Rafat Ali
Oct 1, 2009 5:36 PM
BusinessWeek employees, read this carefully. Could be your potential future owner. TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE Firm OpenGate Capital (one of the four shortlist bidders for BW), laid off Pete Haeffner, TV Guide publisher since October 2005, along with four other colleagues, reports Minonline. Others leaving are publisher/sales…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 7, 2009 7:07 PM
In a surprise move, TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE firm OpenGate Capital, has appointed former Hachette CEO and magazine industry vet Jack Kliger as the interim CEO and senior adviser to the company. This comes as the troubled mag tries to revive itself and the format. This fills…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 7, 2008 11:19 PM
TV Guide, the print magazine now under the ownership of LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital, plans to launch a new website (at TVGuidemagazine.com which it owns) to accompany the mag. The only problem is that TVGuide.com exists, and was not sold by Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) as part of the…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 15, 2008 4:03 PM
Wow, we knew Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) was desperate to get rid of the print version of TV Guide, but didn’t know the extent to which it would go to the liabilities off its books: we reported earlier this week that it was sold to PE firm OpenGate Capital..now the price…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 13, 2008 3:16 PM
Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally found a buyer for TV Guide magazine, and it not one of the usual suspects: it has divested the magazine only (NOT online) to LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is sure to come out in…
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