Phoenix Media/Communications Group
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Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a Boston, Massachusetts corporation with several publishing and broadcasting interests. In addition to the Boston Phoenix, the Providence Phoenix and the Portland Phoenix, the company publishes a biweekly publication about Boston nightlife called Stuff@night and operates an alternative music radio station WFNX which went on the air in 1983.
The Boston Phoenix has its origins in an alternative newsweekly started in 1966. In 1972, its absorbed Cambridge Phoenix, a rival publication, and the company has used the "Phoenix" name since. In 1998, the company acquiring the NewPaper in Rhode Island and re-christened that publication Providence Phoenix in 1993. In September of 1999, the paper extended its reach into Maine and southern New Hampshire with the publication of the Portland Phoenix. Today, total Phoenix circulation is 253,000. The Phoenix Web site features 90% of the paper's content and is archived and searchable.[1]
The sports and magazine division publishes the official yearbooks for the Boston Celtics, the Boston Bruins, and the Boston Marathon, in addition to program guides for the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, and the Bank of America Pavilion summer music series.[2]
Through its Tele-publishing, Inc., subsidiary, Phoenix Media owns People2People.com, the world's largest provider of voice personals to the publishing industry and claims it is the web's most advanced online personals site.[3]
Phoenix Media owns MassWeb Printing, a state-of-the art offset printing facility which prints many of its own product plus many other regional newspapers.[4]
