Evening Post Industries is a privately held American media company, based in

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. It has been led by four generations of the Manigault family. On August 6, 2013, the company changed its name from the Evening Post Publishing Company to Evening Post Industries. In a press release, CEO John Barnwell stated, “The name change better reflects our existing diversified holdings and ongoing acquisition strategy in beyond media, while keeping the legacy value of Evening Post." In addition to ''

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'' of Charleston, the South's oldest daily newspaper, the company owns six other newspapers in South Carolina, including the '' Aiken Standard''. Other holdings include White Oak Forestry Company, and a marketing agency, Clear Night Group.

History

The Evening Post Publishing Company was formed by rice planter Arthur Manigault in 1896 to acquire ''The Evening Post'', Charleston's then-ailing afternoon newspaper."Evening Post Industries History,"
Evening Post Industries official website. Accessed Jan. 3, 2018. Manigault's son Robert became publisher in 1924. Two years later, he bought Charleston's morning paper, ''The News & Courier''–the oldest daily newspaper in the South. The company launched an international syndication arm, Editors Press Service, in 1933. Robert's brother Edward took over in 1945 after Robert's death; he was in turn succeeded by his son Peter. Peter's son, Pierre, inherited the company upon Peter's death in 2004. In 2004, the Evening Post Publishing Company sold Editors Press Service to the

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, which renamed it Atlantic Syndication. The company also owned the ''

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'' in Argentina, Latin America's oldest English language newspaper, until 2007. On October 29, 2018, Cordillera Communications announced it had entered into a deal with the

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for Scripps to purchase all but one TV station, the Tucson, Arizona station, from Cordillera. The deal was expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.

Evening Post Industries Properties

Newspapers

* ''

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* '' The Georgetown Times'' -

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* '' The Kingstree News'' -

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* '' Aiken Standard'' -

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* '' Moultrie News'' -

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* '' Summerville Journal-Scene'' -

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* '' The Berkeley Independent'' -

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* '' Goose Creek Gazette'' -

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* '' Waccamaw Times'' - Pawleys Island, South Carolina * '' The Star'' -

North Augusta, South Carolina North Augusta is a city in Aiken and Edgefield counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, on the north bank of the Savannah River. It lies directly across the river, and state border, from Augusta, Georgia. The population was 24,379 at the ...

* '' Free Times'' -

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Television stations

Evening Post's broadcasting division was called Cordillera Communications. The licensees had different names (most of which bear the station call letters, current, former (as in the case of KBZK's owners being KCTZ Communications (former call letters), or parent (repeaters only): KOAA (Sangre de Cristo (''Blood of Christ'') Communications) does not, however). Cordillera Communications was a holding company headquartered in

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. On October 29, 2018, it was announced that the

would acquire 15 of the 16 Cordillera stations, with

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acquiring KVOA due to Scripps already owning

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. The sale was approved by the FCC on April 5, 2019. The transaction was completed on May 1. The following stations, arranged alphabetically by

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, were owned by Cordillera:

Notes

References

External links

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