Boyd Ostroff
September 16th, 2006, 02:43 PM
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115836925951265204-FDLWk_5Ork8039SQMwayyi6NRNY_20070916.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
His PC Magazine became the leading consumer magazine about computers, ranked by Advertising Age as the ninth-largest magazine by revenue in the country in 1991.
In 1994, with Mr. Ziff's assent, his sons -- who owned most of the business through a trust set up by Mr. Ziff -- sold most of the company for $1.4 billion to New York-based Forstmann Little & Co. (The company, now known as Ziff Davis Media Inc., has since been resold twice
His PC Magazine became the leading consumer magazine about computers, ranked by Advertising Age as the ninth-largest magazine by revenue in the country in 1991.
In 1994, with Mr. Ziff's assent, his sons -- who owned most of the business through a trust set up by Mr. Ziff -- sold most of the company for $1.4 billion to New York-based Forstmann Little & Co. (The company, now known as Ziff Davis Media Inc., has since been resold twice