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Gannett Buys Sports Websites

Wall Street Journal | by TVNewsCheck

Gannett Co. acquired Fantasy Sports Ventures, a network of independent sports websites led by TheBigLead.com, underscoring big media companies’ focus on online sports news. The deal, terms of which weren’t disclosed, could make Gannett’s USA Today Sports Media Group one of the five biggest properties online in a category dominated by Yahoo Sports and ESPN.com.