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Digital
AOL sells three of its music websites to Townsquare
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 4 June 2013
Following the news in April that AOL was shutting its main American music service and online music magazine Spinner, now the web firm has sold three of its other music websites to Townsquare Media Group, the company that bought the blog and ad network side of the MOG business last August.
It was thought that country music site The Boot, hip hop and R&B service BoomBox and metal set-up NoiseCreep might all bite the dust as a result of AOL scaling down its US-based music operations, but they have seemingly been saved via the deal with Townsquare.
At least some of the staff who worked on the three AOL sites are expected to move over to Townsquare as part of the deal, where they will work alongside journalists and editors creating content for a number of other music and entertainment sites now owned by the media firm, whose Chief Digital officer, Bill Willson, is ex-AOL.
