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Will newschoolers get shut down? New owner again

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chubbspeterson
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American Media, the parent corporation of Men’s Journal, Radar, US Weekly and more famously the National Enquirer (you know, the company run by Donald Trump’s friend David Pecker) is reportedly purchasing all the action sporting brands from TransWorld Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Snowboarder, and Surfer Magazine’s parent company The Enthusiast Network. TEN employees were apparently informed today (January 31, 2019) during an all-hands meeting at TEN’s headquarters in Carlsbad, California.

According to reports the new owners sent the staff of Transworld Snowboarding, Snowboarder, and Powder magazines home from the OR/Snow Show in Denver, Colorado as quickly as they’d arrived.

Things may not be looking all that bright for current TEN employees. As one media executive who is not involved with either company told us, “I would assume this is going to be brutal. American Media has tons of debt, so I doubt they’re going to invest in anything. They probably see synergies and cost-cutting as a quick way to shape up the bottom line.”
Feb 2 2019 11:18PM
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Youngm_IPCME
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Yum, synergy.

If it happens, then it was nice being here while I was.

I’ll also archive the stickied gear talk threads if a shutdown is announced.

**This post was edited on Feb 3rd 2019 at 12:25:13am
Feb 3 2019 12:20AM
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eheeth
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so we going r/newschoolers or tgr when this happens?

jk ns will never shut down
Feb 3 2019 3:14AM
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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Someone will make a separate NS

We good
Feb 3 2019 3:33AM
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TRVP_ANGEL
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good its finally time
Feb 3 2019 11:28AM
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seanahue.
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open ended question: what could the community do to show that we’re a viable enterprise, that is worth NOT shutting down?

i’m not very familiar w/ ns revenue streams or how it currently sustains itself, but if i had to guess, i would say if we care about keeping ns alive, a community-wide shutoff of adblockers is a good start.
Feb 3 2019 1:50PM
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AdrenalineGarage
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Apparently, the takeover was the height of shitty. From Stab Magazine:

According to sources within the Carlsbad complex, all TEN employees received an email on Tuesday calling for a mandatory meeting on Jan 31. Employees were given one of two time-slots, which were not in relation to the publication they worked for but rather whether or not they would be fired.

The email did not preemptively disclose which time slot was for the layoffs and which was for the to-be-retained employees, so rumors ran amok. Was 11:30 the good group to be in, or the bad one?

One TEN worker summed up the office atmosphere thusly:

“It was like you were either being sent to the gas chambers, or you’d get to live another day.”

All up, more than 50 percent of TEN’s staff was culled, which was reportedly part of the deal between TEN and AM. In other words, if TEN wanted to be bought by AM, they’d have to slash a significant number of employees first.


I don't know who got the axe from NS, but I doubt it was deserved. To them: Thanks for putting together a great website over the years. NS has meant a lot to me, both personally and professionally. It takes a whole team to make that possible. No doubt this site will suffer from your missing contributions. Thank you and best of luck to the NS staff who still has to make this work.

And, yes, we should all realize there is a cost to ad blockers. Content, servers and community isn't free. Putting up with some ads (or, here's a novel idea: supporting the brands that support us) is the least we can do, especially if we want a site for and by skiers. I doubt Mark Zuckerberg could give two shits about us.

**This post was edited on Feb 3rd 2019 at 2:17:41pm
Feb 3 2019 2:17PM
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Lonely
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NS gofundme? Lets keep eheath employed
Feb 3 2019 2:20PM
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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Let's be real here though the newschoolers Instagram page is probably worth far more money wise than the website itself at this point. 266k followers or so?
Feb 3 2019 2:30PM
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corona
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BigPurpleSkiSuitLet's be real here though the newschoolers Instagram page is probably worth far more money wise than the website itself at this point. 266k followers or so?


Do you get ad revenue from instagram like you do on youtube?
Feb 3 2019 2:44PM
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Willgum
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VinnieFDo you get ad revenue from instagram like you do on youtube?

