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Troubled Gay Publisher David Unger Resurfaces … Hunting for Media Investments?
You remember David Unger, right? He’s the Window Media chief who was forced out of his top job at gay media investor Avalon Equity and remains under the eye of federal investigators, who’d like to know where a sizable chunk of change went. So what to do when your reputation in gay media is stained?
Take up a gig at investment house Knight Libertas, where your job description includes finding investments in … media!
Libertas, which manages $1.6 billion, will look to Unger (pictured, right) to find companies in radio, TV, and cable. Which, to be fair, is an industry Unger knows well: At Avalon, he bought Cable Michigan for $435 million and flipped to to Charter Communications in 1999 for $845 million. He didn’t have such luck at Window.
The folks at Queerty sure love this guy…was someone fired by him or his company? The unrelenting attention to this man would suggest..something personal.
It’s something personal. It always is……right?
Agreed, although they’re pretty fair in this posting.
Thank you Queerty. I think it smart of you to print this. Whether we like it or not ALL media will eventually be read over the internet and who else but a gay blog would have carried this story?
I find the shenanigans of people like this guy newsworthy. Keep in mind it is our dollars they come after and we SHOULD know what we are dealing with. I am not passing judgement on this guy but that is my opinion.
What I find more interesting is that John gave credible evidence that Next is lying to people about buying HX and no one has followed up on it. If Next did buy HX, are they responsible for running ads people pre-paid for?
Who will share his jerkness with the new team?