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The ''Kimberley Bulletin'' is a weekly newspaper in
Kimberley, British Columbia
Kimberley is a city in southeast British Columbia, Canada along British Columbia Highway 95A, Highway 95A between the Purcell Mountains, Purcell and Rocky Mountains. Kimberley was named in 1896 after the Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kimberley mine i ...
. It publishes Wednesday and is owned by
Black Press
Black Press Group Ltd. (BPG) is a Canadian commercial printer and newspaper publisher founded in 1975 by David Holmes Black. Based in Surrey, British Columbia, it was previously owned by the publisher of ''Toronto Star'' ( Torstar, 19.35%) and B ...
.
History
The ''Bulletin'' used to publish Mondays through Fridays, billing itself as "Canada's smallest daily newspaper".
[ It is owned by Victoria-based ]Black Press
Black Press Group Ltd. (BPG) is a Canadian commercial printer and newspaper publisher founded in 1975 by David Holmes Black. Based in Surrey, British Columbia, it was previously owned by the publisher of ''Toronto Star'' ( Torstar, 19.35%) and B ...
, the largest publisher of weekly newspapers
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*Weekly newspaper, any news ...
in British Columbia
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.
Don Kendall, a former executive at Black Press, purchased the ''Daily Bulletin'' and ''Cranbrook Daily Townsman'' in July 2010, as part of a larger deal that saw
Glacier Media
Glacier Media is a Canadian business information and media products company. It provides news, market information and sector-specific data within North America and internationally.
Glacier is headquartered in Vancouver. Its primary operations ar ...
sell several of its British Columbia papers to Black. At the time, Kendall said Black "wasn't as interested in some titles –
Cranbrook, Kimberley,
Nelson
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, and
Prince Rupert
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– but Glacier was only selling the papers as a block."
Black did purchase the ''
Nelson Daily News'' and ''
Prince Rupert Daily News'' in 2010, and ended up closing them days later. It already owned competing weeklies in both Nelson and Prince Rupert.
Although it also owns a competing weekly in Cranbrook, the ''Kootenay Advertiser'', Black purchased the ''Daily Townsman'' and ''Daily Bulletin'' from Kendall a year later, promising that both the weekly and the dailies "will continue to run under their current business plan and we anticipate few changes".
See also
*''
Cranbrook Daily Townsman''
*
List of newspapers in Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers
Local weeklies Alberta
* Bashaw – ''Bashaw Star''
* Bassano – ''Bassano Times''
* Beaumont – ''Beaumont News''
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References
External links
''Kimberley Daily Bulletin''– Official website.
Newspapers established in 1932
1932 establishments in British Columbia
Black Press newspapers
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Weekly newspapers published in British Columbia