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News Media Companies With Same-Sex Only Domestic Partner Benefits Plans
(as of September 1999)


The percent enrolled is a percentage of total employees.

ABC INC. (a division of Disney). Offered corporate-wide as of 1994 to same-sex partners. Eligible: 7,000 employees not covered by union funds. Enrolled as of 1996: < 1%.

  1. ESPN

 
ABC Radio Stations:

  1. WABC-AM, New York, N.Y.
  2. WPLF-FM, New York, N.Y.
  3. KABC-AM, Los Angeles, Calif.
  4. KDIS-AM, Los Angeles, Calif.
  5. KLOS-FM, Los Angeles, Calif.
  6. WLS-AM, Chicago, Ill.
  7. WXCD-FM, Los Angeles, Calif.
  8. KGO-AM, San Francisco, Calif.
  9. KSFO-AM, San Francisco, Calif.
  10. KMKY-AM, San Francisco, Calif.
  11. KKDZ-AM, Seattle, Wash.
  12. WJR-AM, Detroit, Mich.
  13. WOLT-FM, Detroit, Mich.
  14. WDRQ-FM, Detroit, Mich.
  15. WBAP-AM, Dallas, Tex.
  16. KSCS-FM, Dallas, Tex.
  17. WMAL-AM, Washington, D.C.
  18. WRQX-FM, Washington, D.C.
  19. WJZW-FM, Washington, D.C.
  20. WDWD-AM, Atlanta, Ga.
  21. WKHX-FM, Atlanta, Ga.
  22. WYAY-FM, Atlanta, Ga.
  23. KDIZ-AM, Minneapolis, Minn.
  24. KQRS-FM, Minneapolis, Minn.
  25. KXXR-FM, Minneapolis, Minn.
  26. KZNR-FM, Minneapolis, Minn.
  27. KZNT-FM, Minneapolis, Minn.
  28. KZNZ-FM, Minneapolis, Minn.
  29. WIBV-AM, St. Louis, Mo.
  30. WMIH-AM, Cleveland, Ohio

 

ABC Television Stations:

  1. WABC, New York, N.Y.
  2. KABC, Los Angeles, Calif.
  3. WLS, Chicago, Ill.
  4. WPVI, Philadelphia, Penn.
  5. KGO, San Francisco, Calif.
  6. KTRK, Houston, Tex.
  7. WTVD, Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
  8. KFSN, Fresno, Calif.
  9. WJRT, Flint, Mich.
  10. WTVG, Toledo, Ohio

 

ABC’s Fairchild Publications:

  1. Jane
  2. Los Angeles Magazine
  3. W
  4. Women's Wear Daily
  5. Daily News Record
  6. Footwear News
  7. Supermarket News
  8. Home Furnishings News
  9. Brand Marketing
  10. Executive Technology
  11. Sportstyle
  12. Children's Business
  13. Salon News
  14. High Points Magazine
  15. Fairchild News Service
  16. The Fairchild Syndicate

 

BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN, Bakersfield, Calif. Offered since at least 1996. This private company declined to give details.

 

CHRONICLE PUBLISHING, San Francisco, Calif. Individual divisions allowed to choose DP benefits as of 1995. All eligible. Approximately 1,000 of 2,400 non-Newspaper Guild employees eligible; <10 (<1%) enrolled. NOTE: A pending purchase of the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate by the Hearst Corp. should not change DP benefits there. Other Chronicle properties were for sale as we went to press.

 

Chronicle Properties with DP Benefits:

  1. Chronicle Books
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
  3. Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Mass. (1% enrolled as of 1997)
  4. BayTV, San Francisco
  5. KAKE-TV, Wichita, Kan.
  6. KRON-TV, San Francisco
  7. MBI, Osceola, Wisc. (book publishers)
  8. WOWT-TV, Omaha, Neb.
  9. SFGate, San Francisco

 

CMP MEDIA, Manhasset, N.Y. Offered corporate-wide as of 1994 to same-sex partners. Enrolled: 5 (0.3%) of 1,700 employees. (Note: Benefits in effect until 2000, then switch to benefits of new parent corporation, Miller-Freeman. See separate listing.)

CMP Properties with DP Benefits:

  1. Byte.com
  2. CMPnet (Websites: BYTE; ChannelWeb; CMPnet France; Computer Reseller News; Computer Retail Week; Data Communications; Electronic Buyers' News; EDTN; EE Times; InternetWeek; ISPs.com; Net Business; Nestrology; Network Computing; Planet IT; NSTL Test Labs; Semiconductor Business News; TechEncyclopedia; TechShopper; TechWeb; TechWeb Finance; TechWeb Internet; tele.com; UnixWorld; VARBusiness; WANsites)
  3. Computer Reseller News
  4. Computer Retail Week
  5. Data Communications
  6. Electronic Buyers' News
  7. EE Times
  8. Information Week
  9. InternetWeek
  10. Network Computing
  11. Semiconductor Business News
  12. tele.com
  13. VAR Business
  14. WINDOWS Magazine

 

CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS, New York, N.Y. Offered company-wide as of 1995 to same-sex partners. Enrolled: < 2%.

