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The Herald, The Enterprise Newspapers, the Snohomish County Business Journal, La Raza and Seattle’s Child together
employ approximately 85 editors, reporters and photographers.
Greater Washington Publishing
The Company’s Greater Washington Publishing, Inc. subsidiary publishes several free-circulation advertising peri-
odicals that have little or no editorial content and are distributed in the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
using sidewalk distribution boxes. Greater Washington Publishing’s periodicals of that kind are The Washington Post
Apartment Showcase, which is published monthly and has an average circulation of about 52,000 copies; New
Homes Guide, which is published six times a year and has an average circulation of about 84,000 copies; and Guide
to Retirement Living Sourcebook, which is published nine times a year and has an average circulation of about
55,000 copies. Greater Washington Publishing also produces Washington Spaces, a luxury home and design
magazine featuring photographic layouts of visually appealing homes in the greater Washington, D.C., area,
resource information and editorial content. Washington Spaces, which is distributed by mail (principally on a
controlled-circulation basis) and through newsstand sales, is published six times a year and has an average circulation
of approximately 75,000 copies.
El Tiempo Latino
El Tiempo Latino LLC, another subsidiary of the Company, publishes El Tiempo Latino, a weekly Spanish-language
newspaper that is distributed free of charge in northern Virginia, suburban Maryland and Washington, D.C., using
sidewalk news boxes and retail locations that provide space for distribution. El Tiempo Latino provides a mix of local,
national and international news together with sports and community-events coverage and has a current circulation of
approximately 55,000 copies. Employees of the newspaper handle advertising sales as well as pre-press production,
and content is provided by a combination of wire service copy, contributions from freelance writers and photographers
and stories produced by the newspaper’s own editorial staff.
Television Broadcasting
Through subsidiaries, the Company owns six VHF television stations located in Houston, TX; Detroit, MI; Miami, FL;
Orlando, FL; San Antonio, TX; and Jacksonville, FL; which are, respectively, the 10th, 11th, 16th, 19th, 37th and
49th largest broadcasting markets in the United States.
Five of the Company’s television stations are affiliated with one or another of the major national networks. The
Company’s Jacksonville station, WJXT, has operated as an independent station since 2002.
The Company’s 2007 net operating revenues from national and local television advertising and network compen-
sation were as follows:
National ................. $102,574,000
Local.................... 210,410,000
Network ................. 13,026,000
Total .................. $326,010,000
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