List of Advance subsidiaries
Companies owned by Advanced Publications, Inc
This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications Inc.
01Local media groups
The following subsidiaries are owned through Advance Local:
Advance Media New York
- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
- Syracuse.com
- NYup.com
- New York Cannabis Insider
- Central New York Magazine
Advance Ohio
- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) / Cleveland.com
Alabama Media Group
- AL.com and The Lede
- Alabama Education Lab
- Red Clay Media
- It's a Southern Thing
- This is Alabama
- People of Alabama
MassLive Media
- The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts) / MassLive.com
MLive Media Group
- MLive.com
- The Ann Arbor News (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
- Bay City Times (Bay City, Michigan)
- The Flint Journal (Flint, Michigan)
- Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
- Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson, Michigan)
- Muskegon Chronicle (Muskegon, Michigan)
- Saginaw News (Saginaw, Michigan)
NJ Advance Media
- NJ.com
- The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
- The Times (Trenton, New Jersey)
- The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey)
- South Jersey Times (South Jersey)
- Hunterdon County Democrat (Hunterdon County, New Jersey)
- Hunterdon Observer
- Warren Reporter (Warren County, New Jersey)
- Ledger Somerset Observer (Somerset County, New Jersey)
- Star-Gazette
- Ledger Local
- Suburban News
- Jersey's Best
- The Express-Times (Easton, Pennsylvania) / LehighValleyLive.com
Oregonian Media Group
- The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) / OregonLive.com
- Here is Oregon
PA Media Group
- The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) / PennLive.com
- Penn Studios
Staten Island Media Group
- Staten Island Advance (Staten Island, New York) / SILive.com

02Leaders Group
Advance Publications purchased Street & Smith Publications, Inc. in August 1959. 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
- The Esports Observer
- SportTechie
- Newzoo
03Condé Nast
05Former and defunct divisions
- RCA purchased Random House in 1965 and later sold it to Advance Publications in 1980. Advance sold Random House to German media conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1998.
- 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 2008 financial crisis; based in Washington, D.C., its staff served as a national news bureau to all publications in the Advance portfolio
- Religion News Service (sold 2011 to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association)
- 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)
06Former television stations
- Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
- Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by Advance or Newhouse.
| Media market | State | Station | Purchased | Sold | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | Alabama | WAPI-TV | 1956 | 1980 | |
| St. Louis | Missouri | KTVI | 1955 | 1980 | |
| Elmira | New York | WSYE-TV ** | 1956 | 1980 | |
| Syracuse | WSYR-TV ** | 1950 | 1980 | ||
| Portland | Oregon | KOIN | 1953 | 1977 | |
| Harrisburg | Pennsylvania | WTPA ** | 1953 | 1980 |
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