Commercial Online Service affiliations

[Internet94]

To set the record straight:

Compuserve=H&R Block
Prodigy=IBM & Sears
GEnie=General Electric
Delphi=Indepedent(?)
America Online=Independent

[Andrew Kantor]

Internet94, aka inter...@aol.com, had this to say:

Delphi is owned by Rupert Murdoch's company; the name escapes me.

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[Gary Barkov]

In article <2kjllt$i...@rmg01.prod.aol.net>,
Internet94 <inter...@aol.com> wrote:

>To set the record straight:
>

>America Online=Independent
>

To really set the record straight:

AOL is actually owned by the Tribune Co, a large Chicago-based organization
that owns the Chicago Cubs, WGN-TV, Chicago Tribune, and various other
Newspapers and syndicated TV shows (Geraldo).

[David]

gaba...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Gary Barkov) writes:

>>AOL is actually owned by the Tribune Co, a large Chicago-based organization
that owns the Chicago Cubs, WGN-TV, Chicago Tribune, and various other
Newspapers and syndicated TV shows (Geraldo).
<<

AOL is a publicly owned company, traded on NASDAQ (AMER). The Tribune is just
a stockholder, just one of the public owners (like me <g>).

David Liberman
America Online, Inc.

[Internet94]

Gary said:

AOL is actually owned by the Tribune Co, a large Chicago-based organization
that owns the Chicago Cubs, WGN-TV, Chicago Tribune, and various other
Newspapers and syndicated TV shows (Geraldo).

This is absolutely FALSE. America Online has forged a partnership with the
Tribune company and have provided them an area online called 'Chicago Online'.
If The Tribune Company owned AOL, why on earth would they permit competing
newspapers space on AOL/ (san Jose Mercury News, NY Times (soon), USA Today).
This is the ONLY relationship AOL has with The Tribune Company.

The record is now COMPLETELY straight!

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[NoSlfCntrl]

gaba...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Gary Barkov) writes:

>To really set the record straight:

>AOL is actually owned by the Tribune Co, a large Chicago-based organization
>that owns the Chicago Cubs, WGN-TV, Chicago Tribune, and various other
>Newspapers and syndicated TV shows (Geraldo).

To ACtaully really set the record straight:

To REALLY set the record straight:
AOL is a publicly traded company. Paul Allen, Microsoft's
cofounder, owns about 25% and has announced his interest in
acquiring the entire company.
Apple has rights to 500,000 America Online shares once the enhancement is
launched (planned for 1994). The Tribune Co. owns 11% of the company.
This info comes from Hoover's Handbook, which is available online at AOL.
the rest of the company, I assume, is owned by various stockholders,
none of whom have a big enough stake to warrant mention in Hoover's.

AOL is traded on NASDAQ (symbol: AMER)

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smi...@panix.com NoSlf...@aol.com Steve Miklos @ home

[Tim]

AOL is a publicly-traded company.

Symbol is AMER, check out the NASDAQ market in your newspaper.

[Chee_Woo_Leong]

Huh? America Online is a publicly held company and is listed on NASDAQ - in fact the stock was a superb performer last week, gaining over $24 a share. Unless I'm wrong here... can you provide documentation to support your claim Gary? I've been under the impression that AOL is AOL and not part of someone else. It used to be a private company call Quantum Computer Services and was renamed America Online shortly after the rollout of the AOL service back in 1987(?).
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