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Times-Shamrock Communications
Times-Shamrock Communications is an American media company based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The company, owned by the Lynett and Haggerty families of Scranton, lists among its assets nine radio stations. Assets Radio stations * WZBA, Baltimore, Maryland (city of license: Westminster, MD) * WEJL Scranton, Pennsylvania * WEZX/ WPZX/ WFUZ/ WLGD Scranton, Pennsylvania * WQFM/ WQFN Scranton, Pennsylvania * WLDB, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * WLUM, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * WZTI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Milwaukee radio stations are operated by Milwaukee Radio Alliance, a partnership between Shamrock Communications, Times-Shamrock's broadcasting affiliate, and Willie Davis's All-Pro Broadcasting, Inc. Davis died on April 15, 2020, leaving his estate as the partner in the MRA. In January 2008, Times-Shamrock Communications launched the570.com, a regional entertainment portal covering the 570 area code. Former properties In August 2013, Times-Shamrock announced it would divest several of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Scranton is the most populous city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley metropolitan area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, sixth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. The contiguous network of five City, cities and more than 40 boroughs all built in a straight line in Northeastern Pennsylvania's urban core act culturally and logistically as one continuous city, so while Scranton is a mid-sized city, the larger Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area contains half a million residents in roughly 300 square miles (780 km2). Scranton is the cultural and economic center of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a region of the state with over 1.3 million residents. Scranton hosts a United States federal courts, federal court building for the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Scene
The ''Cleveland Scene'' is an alternative weekly newspaper based in Cleveland, Ohio. The newspaper includes highlights of Cleveland-area arts, music, dining, and films, as well as classified advertising. The first edition of the newspaper was published in the 1970s. ''Cleveland Scene'' provides a yearly "Best Of" list for the Cleveland and outlying areas that includes Best Restaurants, Best Clubs, Best Theater, etc. ''Cleveland Scene'' employs regular columnists as well as freelance journalists. In 2002, New Times Media, which published ''The Scene'', agreed to shut down its Los Angeles alternative paper in exchange for an $8 million payment, while Village Voice Media agreed to shut down its competing '' Cleveland Free Times'' for a smaller payment, triggering a federal antitrust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZTI
KZTI (105.3 FM, "Jammin 105.3") is a Rhythmic AC formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Fallon Station, Nevada, serving Reno, Nevada. KZTI is owned and operated by Lazer Media. History The station, which had flipped from adult standards on September 14, 2015, originally billed itself as "Z-Rock 105.3" until October 9, 2015, when it changed the moniker to "105.3 Rock Hard" as they can not use the "Z-Rock" branding due to Cumulus Media owning the rights to the name (Cumulus also has stations that compete against the Times-Shamrock outlets in Reno). In 2016, it slightly rebranded as "Z105.3 Rock Hard". On August 1, 2017, KZTI changed its format to regional Mexican, branded as "Radio Lazer". (info taken from stationintel.com) On August 3, 2023, KZTI changed its format from regional Mexican to Spanish rhythmic, branded as "Kalor 105.3". On August 15, 2024, at Midnight, KZTI flipped to a rhythmic adult contemporary format as "Jammin 105.3"; the first song under the format wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUEZ
KUEZ (104.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Fallon, Nevada serving the Reno metropolitan area. It is owned by John Burkavage, with Big Horn Media, Inc. as the licensee. It broadcasts a soft adult contemporary radio format. KUEZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is in Churchill County off Interstate 80 near the Fallon Rest Stop. KUEZ also has a booster station in Reno on 104.1 MHz, KUEZ-FM1 with an ERP of 17,500 watts. History In 2009, Shamrock Communications was granted a construction permit to build a new FM station northeast of Reno and licensed to Fallon. It took three years to get the station on the air. On November 12, 2012, the station signed on, airing an alternative rock format. On August 2, 2017, KRZQ was acquired by Big Horn Media from Shamrock Communications. The station changed to Soft Adult Contemporary, branded as Easy 104.1 under the new call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entravision
Entravision Communications Corporation is an American media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations and outdoor media, in several of the top Hispanic markets. It is the largest affiliate group of the Univision and UniMás television networks. Entravision also owns a small number of English-language television and radio stations. History On August 4, 2006, Entravision sold five of its radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth area to Liberman Broadcasting. On May 16, 2008, the company sold its outdoor media division, whose operations were primarily based in New York and Los Angeles, to Lamar Advertising Company. In 2007, Entravision Communications Corporation acquired Spanish-language radio station WNUE-FM serving the Orlando, Florida, market from Mega Communications for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $24 million. On 2018, Entravision acquired Barcelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The News-Item
''The News-Item'' is the main newspaper serving the City of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding areas. It is based in Shamokin. History On October 1, 2015, Sample News Group acquired ''The News-Item'' and other properties from Times-Shamrock Communications Times-Shamrock Communications is an American media company based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The company, owned by the Lynett and Haggerty families of Scranton, lists among its assets nine radio stations. Assets Radio stations * WZBA, Baltimore .... References External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:News-Item Newspapers published in Pennsylvania Newspapers established in 1969 1969 establishments in Pennsylvania Shamokin, Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Review
