Newsday, the local Long Island daily owned by Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), has made some changes on the publishing side. The newspaper is promoting publisher Terry Jimenez to the role of president of Newsday Media Group and tapped sales head Fred Groser to succeed him in his current post.

While Newsday.com’s tall paywall hasn’t attracted even three dozen subscribers, the Cablevision-owned newspaper is still hoping to attract real estate advertisers and prospective home buyers to its relaunched classified ad portal, Optimum Homes. The revamped classified channel will fulfill part of the plans that Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) intended when it…

This week’s coverage of Newsday Publisher Terry Jimenez’s acknowledgment that Newsday.com has sold only 35 online-only subscriptions since putting up a high paywall prompted an staff-wide strategy memo from Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) brass. Tad Smith, the former CEO of RBI USA who joined Cablevision as president of local media last…

Updated to include Newsday’s response. It sounds like Newsday is fulfilling at least one part of its paywall plan: not selling online subscriptions. Sure, subscriptions are available but unlike the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT)  or others who are looking at various pay models to raise income, the real…

There’s a bit of a hole in the pay wall set up by Newsday, the Long Island newspaper owned by Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) Systems: users with defunct Optimum Online broadband accounts have been able to log in to read the news, too.

Debby Krenek, who led the recent switch of Newsday.com to a subscription-only site, has been rewarded with a promotion to editor in chief of Newsday and EVP-digital media. effective immediately. It’s her second stint at the top of a major New York newspaper. Krenek was EIC of the New York…

Updated: Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) is testing the power of its combined ownership of Newsday and the dominant Long Island broadband provider with a bold move: making access to most of Newsday.com an exclusive benefit for print subscribers and its Optimum Online customers throughout the New York area as of Oct.…

Cablevision’s questionable decision to buy fellow Long Island-er Newsday last summer will result in a writedown ranging from $375 million and $450 million for its 2008 earnings, the company said in an SEC filing. The cable operator, which reports its Q4 and full-year ‘08 earnings on Feb. 26, bought Newsday…

Just because Newsday is now owned by a cable company instead of a newspaper publisher doesn’t mean it can escape the inevitable. The Long Island daily is the latest newspaper to take out the job ax, as Crain’s NY Business says the paper is cutting 100 posts, or 5 percent…

Three months into completely owning Newsday, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) has come out with some more numbers about the newspaper’s financial situation last year and first half of this year, in an SEC filing late Friday, also picked up by Rich Greenfield. Newsday was bought in July for about $650 million.…

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) has received the green light from the FTC for its acquisition of Long Island newspaper Newsday, according to Reuters. This wasn’t expected to be a major hurdle, but antitrust issues came up a lot during the bidding. When Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NYSE: NWS) was seen as…

As expected, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) has won the Newsday-stakes, and will acquire 97 percent of the Tribune-owned paper for $632 million. Tribune will get another $18 million related to prepaid rent, bringing the total value of the transaction to $650 million. The announcement touts the potential for the Long Island-based…

Update: A slew of reports Sunday from a variety of media outlets (who could all be talking to the same person as far as we know) claiming that a deal could be announced as soon as Monday. We’ll go with Newsday, which actually talked to CVC’s Charles Dolan” “I think…

Offering to outspend Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman by $70 million to acquire Newsday from Tribune Co., Cablevision Systems Corp (NYSE: CVC). has formally bid $650 million, according to the paper’s sources. The two publishers were being given the chance to up their matching $580 million bids, but AP is…

Yesterday, reports had Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) making a joint bid, possibly with Jared Kushner, for Newsday, the Long Island-based paper. Now WSJ is reporting that the cable operator is willing to pay $650 million, though it doesn’t say anything on whether this is a joint bid or not. According to…

Don’t count on Newsday, the Tribune-owned Long Island paper, going to News Corp (NYSE: NWS). just yet. Not only is Zuckerman still in the hunt, but new reports have Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) (the LI-based cable operator) making some kind of play for the company. Reuters suggests that the company may…

Newspaper and internet analyst Lauren Rich Fine retired last year after 19 years with Merrill Lynch. Her post-ML activities include Practitioner in Residence at Kent State University’s College of Communication and Information and the Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute. Rupert Murdoch is – a) addicted to newspapers, b) addicted…

Add Jared Kushner, owner of the New York Observer, to the pool of potential suitors for Newsday, according to the Wall Street Journal. Those already reported to be interested include Rupert Murdoch and News Corp (NYSE: NWS). the Dolans and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), and Mort Zuckerman, owner of the NY…

Privately-held Tribune has filed its 10-K, a day after reports suggested that the company was shopping Newsday. Also yesterday, the company released Q4 numbers showing it had swung to a loss. The filing gives a fuller picture of the challenge ahead for owner Sam Zell, as he copes with a…