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The Herald, The Enterprise Newspapers, the Snohomish County Business Journal, La Raza and Seattle’s Child together
employ approximately 84 editors, reporters and photographers.
Greater Washington Publishing
The Company’s Greater Washington Publishing, Inc. subsidiary publishes several free-circulation advertising periodicals
that have little or no editorial content and are distributed in the greater Washington, DC, metropolitan area using
sidewalk distribution boxes. Greater Washington Publishing’s periodicals of that kind are 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, DC, 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, publishes El Tiempo Latino, a weekly Spanish-language newspaper that is distributed free of charge in
northern Virginia, suburban Maryland and Washington, DC, 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 50,000 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
47th 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 2008 net operating revenues from national and local television advertising and network compensation
were as follows:
National .......................... $110,053,000
Local ............................. 185,304,000
Network .......................... 9,442,000
Total ......................... $304,799,000
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