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Ziff Davis Media
Type Privately Held, formerly public company.
Founded 1927
Headquarters New York City, Woburn, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California
Key people Lance Ulanoff
Industry Magazine Publishing/Internet Information Provider
Products Magazines, Websites, Podcasts, Video Podcasts
Revenue ▼$187. The City of New York The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Lance Ulanoff is Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine and VP for PCMag Network For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 6 million (2005)
Employees ~500
Parent Ziff Davis Holdings Inc. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A holding company is a company that owns part all or a majority of other companies' outstanding Stock.
Website www.ziffdavis.com

Ziff Davis Inc. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages (ZD) is an American magazine publisher and Internet Information company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. William Bernard Ziff Sr ( August 1, 1898 &ndash December 20, 1953) was an American publishing executive Bernard George Davis ( December 11, 1906 &ndash August 28, 1972) was an American publishing executive Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars, photography, and electronics. However, since 1980, Ziff Davis has primarily published computer and technology related magazines, and its growing number of websites, spun off from its magazines, have established Ziff Davis as an Internet Information company.

Ziff Davis had several broadcasting properties, first in the mid-1970s, and later with its own technology network ZDTV, later renamed to TechTV, that was sold to Vulcan Ventures in 2001. TechTV ( May 11, 1998 &ndash May 28, 2004) was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Vulcan Inc was founded in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to manage his investments Ziff Davis' magazine publishing and Internet operations offices are based in New York City, San Francisco and Woburn.

The company (Ziff Davis Media) announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 5, 2008. [1]


Contents

History

Popular Aviation

An early issue of Popular Aviation; the first magazine published by Ziff Davis. The covers were paintings for the first decade.
An early issue of Popular Aviation; the first magazine published by Ziff Davis. The covers were paintings for the first decade.

The William B. Ziff Company, founded 1920, was a successful Chicago advertising agency that secured advertising from national firms such as Proctor and Gamble for virtually all African American weekly newspapers. In 1923, Ziff acquired E. C. Auld Company, a Chicago publishing house. He had previously worked as a cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News so he created a humor periodical, Ziff's Magazine, which was later changed to America's Humor. The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily Newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago Illinois. [2][3]

Bernard George Davis was the student editor of the University of Pittsburgh's humor magazine, the Pitt Panther, and was active in the Association of College Comics of the East. In his senior year he attended the association's convention and met William B. Ziff. When Davis graduated in 1927 he joined the William B. Ziff Company as the editor of America's Humor. [4] [5]

Ziff, who had been an aviator in World War I, created a new magazine, Popular Aviation, in August 1927 that was published by Popular Aviation Publishing Company of Chicago, Illinois. Under Editor Harley W. Mitchell it became the largest aviation magazine with a circulation of 100,000 in 1929. [6] The magazine's title became Aeronautics in June 1929 and the publishing company's name became Aeronautical Publications, Inc. The title was changed back to Popular Aviation in July 1930. The magazine became Flying in 1942 and is still published today by Hachette Filipacchi Media. FLYING is an aviation magazine published since 1927 (original name ''Popular Aviation'') Hachette Filipacchi Media US Inc (HFM US is a subsidiary of Hachette Filipacchi Médias (the world's largest Magazine Publisher) and is based in The magazine celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2007.

The company histories normally give the founding date as 1927. This is when B. G. Davis joined and Popular Aviation magazine started. It was not until 1936 that the company became the "Ziff-Davis Publishing Company". (Popular Aviation, April 1936, was the first issue by Ziff-Davis Publishing. ) Davis was given a substantial minority equity position in the company and was appointed a vice-president and director. He was later named president in 1946. Davis was a photography enthusiast and the editor of the Popular Photography magazine started in May 1937. Popular Photography & Imaging, also called Popular Photography or Pop Photo, is a monthly American consumer magazine founded in 1937 [5]