If I recall correctly, you don't get money from Instagram directly like you do when you partner with youtube. I think deals happen privately, so you'll strike a deal to market a campaign for a company for $10k and everything is handled directly between parties.
Feb 3 2019 4:19PM
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TOAST.
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Since NS isn't a publication i would assume that the site will continue to exist but will be producing very little of its own content.
Feb 3 2019 5:05PM
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DominatorJacques
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Bummer. It could be gone. It happened to EpicSki.Com. It was a good site full of great information along with all the rest.
Vail gave the site the shaft. It was like screw you all for the domain name epicski.com. They got it.
Feb 3 2019 10:14PM
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DominatorJacques
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DominatorJacquesBummer. It could be gone. It happened to EpicSki.Com. It was a good site full of great information along with all the rest.
Vail gave the site the shaft. It was like screw you all for the domain name epicski.com. They got it.

This is what they said.

The EpicSki Forum was closed May 12, 2017. We know this
is a disappointment for many users and that some wanted us to transfer
the forum’s content to another provider. Unfortunately, a number of
operational, legal and other considerations made selling or giving the
archive to anyone else too challenging.

In other words.....screw you all.
Feb 3 2019 10:34PM
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SkiBum.
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I mean, content and members and online people and content has gone down a ton over the past 5 years. Like free fall stock market 2008 free fall.

Not really sure how the site stays afloat. Huge bummer considering how this place was 8 or 10 or more years ago.
Feb 3 2019 10:59PM
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MUTEDLTD.
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I hate to speculate that NS would be on the chopping block, but knowing that this is a niche site can change the dynamic a little... especially if they’re already cleaning house on employees. With this knowledge now, if the team at NS needs our support I hope they let us know so we can speak up or do what we can as a community. With the reach & audience of NS’s insta tho, they could be safe. Hoping for the best :/
Feb 4 2019 9:45AM
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SofaKingSick
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It’s time for a bake sale boys let’s gooooo


Needless to say the NS bake sale will be entirely weed cookies so we’ll make a tiny bit more cash than usual bake sales. So we got that going for us...which is nice
Feb 4 2019 11:10AM
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tsingtaofanatic
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They don't rly give a shit about us
we g
Feb 4 2019 12:32PM
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DirtYStylE
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I don't feel so good...
Feb 4 2019 12:40PM
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eheath
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NS aint going anywhere boys, don't worry.
Feb 4 2019 12:46PM
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SuspiciousFish
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eheathNS aint going anywhere boys, don't worry.



Good to hear. It was bad enough when we lost Freeze.
Feb 4 2019 1:32PM
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corona
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eheathNS aint going anywhere boys, don't worry.


Will we notice a difference?
Feb 4 2019 3:29PM
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Woos
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It's not gonna go anywhere and even if it did, what's stopping me or someone else who knows how to run a website from making a clone with a similar domain? 4chan and other forums have changed owners hundreds of times and a lot of those websites were already having issues hosting due to certain content showing up on their website.
Feb 4 2019 5:19PM
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Park_Ranger
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eheathNS aint going anywhere boys, don't worry.


What about the pink names, Evan? No wonder this site is going to get nuked, the head mod is a sexist bigot!
Feb 4 2019 5:47PM
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TOAST.
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eheathNS aint going anywhere boys, don't worry.


Thats what the guy at Sears told me when i was looking for a new fridge.
Feb 4 2019 7:00PM
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DominatorJacques
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eheathNS aint going anywhere boys, don't worry.

That's what Vail said about epicski.com when the bought it. Then truth came out! Boom! Gone! All for a domain name!
Feb 4 2019 7:26PM
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evaroni
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I can survive another NS merger as long as it doesn’t fuck with my DM’s.

What up pink names?
Feb 4 2019 7:53PM
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corona
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There's a awful lot of silence from NS employees..
Feb 5 2019 8:38AM
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eheath
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VinnieFThere's a awful lot of silence from NS employees..


Again, there is nothing to worry about. TEN got bought by a new company, NS is going to operate just as it has for years, just a different name up top. TEN went from being owned by a VC to a media company, there are plenty of opportunities on the horizon and thing are business as usual at NS.

There's a ton going on around this situation and it's understandable that there would be concern about the future of NS, but like I said we ain't going nowhere fam.
Feb 5 2019 11:57AM
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SeamusAul
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eheethso we going r/newschoolers or tgr when this happens?


I vote r/newschoolers

**This post was edited on Feb 5th 2019 at 1:17:54pm
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