 

Conde Nast Properties with DP Benefits:

  1. Allure
  2. Architectural Digest
  3. Bon Appetit
  4. Brides
  5. Conde Nast Traveler
  6. CondeNet
  7. Details
  8. Glamour
  9. Gourmet
  10. GQ
  11. House & Garden
  12. Mademoiselle
  13. Self
  14. The New Yorker
  15. Vanity Fair
  16. Vogue
  17. Wired
  18. Women's Sports & Fitness

 

CNET, San Francisco, Calif. Offered as of 1998.

 

FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, New York, N.Y. Offered as of 1996 to same-sex partners. Of 8,000 non-union eligible employees (among 17,000 total employees), 50 (0.6%) enrolled. (Note: News America/News Corp., a Fox division, handles its benefits separately. See separate listing.)

Fox Properties with DP Benefits:

  1. WAGA, Atlanta, Ga.
  2. WBCR, Birmingham, Ala.
  3. WFXT, Boston, Mass.
  4. WFLD, Chicago, Ill.
  5. WJW, Cleveland, Ohio
  6. KDVR, Denver, Colo.
  7. WJBK, Detroit, Mich.
  8. WGHP, Greensboro, N.C.
  9. WDAF, Kansas City, Mo.
  10. WHBQ, Memphis, Tenn.
  11. WITI, Milwaukee, Minn.
  12. KSAZ, Phoenix, Ariz.
  13. KSTU, Salt Lake City, Utah
  14. WTVT, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fla.
  15. Fox News
  16. Fox News Channel
  17. Fox Broadcasting
  18. Fox Sports
  19. Fox Sports Channel
  20. Harper Collins (book publishing)

 

HEARST CORP., New York, N.Y. Corporate directive in 1997 encouraged individual properties to offer DP benefits. Total employees: approximately 10,000. NOTE: As we went to press, Hearst announced plans to sell or close the San Francisco Examiner and to purchase from Chronicle Publishing the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate. (See Chronicle Publishing, above.)

Hearst Properties with DP Benefits:
(limited to same-sex couples unless otherwise noted)

Hearst Newspaper Group:

  1. Albany Times-Union
  2. Beaumont Enterprise, Tex.
  3. Huron Daily Tribune, Mich.
  4. Laredo Morning Times, Tex.
  5. Midland Daily News, Mich.
  6. Midland Reporter-Telegram, Mich.
  7. Plainview Daily Herald
  8. San Antonio Express-News, Tex.:same and opposite-sex partners are eligible
  9. San Francisco Examiner: same and opposite-sex partners are eligible

 

Hearst Magazines:

  1. Colonial Homes
  2. Cosmopolitan
  3. Country Living
  4. Country Living Gardener
  5. Esquire
  6. Good Housekeeping
  7. Harper's Bazaar
  8. House Beautiful
  9. Marie Claire
  10. Motor Boating & Sailing
  11. Popular Mechanics
  12. Redbook
  13. SmartMoney
  14. Sports Afield
  15. Town & Country
  16. Victoria

 

Hearst New Media & Technology Group:

  1. Hearst New Media Center
  2. HomeArts Network

 

Hearst-Argyle Television:

  1. KMBC, Kansas City, Mo.
  2. WBAL, Baltimore, M.D.
  3. WCVB, Boston, Mass.
  4. WISN, Milwaukee, Wisc.
  5. WTAE, Pittsburgh, Penn.
  6. KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City, Okla.
  7. WAPT-TV, Jackson, Miss.
  8. WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, Ohio
  9. KCWE Division, Kansas City, Mo.
  10. KSBW-TV, Salinas, Calif.
  11. WPTZ/WNNE-TV, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
  12. Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., New York, N.Y.

 

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL NEWS GROUP, Rockville, Md. A division of Harcourt-General, which instituted DP benefits for same-sex partners corporate-wide as of 1998.

 

KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS, INC., Mountain View, Calif. Individual divisions allowed to choose DP benefits as of 1997 for same-sex partners. Enrolled: 90 (0.4%) of 22,000 employees.