Fiction and hobbyist magazines

In early 1938, Ziff-Davis acquired Radio News and Amazing Stories magazines. Radio News was an American monthly technology magazine published from 1919 to 1971 Amazing Stories was an American Science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback 's Experimenter Publishing. [7] These were founded by Hugo Gernsback but sold in the Experimenter Publishing bankruptcy in 1929. Hugo Gernsback ( August 16 1884 – August 19 1967) born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American Inventor Both magazines had declined since the bankruptcy but the resources of Ziff-Davis rejuvenated them starting with the April 1938 issues. Radio News was published until 1972 and in 1955 spun off Popular Electronics which was published until 1985. Popular Electronics was a magazine started by Ziff-Davis Publishing in October 1954 for hobbyist and experimenters in electronics Amazing Stories was a leading science fiction magazine and Ziff Davis soon added a new companion, Fantastic Adventures (FA). In 1954 FA was folded by merger into the newer Fantastic, founded in 1952 to great initial success. Fantastic was a fantasy and Science fiction magazine published in the United States from 1952 to 1980 ZD published a number of other pulp magazines and, later, digest-sized fiction magazines in the 1940s and 1950s, and continued to publish Amazing and Fantastic till 1965. Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar.

William B. Ziff, Sr. , died in 1953 and son William B. Ziff, Jr. returned from Germany to assume his role in the company. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Bernard Ziff Jr ( June 24, 1930 – September 9, 2006) was an American publishing executive Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. In 1958 Bernard G. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Davis sold his share of Ziff Davis to found Davis Publications. Under the younger Ziff's direction, the company soon became a successful publisher of enthusiast magazines. Ziff Davis purchased titles like Car and Driver and by gearing content towards enthusiasts and readers who made purchasing decisions for their companies ("brand specifiers"), the company was able to attract advertising money that other, general-interest publications were losing. Car and Driver is an American automotive enthusiast Magazine.

In the 1970s and 1980s the company's success grew with this approach and a rapidly expanding interest in electronics and computing. With titles such as PC Magazine, Popular Electronics, and Computer Shopper, Ziff Davis rose to the top of the technology magazine business. PC Magazine (sometimes referred to as PC Mag) is a Computer magazine that is published monthly in the United States (until 2008 it was published Popular Electronics was a magazine started by Ziff-Davis Publishing in October 1954 for hobbyist and experimenters in electronics

Television stations

In 1979, Ziff Davis expanded into broadcasting, following an acquisition of television stations originally owned by greeting card company Rust Craft. Ziff Davis's stations included NBC affiliates WROC-TV in Rochester, New York and WRCB-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, CBS affiliates WEYI-TV in Saginaw, Michigan, WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia and WSTV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio (which changed its calls to WTOV-TV and its network affiliation to NBC after Ziff Davis assumed control of the station), and ABC affiliate WJKS-TV in Jacksonville, Florida (which would also switch to NBC shortly after its acquisition was finalized). The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's WROC-TV is the CBS affiliate in Rochester New York. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 8 and its digital signal on UHF channel 45 Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. WRCB-TV Channel 3 is an NBC affiliate based in Chattanooga, serving southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, northeastern Alabama CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. WEYI, (known on the air as NBC 25 is the NBC affiliate for the Flint - Saginaw - Bay City television market WRDW-TV is the CBS television affiliate for the Augusta Georgia television market Augusta Georgia is a city in Richmond County, Georgia, United States. WTOV-TV, channel 9 is the NBC affiliate for the Wheeling West Virginia / Steubenville Ohio television market Steubenville is a city located along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio, in the United States. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. WCWJ (CW 17 cable 9 is the CW affiliate in Jacksonville Florida. These stations would be sold off to other owners (mainly "Television Station Partners") by the mid-1980s.

