The ''Tampa Times'', or ''Tampa Daily Times'', was a daily newspaper founded in

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, in 1893. It was started by the consolidation of two newspapers by the Tampa Publishing Company, whose vice president was W. B. Henderson, a leading businessperson in Tampa. D.B. McKay was the publisher. The newspaper was an early leader in broadcasting, first putting WDAE 1250 AM on the air in 1922 (now on

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). Then in 1947, an FM station was added, WDAE-FM 105.7 (now WMTX 100.7 FM). Also in the late 1940s, the company applied for a broadcast television station license and was denied. In 1952, the ''Tampa Times'' was acquired by its rival daily newspaper, the ''

Tampa Tribune ''The Tampa Tribune'' was a daily newspaper published in Tampa, Florida. Along with the competing ''Tampa Bay Times'', the ''Tampa Tribune'' was one of two major newspapers published in the Tampa Bay area. The newspaper also published a ''St. P ...

'', which had a television station. The ''Tampa Tribune'' continued printing the ''Tampa Times'' for a number of decades, maintaining the "Times" moniker in competition with the '' St. Petersburg Times'', another newspaper in the

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. After the ''Tampa Tribune'' stopped publishing its ''Tampa Times'' edition in 1982, it continued to hold the rights on the name, leading to a lawsuit filed by

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, owner of the ''Tampa Tribune'', against the ''St. Petersburg Times''. The two companies reached an agreement in 2006, by which the Media General keep its exclusive right to use of ''Tampa Times'' for another five years; the window expired in 2011, and on January 1, 2012, the ''St. Petersburg Times'' was renamed the ''

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''. In 2016, the ''Tampa Bay Times'' bought the ''Tampa Tribune'', effectively consolidating the history of the original 1893 ''Tampa Times'' into its present-day namesake.

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