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Freedom Communications: 625 N. Grand Ave.
Santa Ana, CA 92701; Voice (714) 796-7000; www.freedom.com; Freedom Communications was purchased by 2100 Trust, LLC on July 25, 2012. The company's website provides a brief timeline of its history, including a bankruptcy reorginization in 2009 and the selling of its broadcast unit to Sinclair Broadcast Group in 2011.

Holdings

Newpapers: Arizona; Yuma Sun; Bajo El Sol (Yuma); California; Appeal-Democrat (Marysville); Daily Press (Victorville); Desert Dispatch (Barstow); Porterville Recorder (Porterville); The Orange County Register (Santa Ana); Anaheim Hills News; Canyon Life/Rancho Santa Margarita; Capistrano Valley News; Colusa Sun Herald (Colusa); Corning Observer (Corning); Dana Point News; El Mojave (Barstow); Excelsior; Fountain Valley View; Fullerton News Tribune; Hesperia Star (Hesperia); Huntington Beach Wave; Irvine World News; La Habra/Brea Star Progress; Ladera Post; Laguna News-Post; Laguna Niguel/Aliso Viejo News; Laguna Woods Globe; Noticiero Semanal (Porterville); Orange City News; Orland Press Register (Orland); Placentia News-Times; Saddleback Valley News-Mission; Saddleback Valley News-Lake Forest; Sun Post News (San Clemente); The Current (Newport Beach/Costa); The Leader (Barstow); Tustin News; Willows Journal (Willows); Yorba Linda Star; Missouri; Whiteman Warrior (Sedalia); County Plainsman-6 zones (Sedalia); Ohio; Putnam Voice (Lima)
Magazines: California; Coast Magazine; Coast Kids Magazine; OrangeCounty.com Magazine; Segerstrom Center for the Arts; South Coast Repertory Program; Custom Publishing; Texas; South Texas Outdoors; Rio Grande Valley Sports; Rio Grande Valley Moms
Other: Freedom Interactive; last updated 4/23/2013

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