{"id":755,"date":"2008-05-05T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2008-05-05T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:07:14","slug":"wasserman-media-buys-wetsand-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman Media Buys Wetsand Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chuck Menzel<\/strong>, the founder of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetsand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wetsand.com<\/a><\/strong> has sold the wave forecasting portion of his business to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmgllc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wasserman Media Group<\/a><\/strong> for an undisclosed sum, according to a <strong>Josh Hunter<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/2008\/05\/05\/wasserman-media-group-acquires-wetsandcom\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransworldBusiness.com<\/a><\/strong>. He has, however, retained ownership of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetsand.com\/page.asp?resourceid=10647\" target=\"_blank\">Wetsand store front<\/a><\/strong> and commerce site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the creative side of it that we really wanted to maintain, and I&#8217;m still creatively in control of the site, as far as keeping it on track with content and credibility,&#8221; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Menzel has been looking for buyers for his popular site for more than a year, and we&#8217;re guessing being a part of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportnet<\/a><\/strong> (which also includes action sports sites: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">surfspot.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motocross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">motocross.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.411vm.com\" target=\"_blank\">411vm.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschoolers.com\" target=\"_blank\">newschollers.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">skateboard.com<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sk8site.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sk8site.com<\/a><\/strong>) is going to be a great fit. Especially, as surfspot.com continues to grow its traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/2008\/05\/05\/wasserman-media-group-acquires-wetsandcom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Business<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Menzel, the founder of Wetsand.com has sold the wave forecasting portion of his business to the Wasserman Media Group for an undisclosed sum, according to a Josh Hunter story on TransworldBusiness.com. He has, however, retained ownership of the Wetsand store front and commerce site. It&#8217;s the creative side of it that we really wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}