Yet another confusing chapter in the CMP Technology Media Saga

BY SDH We won’t lie. We had our Tony Uphoff piece all set and ready to go since the beginning of this week believing he would have been named CEO of Long Island based technology media company CMP. But instead what we got was more of the same. United Business Media, CMP's parent company has announced that the company known as CMP will be no more. Instead the company will be broken up into four separate businesses with four CEOs. Confusing and senseless? Absolutely, but be on the look out for individuals who will try to dig up some good from this bazaar new structure. Structures like these only work for major companies with billion dollar business units. But for a company CMP's size, who are we kidding? Basically nothing has changed much. The company already had four business groups with four Presidents overseeing them. Some things were moved around and titles were changed and that’s about it. This just adds to something we have been saying for a long time that CMP, has been struggling to find its image for years even with its status as the industry leader. The name change, the out of the blue departure of Steve Weitzner etc. This is probably Levin’s way of putting himself up on a higher perch having four more CEOs reporting to him. This will all lead to a sale one day, because United Business Media seems Clueless when it comes to what they should be doing with CMP. Hey Uphoff at least you still got a CEO title.