Posted on 02/17/2010 10:59:55 AM PST by Justaham
Salem Communications bought Michelle Malkin’s HotAir blog it was announced today.
Mediaite reported:
CPAC hasn’t even officially started and already its making news. Mediaite has learned that leading center-right web site Hot Air has been acquired by Salem Communications for an undisclosed sum. Sources close to the deal claim that Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit and sole owner of Hot Air, has been in talks with Salem for some time, but the announcement was timed to coincide with the Conservative Political Action Conference, which opens tomorrow in Washington D.C.
Hot Air is one of the biggest, most influential conservative sites on the Web and was launched on April 24, 2006, with Michelle Malkin as founder/CEO (though she remains editorially focused on her own blog MichelleMalkin.com and her own writing and television appearances.) Hot Air is managed on a day-to-day basis by editors Ed Morrissey and the mysterious AllahPundit, who are reported to be part of the deal in the sale of to Salem, and absolutely essential to the core value of Hot Air. We are told that, from a user’s perspective, Hot Air will remain the same despite the change in ownership.
Ed wrote that they will be discussing this news more tomorrow.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com ...
I hope she made out like a bandit.
That’s what I was about to say.
MM center-right?
center-right?
I’d consider Michelle firmly right - right where I am.
Totally agree. MM is very firmly right.
Hey, what’s the deal here? Where are the obligatory MM pictures!?!?!?!? Come on guys, don’t disappoint me, I need my fix!
~~PING!
Good for Michelle!
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Hot Air was purchased from conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who launched the site in 2006. Bloggers Ed Morrissey and Allahpundit have been the site’s mainstays and have built a wide audience within the conservative blogosphere.
“I have always respected Michelle Malkin and the insights and opinions presented by Hot Air,” said Garthwaite, who will serve as general manager of Townhall/Hot Air. “I look forward to working with Ed Morrissey and Allahpundit during a critical period in determining our country’s future.”
While the two sites will be operated under the same umbrella, they will remain separate entities, and both Morrissey and Allahpundit will stay on as the site’s bloggers, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
Salem already has a significant presence in the conservative and Christian talk radio markets, broadcasting and syndicating the shows of Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt and others.
The company owns 94 radio stations as well as a magazine and book publisher in the conservative and Christian markets.
Tom Perrault, senior vice president of Salem’s Web radio division, said, “The addition of Hot Air doubles the size of Salem’s expanding footprint in online conservative commentary.”
“Hot Air has experienced phenomenal growth — beyond our wildest expectations,” said Malkin in the statement. “With its established radio platform and fast-growing Internet brands, Salem is perfectly positioned to take Hot Air to the next level as a conservative multimedia powerhouse.”
Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33090.html#ixzz0fwaUPBX4
Damn good for Michelle....
The new Media takes form...
Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit and sole owner of Hot Air, has been in talks with Salem for some timeThanks Ernest, interesting move.
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