''The Daily Review'' (sometimes referred to as ''The Review'') is a daily broadsheet newspaper, serving Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Bradford and Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, Sullivan Counties of Pennsylvania. Its main office is in Towanda, Pennsylvania with branch offices in Troy, Pennsylvania, Troy and Sayre, Pennsylvania, Sayre. It is owned by Sample News Group of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. ''The Review'' publishes a newspaper on Saturday mornings, called ''The Weekend Review''. History ''The Daily Review'' was established in 1879. The Towanda Printing Company, a company formed for the sole purpose of purchasing The Review, purchased in it 1903. In 1977, Times-Shamrock Communications purchased the Towanda Printing Company, thereby purchasing ''The Daily Review''. On October 1, 2015, Times-Shamrock Communications sold its Towanda Printing Company segment, including ''The Daily Review'', to Sample News Group. From 1987 to 2019, ''The Daily Review'' published ''The Sunday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Huntingdon is a borough in and county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in the Middle Atlantic states region of the Northeastern United States. It lies along the Juniata River about east of larger Altoona and west of the state capital of Harrisburg on the Susquehanna River. With a population of 6,827 in the 2020 United States census, U.S. Decennial Census, it is the largest population center near Raystown Lake, a winding, flood-control reservoir managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The borough is on the main line of the Norfolk Southern Railway, Norfolk Southern freight railway (formerly the longtime Pennsylvania Railroad) in an agricultural and outdoor recreational region with extensive forests and scattered deposits of Ganister, ganister rock, coal, fire clay, and limestone deposits. Historically, the region surrounding Huntingdon was dotted with iron furnaces and forges, consuming limestone, iron ore and wood (for charcoal production) throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sample News Group
Sample News Group, LLC is an American publisher of newspapers serving suburban and rural markets in the tri-state area of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Vermont. The company is family owned and structured as a limited liability company. According to their website, their address is in State College, Pennsylvania. History Sample News Group was founded by George Raymond Sample, Jr. (1924–2008). Sample was married to a woman named Janet. As of October 2022, George "Scoop" Sample (; born 1952), one of eight children of George Sample Jr., is the CEO. Scoop's hometown is Corry, Pennsylvania. The group is also actively managed by Scoop's wife, Marlene Sample ( aka "Sissie" Kane; ; born 1951). The family of Joseph Franklin Biddle sold the Joseph F. Biddle Publishing Company to Sample in October 1991; the deal included Huntingdon's ''Daily News'', as well as three other publications. In 2018, Sample purchased '' The Times Record'' and the '' Journal Tribune'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GateHouse Media
GateHouse Media Inc. was an American publisher of locally based print and digital media. It published 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Its parent company, New Media Investment Group, acquired Gannett in 2019, with the combined company using the Gannett name and maintaining its headquarters in Virginia. History Liberty Group Publishing Liberty Group Publishing was formed in 1998 when Kenneth L. Serota, a former Hollinger International attorney with backing from Leonard Green & Partners, bought 160 community newspapers from Hollinger. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Liberty then expanded the network increasing the total newspapers to 330 by 2000. Faced with problems, it downsized to 270 by June 2005. GateHouse Media In June 2005, Fortress Investment Group bought Liberty for $527 million. Fortress expanded it to 75 dailies, 231 weeklies, 117 shoppers, and 230 websites. It was renamed GateHouse and its head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Progress-Index
The ''Progress-Index'' is a daily newspaper published in Petersburg, Virginia. Its print edition is published Monday through Sunday morning, and its website is updated regularly throughout the day with breaking news, feature stories, photographs and videos. History The paper's roots trace to 1865, but its current moniker came about through the early-1920s merger of the ''Index-Appeal'' and the ''Evening Progress''. It was owned by various Petersburg businessmen until 1959, when Thomson Newspapers of Canada purchased it. Thomson owned ''The Progress-Index'' until 1997, when it sold it to Times-Shamrock Communications, a privately held media company based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Its current building, at 15 Franklin St. in downtown Petersburg, was built in 1921, along with what was then a state-of-the-art press. This was before the merger of the two papers into ''The Index-Appeal & Evening Progress'', shortened to ''The Progress-Index'' in 1923. In 2014, Times-Shamrock sold ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Islands Daily News
The ''Virgin Islands Daily News'' is a daily newspaper in the United States Virgin Islands headquartered on the island of Saint Thomas. In 1995 the newspaper became one of the smallest ever to win journalism's most prestigious award, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The newspaper is published every day except Sunday. The paper maintains its main office on Saint Thomas and a smaller bureau on Saint Croix. Business history The ''Virgin Islands Daily News'' was founded by Ariel Melchior Sr. in 1930, with business partner J. Antonio Jarvis leveraging a tourist brochure financed with a bank loan cosigned by friend Adolph Achille Gereau. With the success of the brochure he was able to attract further advertising and convince his family and the bank to extend a larger loan. He first produced an updated guide to the island and with the proceeds bought a second-hand press. With the profits of the newspaper, he repaid the bank. Melchior was just 21 at the time. The paper was foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
