Highlights
Channel One reaches 8 million teens daily in over 350,000 classrooms.
Magazines include Bike, Skateboarder, McCall’s Quilting, Arabian Horse World, Hot Rod, Guns & Ammo, and Lowrider.
What do Surfer, Motor Trend, and Soap Opera Digest magazines have in common? All are owned by media giant Primedia. The company operates a variety of businesses: Enthusiast Media, which offers some 90 publications, 100 leading Web sites, 90 events, 11 TV programs, and 600 branded products to fans of a range of stripes; Consumer Guides, which publishes auto, home, and apartment guides and distributes them in 50,000 locations, as well as running related websites; and Education (which produces and distributes Channel One, a TV network aired in secondary schools; Films Media Group, which produces educational video; and Primedia Healthcare, a continuing medical education business).