Properties with DP Benefits:

  1. Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio
  2. Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.
  3. Brentwood News, Calif.
  4. Charlotte Observer, N.C.
  5. Contra Costa Newspapers, Calif. (Contra Costa Times; Valley Times, Pleasanton; West County Times, Richmond)
  6. Detroit Free Press, Mich.
  7. Florida Keys Keynoter
  8. Fort Wayne Newspapers/The News-Sentinel, Ind.
  9. Fort Worth and Arlington Star-Telegrams, Tex.
  10. Hills Newspapers, Oakland, Calif. (The Berkeley Voice, The Montclarion, The Alameda Journal, The Piedmonter)
  11. Kansas City Star, Mo.
  12. Knight-Ridder Corporate
  13. Knight-Ridder Shared Services Center
  14. Knight-Ridder Tribune News Service, Washington, D.C.
  15. Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.
  16. Macon Telegraph, Macon, Ga.
  17. MediaStream
  18. Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Fla.
  19. Monterey County Herald, Monterey, Calif.
  20. Philadelphia Daily News, Penn.
  21. Philadelphia Inquirer, Penn.
  22. Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn.
  23. San Jose Mercury News, Calif.
  24. San Luis Obispo Telegram Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
  25. The Cambrian, Cambria, Calif.
  26. The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Newspaper Guild members)
  27. The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barr, Penn.

 

MACTEMPS, San Francisco, Calif. Offered to same-sex partners. Company supplies temporary employees to editorial staffs of sidewalk.com and other media outlets.

 

NEW YORK TIMES CO., New York, N.Y. Offered to same-sex partners of non-unionized employees: 15 (0.2%) of 7,000 enrolled. Some divisions also have contracts that include DP benefits for some of the corporation's 6,500 unionized workers (indicated by a U after the listing below)

N.Y. Times Newspapers:

  1. The New York Times, N.Y. (U)
  2. Boston Globe, Mass. (U)
  3. Times Co. Digital (U)
  4. The Gadsden Times, Ala.
  5. The Tuscaloosa News, Ala.
  6. Times Daily, Florence, Ala.
  7. Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif.
  8. The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif.
  9. Daily News, Palatka, Fla.
  10. Lake City Reporter, Fla.
  11. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Fla.
  12. Star-Banner, Ocala, Fla.
  13. The Gainesville Sun, Fla.
  14. The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.
  15. Daily World, Opelousas, La.
  16. The Courier, Houma, La.
  17. The Daily Comet, Thibodaux, La.
  18. The Dispatch, Lexington, N.C.
  19. Times-News, Henderson, N.C.
  20. Wilmington Morning Star, N.C.
  21. Spartanburg Herald-Journal, S.C.

 

N.Y. Times Stations:

  1. WNEP-TV, Scranton, Penn.
  2. WTKR-TV, Norfolk, Va.
  3. WHNT-TV, Huntsville, Ala.
  4. KFSM-TV, Ft. Smith, Ark.
  5. WREG-TV, Memphis, Tenn.
  6. WQAD-TV, Moline, Ill.
  7. WHO-TV, Des Moines, Ill.
  8. KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City, Okla.
  9. WQXR-FM, New York, N.Y. (U)
  10. WQEW-AM, New York, N.Y.

 

N.Y. Times Magazines:

  1. Golf Digest
  2. Golf World
  3. Golf Shot Operations

 

NEWS AMERICA/NEWS CORP., New York, N.Y. (a division of Fox Entertainment that handles benefits separately from Fox). Offered corporate-wide as of 1998 to same-sex partners of U.S. employees. Enrolled: 4 (0.03%) of 12,500 U.S. employees.

News America Properties include:

  1. New York Post
  2. TV Guide
  3. Harper Collins

 

REUTERS, New York, N.Y. Offered as of 1995 to Wire Guild members and non-union employees.

 

SEATTLE TIMES, Seattle, Wash. Offered as of 1994 to same-sex partners. Enrolled: 10 (0.5%) of 2,000 employees.

 

ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, St. Petersburg, Fla. Offered as of 1997 to same-sex partners.

 

TIME WARNER, New York, N.Y. Offered as of 1994 to same-sex partners in "most of the company." (The only major unit not covered is Time-Warner Cable.) Enrolled: 128 (0.2%) of 67,000 employees.

Time Warner Properties with DP Benefits Include:

  1. CNN (Cable News Network)
  2. Entertainment Weekly
  3. Life magazine
  4. People magazine
  5. Progressive Farmer Today
  6. Southern Living
  7. Sports Illustrated
  8. Time magazine (0.3% of 3,500 employees enrolled as of 1997)
  9. Vibe
  10. Also book, video and electronic publishing operations, Warner Brothers Studios, and associated entertainment properties.

 

WASHINGTON POST CO., Washington, D.C. Individual properties allowed to choose DP benefits as of 1999 for same-sex partners. Enrolled: 20 (0.6%) of 3,500 employees so far.

Washington Post Properties with DP Benefits Include:

  1. The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
  2. Kaplan Educational Services, New York, N.Y.
  3. Legi-Slate, Inc., Washington, D.C.
  4. Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive, Arlington, Va.
  5. Post-Newsweek Business Information

 

Post-Newsweek Stations:

  1. WDIV, Detroit, Mich.
  2. KPRC, Houston, Tex.
  3. WPLG, Miami, Fla.
  4. WKMG, Orlando, Fla.
  5. KSAT, San Antonio, Tex.
  6. WJXT, Jacksonville, Fla.

 
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