune press releases on the Internet, go to:
http://www.tribune.com/pressroom/releases/index.html

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase

Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase

By:
Lorene Yue April 15, 2009 Crain’s Chicago Business

(Crain’s) —
Sam Zell admits that taking over Tribune Co. hasn’t gone according to plan and was a “mistake.”

“The definition if you bought something and it’s now worth a great deal less, you made a mistake,” he told Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. “And I’m more than willing to say I made a mistake. I was too optimistic in terms of the newspaper’s ability to preserve its position.”

The Chicago billionaire, who made his fortune from commercial real estate, was instrumental in taking the parent of the
Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times private through a complex deal that saddled it with $13 billion in debt. Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, a move Mr. Zell said in Wednesday’s interview was necessary to “stop the bleeding and preserve a great company.”

The process that Mr. Zell used to take Tribune private caught the attention recently of the U.S. Department of Labor, which last month subpoenaed the company for documents related to its Employees Stock Ownership Plan, now the sole owner of
Tribune Co.

Read the rest here: Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase

(20071028 Tribune, Patuxent Publishing Group, Baltimore Sun disclosure Kevin Dayhoff writes for three of the newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing Group, the Sunday Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle and Eldersburg Eagle. The Patuxent Publishing Group is owned by “Tribune.” Tribune also owns the Baltimore Sun – and as a matter of fact, the Sunday Carroll Eagle is distributed in the Sunday edition of the Baltimore Sun – see: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers.”) Additionally I write for an online magazine, The Tentacle.)

20090415 Zell admits mistake in TribCo purchase by Lorene Yue
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=33701
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

20080701 Tribune Company Press Release: Jana Gavin named senior director/business development for Tribune Interactive

TRIBUNE COMPANY PRESS RELEASE

July 1, 2008

The Noise You Can’t Ignore Grows Louder in Chicago


(Please see my
Dayhoff Media disclosures)

CHICAGO, July 1, 2008 -- Wikipedia says, “The Jacor name is retired from broadcasting,” but the roaring bark of Jacor’s mascot bulldog is being heard loud and clear in Chicago. That bark added more bite this week when Tribune Interactive President Marc Chase named Jana Gavin senior director/business development for Tribune Interactive.

Gavin is part of a growing team of Jacor veterans now working for Tribune, which includes Chase, Sean Compton (senior vice president/programming for Tribune Broadcasting), Steve Gable (chief technology officer), Russ Gilbert (vice president/digital innovation) and Special Consultant Roy Laughlin. Sam Zell owned Jacor Communications and Randy Michaels, Tribune chief operating officer, ran the media corporation from 1993 to 1999.

During that time, Michaels and his Jacor warriors dominated radio by having the best-programmed and highly-rated stations, and built Jacor into a vastly-valued and widely-respected company by focusing on its audience, employees and investors. Michaels became chief executive officer of Clear Channel Radio when it acquired Jacor in 1999; the transaction provided a healthy profit for Jacor’s shareholders.

“When I hear Chase, Compton, and now Jana Gavin referred to as ‘Clear Channel’ people, I laugh. Media veterans know they are Jacor!” said Kim Johnson, Tribune Interactive’s senior vice president/local sales (who never worked for Jacor, but wishes she did). “Jacor people are known for being fierce competitors and playing to win, so teaming up with the great staff already at Tribune gives us a significant leg up on the rest of the market. Sales people know it’s easier to sell media products with the largest and most-loyal audiences. And Jana knows how to make the cash register ring from her time at Jacor as vice president/non-traditional revenue, where she was responsible for an $85 million annual budget.”

Gavin’s appointment is effective immediately. She will be based in Columbus, Ohio.


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CONTACTS:

Media Contacts:
Gary Weitman
Tribune Company
gweitman@tribune.com
312/222-3394

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TRIBUNE (NYSE:TRB) is one of the country’s top media companies, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. It reaches more than 80 percent of U.S.

households and is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nation’s top three markets. In publishing, Tribune’s leading daily newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.), The Sun (Baltimore), South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and Hartford Courant.

The company’s broadcasting group operates 23 television stations, WGN America on national cable, Chicago’s WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information websites complement Tribune’s print and broadcast properties and extend the company’s nationwide audience.

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To view this press release online, go to:
http://www.tribune.com/pressroom/releases/2008/07012008.html

To view all Tribune press releases on the Internet, go to:
http://www.tribune.com/pressroom/releases/index.html

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Tribune Corporate Relations
435 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
www.tribune.com

Friday, April 04, 2008

20080402 Patuxent Publishing Company president Jim Quimby departing

Patuxent Publishing Company president Jim Quimby departing

Quimby led company's expansion into Carroll County

04/02/08 By Jennifer Broadwater

The president of Patuxent Publishing Co., which publishes the Eldersburg Eagle, will leave the company in early May.

Jim Quimby, who has served as president of Patuxent since 2000, will depart May 2 as part of a reorganization of the company, he said March 25.

Patuxent is operated by The Baltimore Sun Co., which, along with Patuxent, is owned by Tribune Co., a Chicago-based company owned by Sam Zell.

(Disclosure: I write for the Westminster Eagle and the Eldersburg Eagle, also owned by “Tribune”. Tribune also owns the Baltimore Sun – and as a matter of fact, I also write for the Sunday Carroll Eagle which is distributed in the Sunday edition of the Baltimore Sun – see: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers”)

Sun publisher and CEO Timothy Ryan announced Quimby's departure in a statement. Ryan did not return telephone calls seeking comment on Quimby's departure.

Beginning April 9, Trish Carroll will take over as senior vice president of the Baltimore Sun Media Group's "targeted print" publications, which include those produced by Patuxent and its sister company, Homestead Publishing, in Harford County, and b, a free daily tabloid The Sun intends to launch in mid-April.

Headquartered in Columbia, Patuxent publishes 18 newspapers in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro areas, and several magazines and local telephone directories. Its 275 employees work in offices in Westminster, Columbia, Ellicott City, Laurel and Towson.

Carroll worked for The Sun for 16 years, in a variety of roles before taking a job directing operations and technology at The Olympian, a McClatchy Co.-owned newspaper in the state of Washington.

'A true professional'

Quimby will leave the company after 37 years in the publishing business, including nearly eight years at the helm of Patuxent.

Quimby, 55, of Harford County, described his tenure at Patuxent as a "phenomenal" experience. He said he is unsure of his next step.

"My first words to her were, 'Congratulations, you just got the best job in the whole world,' " Quimby said he told Carroll. "It's a phenomenal opportunity to work at a place like the community newspapers."

His career began in 1970, when he landed a job selling advertising for Harford County-based Susquehanna Publishing, which was purchased by The Baltimore Sun Co. in 1989.

He later worked in operations, press and packaging, circulation and distribution. He helped merge two competing newspapers in Harford County to form Homestead Publishing Co., for which he served as general manager.

In September 2000, he was named president of the Baltimore Sun Community Newspaper Group, which includes Homestead and Patuxent.

During his tenure as president, the company expanded into Carroll County with its purchase of The Eldersburg Eagle from founder David Greenwalt and the creation of The Westminster Eagle. It launched The Sunday Carroll Eagle in 2007.

Patuxent purchased Chesapeake Home magazine in 2005 and the Ellicott City-based The View newspapers in 2007.

Reporter Jay Thompson contributed to this story.