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NEW YORK CITY — Versant Media Group (Nasdaq: VSNT) has signed a 84,509-square-foot office lease expansion and 18-year extension in Midtown Manhattan. The owner of networks like MS NOW, CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, E!, SYFY and Oxygen now occupies 249,054 square feet across six floors at 229 West 43rd Street, a 15-story building that was constructed in 1912 as the home of The New York Times. CBRE represented Versant in the lease negotiations. The landlord, Columbia Property Trust, was self-represented.