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- Advance Publications
- Advance Publications is a privately held company
- www.advance.net
- 1895
- Solomon Neuhaus born in New York City. Later changes name to Samuel Irving Newhouse (Si).
- 1911
- Newhouse works his way up from office boy to managing the Bayonne Times
- 1920
- Newhouse purchases a stake in the Fitchburg Daily News. Newhouse owns the paper for less than a year. After struggling with circulation and revenue, Newhouse makes a deal with the other newspaper in town, The Sentinel, to be bought out. The owner of the Sentinel pays $15,000 to have the Daily News go out of business to ensure that there is only one newspaper remaining.
- 1922
- Newhouse purchases stake in the Staten Island Advance
- 1923
- Newhouse takes over the position of publisher of Staten Island Advance
- 1932
- Newhouse purchases a 51% stake in the Long Island Press from the Ridder brothers for $600,000
- 1934
- Newhouse purchases a 51% stake in the Newark Ledger for $310,000
- 1939
- Newhouse purchases two Syracuse, NY newspapers, the Herald and Journal (from William Randolph Hearst). Both newspapers are combined to form The Syracuse Herald-Journal
- 1939
- Newhouse purchases the Newark Star-Eagle. Combines both newspapers in Newark to form The Star-Ledger
- 1942
- Newhouse purchases Syracuse Post-Standard. Announcement of purchase is delayed until 1944 to avoid criticism from employees that the Syracuse papers would be merged and jobs cut
- 1945
- Newhouse purchases stake in the Jersey Journal
- 1947
- Newhouse associate Edwin Russell purchases the Harrisburg Patriot and Evening News
- 1948
- Newhouse purchases the Harrisburg Telegraph. Less than two months later the newspaper goes out of business
- 1950
- Newhouse purchases The Oregonian for $5.6 million, at the time the largest newspaper sale ever
- 1955
- Newhouse purchases St. Louis Globe-Democrat for $6.5 million, another record
- 1955
- Newhouse purchases Birmingham News and Huntsville Times for a combined $18.7 million, another record
- 1959
- Newhouse acquires Street & Smith magazine group
- 1959
- Newhouse acquires Conde Nast magazine group
- 1961
- Newhouse acquires the Oregon Journal for $8 Million
- 1962
- Newhouse purchases New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper group (includes the Times-Picayune and States-Item) for $42 million, another record
- 1962
- Samuel Newhouse appears on the July 27 cover of Time magazine
- 1964
- Syracuse dedicates its new School of Communications Center in the name of Samuel Newhouse, the largest gift to Syracuse by a living donor
- 1966
- Newhouse acquires three Springfield (Mass) newspapers News, Republican, and Union
- 1966
- Newhouse acquires Mobile Register, Mobile Press and Mississippi Press-Register
- 1967
- Newhouse purchases the Cleveland Plain-Dealer for $54.2 million, another record
- 1976
- Newhouse gains total ownership of the eight Booth newspapers and Parade Magazine for $305 million
- 1977
- Long Island Press ceases operations
- 1979
- Samuel Sr. dies from complications of a stroke. Si Jr. controls the magazine operations while Donald Newhouse oversees the newspapers.
- 1980
- Advance Publications purchases Random House book publishers from RCA for $70 million
- 1980
- Advance sells five television stations to the Times Mirror Publishing Company for $82 million. Part of the funds from the sale helps Advance purchase cable television systems
- 1980
- New Orleans Times-Picayune merges with the Statesman
- 1981
- Advance has over 500,000 cable television subscribers
- 1982
- Advance purchases Fawcett Books from CBS
- 1982
- Portland Oregon Journal merges with the Oregonian
- 1982
- Cleveland Press ceases operations. Advance's Cleveland Plain-Dealer becomes the city's only daily newspaper. Allegations are made against Si. Jr. and Donald that they paid The Press' owner Joseph Cole to go out of business
- 1983
- Advance re-launches Vanity Fair as a glossy celebrity magazine
- 1984
- Advance sells the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
- 1985
- A grand jury begins an anti-trust investigation centering on Advance's role in the demise of the Cleveland Press. Charges are never filed
- 1986
- Random House acquires Fodor's Travel Guides
- 1988
- Random House buys Crown Publishing Group
- 1995
- Newhouse and Time Warner Cable combine cable systems to create large clusters
- 1998
- Advance Publications sells the Random House-Alfred A. Knopf-Crown Publishing group to Bertelsmann
- 1999
- Disney sells Fairchild Publications (W, Jane and Women's Wear Daily) to Advance
- 2000
- Advance acquires a group of newspapers in New Jersey and Easton, PA from MediaNews. Titles include: Gloucester County Times, Today's Sunbeam (Salem), Bridgeton Evening News, and Express-Times (Easton).
- 2001
- Syracuse Herald-Journal closes
- 2001
- Conde Nast Publications closes fashion magazine Mademoiselle
- 2002
- Advance purchases Modern Bride magazine group from Primedia for $52 million
- 2002
- Advance and AOL Time Warner disband their cable partnership. Advance changes the name of its cable operations to Bright House cable.
- 2003
- Forbes magazine estimates the combined worth of Si. Jr. and Donald Newhouse at $15 billion
- Newspapers
- The Birmingham News (Alabama)
- Harrisburg Patriot-News (Pennsylvania)
- Express-Times (Easton, PA)
- The Allentown Times (Pennsylvania)
- The Huntsville Times (Alabama)
- Mobile Register (Alabama)
- The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, NJ)
- The Star- Ledger (Newark, NJ)
- The Gloucester County Times (NJ)
- Today's Sunbeam in Salem (NJ)
- Bridgeton Evening News (NJ)
- The Trenton Times ( NJ)
- Mississippi Press (Pascagoula)
- The Oregonian (Portland)
- Hillsboro Argus (Oregon)
- Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
- Staten Island Advance (NY)
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