Properties
Landmark is controlled by the billionaire Batten family, which founded the Weather Channel and Weather.com. Landmark owns Dominion Enterprises that runs approximately 100 internet-related companies spanning a variety of subjects, including real estate, employment, vehicles, parenting, travel, businesses for sale and apartments.
Landmark owns four major daily newspapers:
- The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia
- The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia
- News & Record, Greensboro, North Carolina
- The Annapolis Capital, Annapolis, Maryland
Through its Landmark Community Newspapers subsidiary, it owns five community daily newspapers:
- The Carroll County Times, Westminster, Maryland
- Citrus County Chronicle, Crystal River, Florida
- The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Los Alamos Monitor, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Las Vegas Optic, Las Vegas, New Mexico
It also owns over 120 community and special-interest newspapers in sixteen states. This includes seven publications that cover college sports at Florida State University, University of Florida, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska, University of Kentucky, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Landmark owns two broadcast outlets, both CBS affiliates:
- KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, Nevada
- WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tennessee (sale to Journal Communications pending)
Until 2008, Landmark was part-owner (with Pelmorex) of Canadian weather channels The Weather Network and MétéoMédia. A second cable outlet, The Travel Channel was owned by the company from 1992 to 1996, when it was sold to Paxson Communications, who subsequently sold it to Discovery Communications, who subsequently sold it to Cox Communications.
Landmark also owns Continental Broadband, one of the leading providers of data center (colocation) and managed data network services in the United States. Its three business units include DataPoint, Expedient and nFrame.
In 2005, Landmark acquired Franchiseopportunities.com, and in 2006, BusinessBroker.net and FranchiseAdvantage.com.
It owns four career training schools that focus on health-related career education:
- Glendale Career College
- Certified Careers Institute
- Nevada Career Institute
- Virginia Career Institute
Both Glendale Career College and Nevada Career Institute have been sold off to a career training school based in southern California.
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