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media group and cloud services provider. It owned newspapers.

History

The company was founded in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett with the creation of the ''

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.'' Over the years the company grew through the acquisition of other newspapers, media outlets, radio and television stations, digital companies, broadband operations and cloud services provider. The expanding company was renamed Schurz Communications Inc. in 1976, when the newspapers division and the TV/broadcast division were split into separate entities. In September 2015, Schurz announced it was selling its TV and radio stations to

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. Gray then resold Schurz's radio stations to three different buyers upon completion of its purchase of the Schurz broadcasting unit. In September 2016, The American News and Farm Forum, owned by Schurz, acquired '' The Public Opinion'' newspaper in

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from United Communications. In February 2018, the company acquired the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Online Tech. The compliant hybrid cloud provider serves nearly 500 clients across the Midwest with its network of seven data centers and full suite of hybrid cloud services. In December of that year, Online Tech acquired the assets and products of IT provider Neverfail. The acquisition includes Neverfail’s five cloud nodes and assets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In January 2019, Schurz sold its publishing division and all its newspapers to GateHouse Media for $30 million. This included 20 regional papers and several special publications in

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and South Dakota. GateHouse later bought the Gannett newspaper chain, and the expanded network of newspapers adopted the Gannett name. In March 2019 Schurz Communications bought the city-owned local broadband company Burlington Telecom of Burlington, Vermont for a total of $30.8 million.

Current properties

Broadband systems

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Former properties

Newspapers

* '' Imperial Valley Press'' - El Centro, California * ''Times Mail'' - Bedford, Indiana * ''Southside Times'' - Beech Grove, Indiana * '' The Herald-Times'' - Bloomington, Indiana * ''The Hoosier Topics'' - Cloverdale, Indiana * ''Fishers Weekly'' - Fishers, Indiana * ''Reporter-Times'' - Martinsville, Indiana * ''Mooresville-Decatur Times'' - Mooresville, Indiana * ''Noblesville Daily Times'' - Noblesville, Indiana * ''

'' - South Bend, Indiana ''(flagship)'' * ''Evening World'' - Spencer, Indiana * '' The Advocate-Messenger'' - Danville, Kentucky * ''The Jessamine Journal'' - Nicholasville, Kentucky * ''The Interior Journal'' - Stanford, Kentucky * ''The Winchester Sun'' - Winchester, Kentucky * '' The Herald-Mail'' - Hagerstown, Maryland * ''

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'' - Charlevoix, Michigan * '' Gaylord Herald Times'' - Gaylord, Michigan * '' Petoskey News-Review'' - Petoskey, Michigan * '' Daily American'' - Somerset, Pennsylvania * '' The American News'' - Aberdeen, South Dakota * '' The Public Opinion'' - Watertown, South Dakota

Radio

Notes: * ¹ Owned by Douglas Road Radio, Schurz held a minority interest in this company.

Television

* (**) – ''Indicates that it was built and signed on by Schurz''. Notes: * ¹ Owned by Schurz, WAGT was operated by

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under a shared services agreement, with WJBF. * ² Owned by

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, Schurz operated KDCU under a shared services agreement, with KWCH and KSCW. * ³ From February–May 2017, KGHZ used virtual channel 15, while K15CZ-D (later KYCW-LD, now KSPR-LD) switched to virtual channel 33. * ⁴ Owned by Schurz, KGHZ was operated

operated KGHZ under a shared services agreement. From 2007 to 2016, KGHZ (as KSPR) was owned by Perkin Media, LLC. Schurz operated the station under a joint sales agreement.

References

External links

* {{Gannett Companies based in St. Joseph County, Indiana South Bend, Indiana Mass media companies of the United States Gray Television