Current DMA# Market Station Years Owned Current Affiliation/Owner
49. A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area, DMA or simply market is a region where the Population Jacksonville, Florida WJKS-TV 17
(now WCWJ)		 1979-82 CW affiliate owned by Media General
66. WCWJ (CW 17 cable 9 is the CW affiliate in Jacksonville Florida. The CW Television Network ( The CW) is a Television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-2007 television season. Media General Inc. is a Media company based in the Southeastern United States. Saginaw - Flint, Michigan WEYI-TV 25 1979-83 NBC affiliate owned by Barrington Broadcasting
78. Flint is a city in the US state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km northwest of Detroit. WEYI, (known on the air as NBC 25 is the NBC affiliate for the Flint - Saginaw - Bay City television market The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Barrington Broadcasting Company LLC (best known as Barrington Broadcasting headquartered in Hoffman Estates Illinois is an entity wholly focused on Broadcast television Rochester, New York WROC-TV 8 1979-83 CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group
86. Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. WROC-TV is the CBS affiliate in Rochester New York. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 8 and its digital signal on UHF channel 45 CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc, is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving Texas. Chattanooga, Tennessee WRCB-TV 3 1979-82 NBC affiliate owned by Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
115. WRCB-TV Channel 3 is an NBC affiliate based in Chattanooga, serving southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, northeastern Alabama Sarkes Tarzian (1900-October 1987 was an Armenian born US engineer inventor and broadcaster Augusta, Georgia WRDW-TV 12 1979-83 (?) CBS affiliate owned by Gray Television
159. Augusta Georgia is a city in Richmond County, Georgia, United States. WRDW-TV is the CBS television affiliate for the Augusta Georgia television market CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Gray Television Inc ( is a communications company headquartered in Atlanta Georgia, with administrative offices in Albany Georgia. Steubenville, Ohio - Wheeling, West Virginia WSTV-TV/
WTOV-TV 9		 1979-83 NBC affiliate owned by Cox Enterprises

Technology magazines and web properties

Ziff Davis first started technology-themed publications in 1954, with Popular Electronics and, more briefly, Electronics World led more or less directly to its interest in home-computer magazines. Steubenville is a city located along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio, in the United States. Wheeling is a city in West Virginia, in the United States. Most of the city is in Ohio County, with a small WTOV-TV, channel 9 is the NBC affiliate for the Wheeling West Virginia / Steubenville Ohio television market Cox Enterprises is the successor to the Publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox Popular Electronics was a magazine started by Ziff-Davis Publishing in October 1954 for hobbyist and experimenters in electronics Since then, Ziff Davis became a major player in the field of computer and internet related publishing. In 1982 it acquired PC Magazine. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) PC Magazine (sometimes referred to as PC Mag) is a Computer magazine that is published monthly in the United States (until 2008 it was published In 1988 it acquired the trade journal MacWEEK. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) A trade journal is a Periodical, Magazine or Publication printed with the intention of Target marketing to a specific Industry or type MacWEEK was a Controlled-circulation weekly Apple Macintosh Trade journal based in San Francisco. In 1989 the company launched the ZDNet site. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) In 1991 Ziff Davis Publishing Company brought together a small diverse set of online forums and information services (most notably "PC MagNet" under the name In 1991 ZDNet on CompuServe and on the fledgling internet were augmented by the purchase of Public Brand Software, the leading shareware disk provider. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. CompuServe, ( CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS) was the first major commercial Online service in the United States In 1995 it launched the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly Magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the site Yahoo!.

