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		<title>Cecil Whig, Shore Newspapers Sold; Mystery Surrounds Eclectic Family with Camping, Wine Interests&#8211; to Dabble in News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil Whig is being sold by a Texas-based media company, which was owned primarily by foreign banks and investors, to a multi-state US family-led operation with no news background but a financially profitable string of businesses tied to recreational vehicles and a multi-millionaire with eclectic interests in French vineyards and music education. The announcement of the sale came in a conference call to local employees of the Whig and other area newspapers (including the Newark, DE Post, the Easton Star-Democrat and the Kent County News in Maryland) Thursday afternoon, sources said, with David Fike, president and publisher of the Chesapeake Publishing Group division of American Consolidated Media of Austin, TX. (Cecil Times has called Fike for comment on the sale and will update this report upon his response.) The ACM operation acquired Chesapeake Publishing Corp., longtime owners of the Whig and other Eastern Shore newspapers, in 2007 in a highly-leveraged buyout deal by an Australian-based media company through a US subsidiary. But the deal went sour before too long and a cadre of banks, lenders and moneymen called in the debts and took over. Required statements of ownership published in the Whig have listed General Electric Capital Corp., followed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Report: Cecil County Newspaper Ad Wars, Taxpayer $ at Stake</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report When is a newspaper not a newspaper? That’s what the Cecil County Commissioners have been trying to decide for over a year, and at stake is $152,000 a year in county funds that have been given exclusively to the Cecil Whig for legal advertising. A Circuit Court judge, the county attorney and an independent legal consultant have all agreed that the upstart Cecil Guardian meets legal standards to carry Cecil County government legal advertising, and thus could challenge the monopoly that the Whig has held for decades by offering cheaper ad rates for the county and its taxpayers. But, at the insistence of Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4), the county commissioners had another lengthy worksession discussion of the issue, punctuated by verbal fireworks, interruptions and some raised voices Tuesday. Yet even after all that, the issue was still not resolved, with postal official’s documentation of qualification for second-class mail privileges still to be submitted for yet another review. Broomell said she doesn’t want the county to support what she called the “propaganda” of the Guardian, or face possible lawsuits over potentially legally defective ads. “They could just basically spread their propaganda,” she said of the Guardian&#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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