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Trouble at Alpha Media.

Quadrangle Partners is in talks with lenders over restructuring Alpha Media Group, home of Maxim and Blender.

Quadrangle Partners acquired the company in 2007 for a reported $250 million, but the company is said to have borrowed more than half the funds to close the deal.

Not good.

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