In 1998, Ziff Davis started ZDTV, a technology-themed television network. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) ZDTV was sold to Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. in 2000, and was renamed to TechTV. Vulcan Inc was founded in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to manage his investments TechTV ( May 11, 1998 &ndash May 28, 2004) was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San

In 2001 Ziff Davis Media Inc. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Ziff Davis Inc (ZD is an American publisher and Internet company reached an agreement with CNET Networks Inc. CNET Networks Inc is a media company based in San Francisco California, United States, and is part of CBS Interactive, owned and ZDNet to regain the URLs lost in the 2000 sale of Ziff Davis Inc, to SoftBank. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. is a Japanese telecommunications and media Corporation, with operations in Broadband, fixed-line Telecommunications, E-Commerce, Internet The Ziff Davis Media Inc. Ziff Davis Inc (ZD is an American publisher and Internet company partnership of Willis Stein & Partners and James Dunning (former Ziff Davis CEO, chairman, and president) gained the online content licensing rights to 11 publications, including PC Magazine, CIO Insight and eWEEK, home to industry insider Spencer Katt. For the Non-profit organization see EWeekorg eWEEK (tagline The Enterprise Newsweekly) is a weekly Computing

Since 2004, Ziff Davis has annually hosted a trade show in New York City known as DigitalLife. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " A trade fair (or trade show) is an exhibition organised so that companies in a specific Industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products service study DigitalLife showcases the newest technology in consumer electronics, gaming and entertainment. Unlike E3 or the Worldwide Developers Conference, DigitalLife is open to the public. The E3 Media and Business Summit, formerly known as Electronic Entertainment Expo and commonly known as E3, is an annual Trade show for the computer

In November 2006, Ziff Davis announced the cancellation of the Official Playstation Magazine. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. They cited a lack of interest in the magazine (and its demo disk) due to digital distribution. OPM had run since 1997.

In July 2007, Ziff Davis Media announced the sale of their enterprise division to Insight Venture Partners. The sale included all B2B publications which include eWeek, Baseline and CIOinsight and all related online properties. The enterprise division is now a stand alone company called "Ziff Davis Enterprise Group. "

Bankruptcy Protection

In March 2008 Ziff Davis announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to restructure its debt and operations.

According to BtoBonline, Ziff Davis Media has reached an agreement with an ad hoc group of noteholders, who will provide $24. 5 million to fund the firm’s operations and help plan the restructure. [8]

Current magazines

Current properties

Discontinued magazines and websites

References

  1. ^ "Ziff Davis Media Reaches Agreement to Restructure Senior Secured Debt", 2008-03-05. Games for Windows The Official Magazine was a monthly Computer game magazine published by Ziff Davis Media, licensing the Games for Windows Computer Gaming World ( CGW) was founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication GameNOW (occasionally abbreviated to GN) was a United States -based Video game magazine that was published GMR was a monthly magazine on Video games that was published by Ziff-Davis — the publisher of such magazines as PC Magazine, Official US PlayStation Magazine (often abbreviated to OPM) is a now-defunct international Video game magazine, originally published by Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly Magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine PC/Computing (later Ziff-Davis Smart Business) was a monthly Ziff Davis publication that for most of its run focused on publishing reviews of IBM -compatible Windows Sources was a Magazine by ZDNet. It lasted from c 1993 &ndash c 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Retrieved on 2008-03-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a  
  2. ^ "William B. Ziff, 55, Publisher, Is Dead. ", New York Times, December 21 1953, pp.  31.  
  3. ^ "William Bernard Ziff. ", Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 5: 1951-1955. American Council of Learned Societies, 1977. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale. 2007.
  4. ^ "Bernard G. Davis, Publisher, Dead. ", New York Times, August 29 1972, pp.  37.  
  5. ^ a b "Bernard George Davis. " Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 9: 1971-1975. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale. 2007.
  6. ^ "Again, Mitchell" (10 June 1929). Time Magazine. Time.   "Monthly magazine until this month called Popular Aviation and Aeronautics. With 100,000 circulation it is largest-selling of U. S. air publications. " "Editor of Aeronautics is equally airwise Harley W. Mitchell, no relative of General Mitchell. "
  7. ^ "Advertising News and Notes", New York Times, January 18 1938, pp.  28.   Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, has purchased Radio News Magazine and Amazing Stories.
  8. ^ Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy protection - MCV: 06/03/2008

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