14 Facts About Landmark Communications

Landmark Communications owns Dominion Enterprises, which runs classified advertising websites for real estate, vehicles, travel, franchises and businesses for sale.

One of Landmark Communications's holdings was TeleCable Corporation, a cable television service that began in a small Virginia town in the late 1950s.

Landmark Communications was an owner of KNTV in San Jose, California from 1978 to 1990.

Landmark Communications briefly owned WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, but was forced to sell it immediately due to FCC restrictions.

At one time, Landmark Communications owned a minority share of the Washingtonian magazine, until its rights were traded to Eleanor Merrill, widow of its publisher Philip Merrill, in exchange for full ownership of the Annapolis Capital and five other Maryland newspapers.

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Landmark Communications owned the hobby publisher Antique Trader Publications until its sale to Krause Publications in 1999.

In December 2001, Landmark Communications announced it would close its subsidiary Church Impressions, based in Greenville, North Carolina, which published church directories, portraits, and other print and web media products.

Landmark Communications once owned four career training schools that focus on health-related career education: Glendale Career College, Certified Careers Institute, Nevada Career Institute and Virginia Career Institute.

On September 19,2007, it was announced that Continental Broadband, a Landmark Communications company, sold its South Florida business unit, WebUnited, to Host.

In early 2008, the Landmark Communications confirmed that it was exploring the sale of the entire company.

In May 2013, Landmark Communications sold the Roanoke Times, the metropolitan newspaper serving Roanoke, Virginia, to Berkshire Hathaway.

Landmark Communications sold its Maryland newspapers to The Baltimore Sun Media Group on May 1,2014.

In May 2018, Landmark Communications sold The Virginian-Pilot and its associated publications and websites to Tribune Publishing.

In 2008, Landmark Communications announced that it would terminate its pension fund, which covered some of its retirees and current employees.