UCG partners are having too much fun.Remember Bruce Levinson, Ed Peskowitz and Todd Foreman, the UCG UCG United Church of God UCG Underground Coal Gasification UCG University College Galway UCG Unified Communications Group (Microsoft) UCG Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems (Guy Lotgering book) partners who are part of a team that, last fall, purchased the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks and the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers The Atlanta Thrashers are a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Their home arena is Philips Arena. ? They're in the news again thanks to a lengthy article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution written by Tim Tucker and published April 5, 2004. Get a load of this lead: "The former owner of the Hawks and Thrashers is the world's largest media company, the company of Time magazine and Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. , CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. and Warner Brothers Warner Brothers (b. Eichelbaums) movie executives; Harry (Morris) (1881–1958), born in Krasnashiltz, Poland; Albert (1884–1967), born in Baltimore, Md.; Samuel (1887–1927), born in Baltimore, Md. studio. "Among the new owners of the Hawks and the Thrashers are three partners of a lower-profile media company, the company of Funeral Service Insider, Oil Express, Insurance Compliance Week, Car Dealer Insider and many other narrowly focused business newsletters. "While AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner was loudly losing $100 billion in 2002, United Communications Group was quietly doing what it does every year: making money. As the former owner of the Hawks and Thrashers moves its corporate headquarters into twin 80-story skyscrapers in Manhattan, three of the new owners can be found in a simple suburban office building four miles outside the Washington beltway." It's a good read about the rare interaction of newsletter publishers and professional sports, accessible at ajc.com > Sports > Hawks. UCG, 11300 Rockville Pike, #1100, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-287-2700, fax 301-816-8945. |
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