Assembled Extra: News Site ComicsAlliance Back Up

Here. Humorous explanation here. Congratulations to Joseph Hughes and his crew; I would have lost money had some bookie been taking bets on that site's return and I were in a mood to make bets. Also this makes me slightly frightened of Hughes.

Here's the text of the PR, which basically says very little but does include proper nouns.

Townsquare Media Group announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire AOL Music assets The Boot (www.theboot.com), The BoomBox (www.theboombox.com) and NoiseCreep (www.noisecreep.com) as well as ComicsAlliance (www.comicsalliance.com) from AOL Inc. The new digital properties will join Townsquare Media Group's national digital business, a portfolio of premium music and entertainment websites which reach over 52 million US monthly unique visitors and include Taste of Country (tasteofcountry.com), PopCrush (popcrush.com), ScreenCrush (screencrush.com/) and Okayplayer (www.okayplayer.com). No purchase price was announced.

Townsquare Media Group Chairman and CEO, Steven Price said, "The acquisition of these assets from AOL represents the continued rapid growth of Townsquare Media's portfolio of owned and operated music and entertainment websites. Adding these premium brands to Townsquare Media's comprehensive offering propels our scale beyond today's 52 million US monthly unique visitors, allowing advertisers and agencies even greater access to this highly engaged and demographically desirable audience."

As part of the transaction, members of the AOL Music and ComicsAlliance teams will be working with Townsquare Media's team going forward. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

I like a lot of the CA writers, and I'm glad to see this place for them to write return, as it seems to be something of which they're in full support. The site had been shut down by AOL for some sort of vague branding/resource-emphasis reasons, as far as I could tell, and had recently been hinting at a return via a roll-out of rebirth-theme Batman panels.
 
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