A court just ruled that the San Francisco
Bay Guardian is entitled to half the advertising revenue of the rival
SF Weekly to help collect $21 million in damages after a jury verdict of
illegal price-cutting, a Superior Court commissioner ruled Tuesday. The order would give the
Guardian its first substantial payment on the March 2008 verdict.
The ad revenue
would be "a very significant" amount, as much as $200,000 a month, said Jay Adkisson, a Guardian lawyer. The SF Weekly's parent company, Village Voice Media Holdings, will ask a state
appeals court to overturn the ruling. The VVM chain's 14 publications include the Village Voice and the LA Weekly.
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