Private company

CBD Media

Logo: http://www.spectrumequity.com/investments/investment?Id=1289, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3

Directory and advertising division of Cincinnati Bell

CBD Media LLC (formerly Cincinnati Bell Directory) is a division of Local Insight Media that publishes telephone directories under the Cincinnati Bell name.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2002Founded1
  • Industrytelephone directory1

CBD Media LLC (formerly Cincinnati Bell Directory) is a division of Local Insight Media that publishes telephone directories under the Cincinnati Bell name.2

The story

The company was created in 2002 following the sale of Cincinnati Bell Directory to a consortium led by Spectrum Equity.

CBD Media publishes the Cincinnati Bell Yellow Pages, which consists of 15 directories, published under the "Real Pages" name. CBD Media also operates CincinnatiBellYellowPages.com, the electronic yellow pages directory for Cincinnati Bell.

The company was acquired by Local Insight Media Holdings in 2007. Local Insight Media owned Local Insight Yellow Pages, the former directory division of Windstream.

In 2009, Local Insight acquired The Berry Company from AT&T, and changed its own name to The Berry Company LLC.

From Wikipedia’s article on CBD Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 2002Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4