Headquarters: Chicago
Founded: 1847
Business: local mass media
Employees: about 20,000
Operating revenues (2006): $5.5 billion
Fortune 500: No. 388

Revenue Mix

• Publishing/Interactive 74%
• Broadcasting/Entertainment 26%

Publishing Operating Revenues

• Advertising 80%
• Circulation 14%
• Other 6%

Broadcasting Operating Revenues

• Television 83%
• Radio/Entertainment 17%

Tribune Publishing:

• 9 metro 7-day newspapers, including papers in the nation’s Top 3 markets
• Total readership approximately 8 million daily, 11 million Sunday
• Targeted free-distribution newspapers include RedEye, amNewYork and Hoy
• 101 Pulitzer Prizes
• Over 50 websites serving 15.5 million unique visitors per month

Tribune Broadcasting:

• 23 stations – 14 CW affiliates; 6 Fox; 2 MyNetwork; 1 ABC
• Stations in each of Top 3 markets and seven of the Top 10
• Superstation WGN reaches 70 million U.S. households
• Stations air 278 hours of local news per week
• 39 local Emmy Awards for news in 2006
  

In the Community

• Making a positive difference for the people in our local markets through fundraising, volunteering and targeted donations

• In 2006:
  • $11 million in cash contributions to United Way and other nonprofit organizations
  • $33 million in donated ad space, air time and other "in-kind" giving
  • 33 Tribune business units partnered with the McCormick Tribune Foundation in fundraising activities, enabling the Foundation to award $29 million in Communities Program grants.