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Holyoke Daily Transcript
The ''Holyoke Transcript-Telegram'', or ''T‑T'', was an afternoon daily newspaper covering the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States, and adjacent portions of Hampden County and Hampshire County. Published as a daily since 1882, after four years of heavy losses the newspaper ceased publication in January 1993; at the time it was one of the longest running Massachusetts papers to fold, two decades longer than the ''Boston Post''. Long owned by the Dwight family, the ''T-T'''s last owner was Newspapers of New England, which had been founded by the Dwights as a holding company for the ''T-T'' and other newspapers it had acquired. With the departure of the ''T-T'', Holyoke lost its only newspaper of record. Daily newspaper readers in the city turned to newspapers in nearby cities, which increased their coverage of Holyoke: the ''Union-News'' of Springfield, now called '' The Republican''; and the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' of Northampton. History Abolitionist orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield Republican
''The Republican'' is a newspaper based in Springfield, Massachusetts, covering news in the Greater Springfield area, as well as national news and pieces from Boston, Worcester and northern Connecticut. It is owned by Newhouse Newspapers, a division of Advance Publications. Throughout much of the 19th century, the paper was the largest circulating daily in New England and the most widely-read across the U.S., and played a key role in the United States Republican Party's founding. Abraham Lincoln was an avid reader. The newspaper became the first American periodical to publish a poem authored by an African American writer. By 2024, ''The Republican''s daily circulation had plummeted to 9,388, according to an audit published in the newspaper on September 27, 2024. Content from ''The Republican'' is published online to ''MassLive'', a separate Advance Publications company. ''MassLive'' had a record six million unique monthly visitors in June 2019. Beginning Established by Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Hampshire
New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, seventh-smallest by land area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, tenth-least populous, with a population of 1,377,529 residents as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Concord, New Hampshire, Concord is the List of capitals in the United States, state capital and Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester is the List of municipalities in New Hampshire, most populous city. New Hampshire's List of U.S. state mottos, motto, "Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its state nickname, nickname, "The Granite State", refers to its ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley News
The ''Valley News'' is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, covering the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont, in the United States. Although the newspaper's offices are in Lebanon, its mailing address is a post office box in nearby White River Junction, Vermont. The newspaper covers communities on both sides of the Connecticut River, which forms the state line. The paper's circulation is 16,522. The current editor is Matt Clary. The paper was founded in 1952 by Allan Churchill Butler. Shortly thereafter he sold the paper to James D. Ewing and Walter Paine. Paine would serve as editor and publisher of the paper for twenty-four years. In 2012, the ''Valley News'', the '' Nashua Telegraph'', and PolitiFact established "PolitiFact '12 NH," a fact-checking effort focused on the candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election. At the time, Jeffrey Good was the ''Valley News editor. Newspapers of New England, a private comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concord Monitor
The ''Concord Monitor'' is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire. It also covers surrounding towns in Merrimack County, most of Belknap County, as well as portions of Grafton, Rockingham and Hillsborough counties. The ''Monitor'' has several times been named as one of the best small papers in America and in April 2008, became a Pulitzer Prize winning paper, when photographer Preston Gannaway was honored for feature photography. After publishing seven days a week for decades, starting in March 2024, it ceased print publication on Sundays. History The ''Monitor'' has been published continuously since 1864, under a variety of names, including the ''Evening Monitor'', and owners. In the late 19th century it was owned by a publishing company called the Republican Press Association which also published a paper named the ''Independent Statesman''. Its masthead calls it the ''Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot'', although the ''Monitor'' name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Recorder (Greenfield)
''The Greenfield Recorder'' is an American daily newspaper published Monday through Saturday mornings in Greenfield, Massachusetts, covering all of Franklin County, Massachusetts. It is owned by Newspapers of New England, which also owns its neighbor to the south, the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' of Northampton, Massachusetts. As the Greenfield area's only newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large newspaper circulation, circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and i ..., ''The Recorder'' is the primary source of local news in Franklin County. Originally published in 1792, the paper is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States, and the second oldest daily in Massachusetts after the ''Daily Hampshire Gazette''. References External links * Mass media in Franklin County, Massachusetts Newspapers publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGGB-TV
WGGB-TV (channel 40) is a television station in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, affiliated with ABC, Fox, and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power CBS affiliate WSHM-LD (channel 33). The two stations share studios on Liberty Street in Springfield; WGGB-TV's transmitter is located on Mount Tom in Holyoke. History The station signed on April 14, 1953, as WHYN-TV, broadcasting an analog signal on UHF channel 55. It was the second television station to launch in the Springfield market, debuting one month after NBC affiliate WWLP (channel 61, now on channel 22). WHYN-TV was founded by Hampden-Hampshire Corporation, the owners of WHYN radio ( 560 AM and 93.1 FM); the stations were in turn jointly owned by the owners of the '' Holyoke Transcript-Telegram'' and the Northampton-based ''Daily Hampshire Gazette''. In 1954, a 50% interest in Hampden-Hampshire Corporation was purchased by the employees beneficial funds of the Springfield ''Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHYN (AM)
WHYN (560 kHz "''NewsRadio 560/98.9 FM WHYN''") is a commercial AM news/talk radio station licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves the Pioneer Valley area of western Massachusetts and is owned by iHeartMedia. Studios and offices are on Main Street in Springfield. The transmitter is on County Road in Southampton. WHYN operates at 5,000 watts by day, using a directional antenna, but must reduce power to 1,000 watts at night to avoid interfering with other stations on 560 kHz. Programming Weekdays begin with a local news and interview morning show with Jim Polito and John Baibak. That is followed by nationally syndicated talk shows including, Glenn Beck, The Financial Exchange, Clay Travis & Buck Sexton, Jesse Kelly, and ''Coast to Coast AM'' with George Noory. Boston-based Howie Carr is heard weekday afternoons. Weekends feature shows on finance, law, home-improvement and religion (some of which are paid brokered programming). Weekend syndicated hosts incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holyoke Street Railway
The Holyoke Street Railway (HSR) was an interurban streetcar and bus system operating in Holyoke, Massachusetts as well as surrounding communities with connections in Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst, Chicopee, Massachusetts, Chicopee, Easthampton, Massachusetts, Easthampton, Granby, Massachusetts, Granby, Northampton, Massachusetts, Northampton, Pelham, Massachusetts, Pelham, South Hadley, Sunderland, Westfield, Massachusetts, Westfield, and West Springfield, Massachusetts, West Springfield. Throughout its history the railway system shaped the cultural institutions of Mount Tom (Massachusetts), Mount Tom, being operator of the mountain's famous summit houses, one of which hosted President McKinley, the Mount Tom Railroad, and the trolley park at the opposite end of this funicular line, Mountain Park (Holyoke, Massachusetts), Mountain Park. In the history of American railroad engineering, the system was the first in the United States to make use of exothermic welding, better known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
