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Calkins Media, Inc. was a media company. Established in 1937, Calkins Media brands included daily newspapers and digital sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a weekly newspaper in South Dade, Fla., and broadcast stations located in Huntsville, Ala., Tallahassee and Sarasota, Fla. Corporate and digital headquarters were located in Bucks County, Pa. In 2016, Raycom Media agreed to purchase Calkins Media's three television stations. A sale of WAAY-TV to Raycom affiliate American Spirit Media was blocked by the Department of Justice due to Raycom's ownership of WAFF. Raycom closed on the purchase of WWSB and WTXL-TV on May 1, 2017, while WAAY-TV was instead sold to Heartland Media. In 2017, GateHouse Media and
Ogden Newspapers Ogden Newspapers Inc. is a Wheeling, West Virginia based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, and shoppers guides. The company was founded by H.C. Ogden in 1890, and is currently run by the family of his gra ...
agreed to terms to purchase Calkins Media's newspaper assets.


Former Calkins Media assets


Newspapers

*'' The Beaver County Times'' - (now owned by
Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Bucks County Courier Times'' - (PA)The ''Bucks County Courier Times'' is a sister paper of ''The Intelligencer'' and the '' Burlington County Times''. - (now owned by Gannett) *'' Burlington County Times'' (NJ) - (now owned by Gannett) *''
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'' - (now owned by Gannett) *''
Greene County Messenger ''The Herald-Standard'' is a daily newspaper in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and it has a circulation of 30,000. The newspaper and the newspaper's website, Heraldstandard.com - Uniontown Newspapers, Inc., are owned by Ogden Newspapers. The ''Herald ...
'' - (now owned by Ogden Newspapers) *''(Uniontown, PA) The Herald-Standard'' - (now owned by Ogden Newspapers) *''
South Dade News Leader South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*su ...
'' - (now owned by South Dade News, Inc.) *'' The Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)'' - (now owned by Gannett)


Television stations

Stations arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license. Note: *1 The station is licensed to Sarasota, which is part of the Tampa market. However, WWSB does not serve all of the Tampa/St. Petersburg area as the ABC affiliate ( WFTS serves the Tampa metro area, WWSB serves the southern portion of the market). The station also serves portions of the Fort Myers market.


Footnotes

Companies based in Philadelphia Publishing companies established in 1937 Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States Defunct newspaper companies of the United States 1937 establishments in the United States Publishing companies disestablished in 2017 Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania Gannett {{US-publishing-company-stub