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Freedom Communications, Inc.



Scott N. Flanders is the CEO of Freedom Communications, Inc..

Headquartered in Irvine California, Freedom Communications is a privately owned company which operates 28 daily and 37 weekly newspapers in the United States, with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.2 million. Their flaship newspaper is the Orange County Register based in Santa Ana, California, with a circulation of 360,000.

The broadcast division includes eight television stations -- five CBS affiliates and three ABC affiliates.

Freedom Communications generated $1 billion in sales in 2005.

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Web Site:www.freedom.com
Email:info@freedom.com
Telephone:949.253.2300
Fax:949.474.7675
Address:17666 Fitch
Irvine CA 92614
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Comments about Freedom Communications, Inc.

Comments to date: 4. The most recent comments are below.

Media Owners editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:36pm on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Freedom Communications has named independent director and media veteran Burl Osborne as Interim CEO.

IRVINE, CA - June 16, 2009 - Freedom Communications, Inc. today named independent director and media veteran Burl Osborne as its Interim CEO, replacing Scott Flanders who resigned to take the CEO post at Playboy Enterprises, Inc.

Mr. Osborne has served on Freedom's Board of Directors since May 2004.

He was executive editor and then publisher of the Dallas Morning News from 1980 to 2001 and has been credited with building it into one of the top papers in the country. He also held a number of positions, including president of the publishing division, with the Belo Corporation, which is the parent company of the Morning News.

Mr. Osborne was chairman of the board of the Associated Press from 2002 to 2007. He also has served as chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and as a director of the Newspaper Association of America.


Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:02pm on Friday, June 12th, 2009

Scott Flanders, currently the president and CEO of Freedom Communications, is leaving the company to become CEO of Playboy Enterprises. He will start his new job at Playboy on July 1, 2009.

Christie Hefner, daughter of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, stepped down as CEO of Playboy Enterprises at the end of 2008, after 20 years with the company.


Maria Kenez    Mesa AZ

Posted at 5:47pm on Friday, February 13th, 2009

please do not deliver your free paper to me. I did not ask for it and I do not want it. (Not saying it is bad or good, just unnecessary.)

Thanks


Liz Doty    Harlingen texas

Posted at 3:50pm on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

I would like to have information run in the community section/calendar/events etc...about an upcoming pageant to be heldat the marine Military Academy. How can I get the information to the Brownsville, McAllen, Harlingen papers??? and how often can it run?? thank you



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