Tribune Interactive

Tribune Media Company

The Tribune Tower in Chicago is the headquarters of Tribune Media
Formerly called	Tribune Company
Type	Publicly traded company
Traded as	: TRCO Russell 1000 Component
Industry	Conglomerate
Fate	Acquisition by Sinclair Broadcast Group pending
Founded	June 10, 1847; 170 years ago (1847-06-10) (as Chicago Daily Tribune) 1861; 156 years ago (1861) (as Tribune Company) August 4, 2014; 3 years ago (2014-08-04) (as Tribune Media Company)
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Key people	Bruce Karsh (Chairman) Peter Kern (Interim CEO)
Products	Television, radio, television production, real estate
Revenue	US$1.94 billion (2016)
Owner	Oaktree Capital Management (23%) Angelo, Gordon & Co. (9%) JPMorgan Chase (9%) (corporate employees hold the remaining 59% ownership interest) Sinclair Broadcast Group (pending)
Number of employees	8,200 (2016)
Subsidiaries	Tribune Broadcasting
Website	www.tribunemedia.com

Tribune Media, also known as Tribune Media Company and formerly known as the Tribune Company, is an American conglomerate that is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. A significant amount of the stock of publicly traded Tribune is held by three firms that were the company's senior debt holders: Oaktree Capital Management (which owns a 23% interest), Angelo, Gordon & Co. and JPMorgan Chase (which both own 9%). Tribune announced its sale to Hunt Valley, Maryland-based conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group on May 8, 2017 (the deal is expected to receive FCC approval sometime in the 4th quarter of 2017).

Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media is one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 television stations across the United States and operating three additional stations through local marketing agreements; it also owns national basic cable channel/superstation WGN America, regional cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV) and Chicago radio station WGN. Investment interests include the Food Network (which the company maintains a 31% ownership interest).

Prior to the August 2014 spin-off of the company's publishing division into Tribune Publishing (now called Tronc, Inc.), Tribune Media was the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher (behind the Gannett Company), with ten daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, Sun-Sentinel and The Baltimore Sun, and several commuter tabloids.