List of Advance subsidiaries

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

The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local

Alabama Media Group

• AL.com and The Lede
  • The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama)
  • The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Alabama)
  • Press-Register (Mobile, Alabama)
• Alabama Education Lab
• Red Clay Media
  • It's a Southern Thing
  • This is Alabama
  • People of Alabama

Advance Publications purchased Street & Smith Publications, Inc. in August 1959.^[1][2] 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^[3]
• The Esports Observer^[4]
• SportTechie^[5]
• Newzoo^[6]

• Street & Smith, acquired 1959
• POP, acquired 2013^[7][8]
• reddit.com:^[9] "Reddit used to be owned by Condé Nast, but in 2011 it was moved out from under Condé Nast to Advance Publications, which is Condé Nast's parent company. Then in 2012, Reddit was spun out into a re-incorporated independent entity with its own board and control of its own finances, hiring a new CEO and bringing back co-founder Alexis Ohanian to serve on the board. Reddit has 3 sets of shareholders: The largest shareholder is still Advance Publications. The second-largest set of shareholders are Reddit employees. In the spin-out that occurred in early 2012, Advance voluntarily reduced its sole ownership to that of a partial owner in order to put ownership in the hands of current and future employees. The third and smallest fraction consists of a set of angel investors."^[10]
• Charter Communications shareholder following May 2016 merger of Bright House Networks
• The IRONMAN Group, acquired March 2020^[11]
• Warner Bros. Discovery, carried over from its predecessor Discovery, Inc.
• Turnitin an Internet-based plagiarism detection service.

• RCA purchased Random House in 1965 and later sold it to Advance Publications in 1980.^[12] Advance sold Random House to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1998.^[13]
• 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^[14]
• Religion News Service (sold 2011 to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association)^[15]
• 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)

Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.

Note:

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