{"id":53890,"date":"2019-04-18T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53890"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:00:32","slug":"surfer-magazine-parent-sells-national-enquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53890","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Magazine Parent Sells National Enquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"American Media LLC<\/strong>, the company that purchased a gutted Adventure Sports Network<\/strong> in January 2019 has apparently sold the National Enquirer<\/strong><\/em> (and a couple other tabloids) to Hudson Media<\/strong>. for $100 million, according to a story on WWD<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

James Cohen<\/strong>, part of the family that founded Hudson News Distributors<\/strong>, is buying the U.S. and U.K versions of the gossip magazine from David Pecker\u2019s<\/strong> American Media LLC (recently renamed from American Media Inc.), which acquired the title 20 years ago. The $100 million deal also includes two other tabloids, Globe and National Examiner. . . Pecker \u2014 whose friendship with President Donald Trump<\/a> and the use of the Enquirer\u2019s coverage to aid Trump\u2019s candidacy and perhaps even his personal vendettas<\/a> has come under intense scrutiny<\/a>over the last year \u2014 wrote in a statement that the group of magazines actually pull in $30 million in profit annually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not sure what this really means other than Snowboarder, <\/em><\/strong>Skateboarding,<\/i><\/b> and Surfer Magazine<\/strong><\/em> are no longer siblings of the politically embroiled gossip rags and AMI is a little less in debt — only $355 million now. Ouch.<\/p>\n

[Link: WWD<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Media LLC, the company that purchased a gutted Adventure Sports Network in January 2019 has apparently sold the National Enquirer (and a couple other tabloids) to Hudson Media. for $100 million, according to a story on WWD. James Cohen, part of the family that founded Hudson News Distributors, is buying the U.S. and U.K versions of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53893,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890\/revisions\/53893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}