''The Delaware Wave'' is a
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation.
It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...
-owned English-language newspaper based in
Bethany Beach, Delaware
Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census Bureau figures, the population of the town is 1,060; however, during the summer months some 15,000 more populate the town as vacationers ...
. Seventeen staff members publish the weekly 11-inch by 17-inch newspaper, every Tuesday, and distribute it to the public on Wednesdays. It serves from Bethany Beach and Fenwick Island to Georgetown and Selbyville with local news. Online, it is known as ''Delmarva Now''. Founded in 1999, it is one of three Gannett newspapers in Delaware that together have a circulation of approximately 22,000 per week.
Sections
* News
* Perspective (changed to Voices in March 2008)
* Health Matters (changed to Health in March 2008)
* Education
* Business
* Shorelife
* Our Neighbors
* Faith & Family (Eliminated in December 2008)
* Real Estate (Eliminated in December 2008)
* Sports
* Obituaries (changed to Area Deaths in March 2008)
Towns in coverage area
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Bethany Beach, Delaware
Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census Bureau figures, the population of the town is 1,060; however, during the summer months some 15,000 more populate the town as vacationers ...
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Clarksville, Delaware
Clarksville is an unincorporated community in Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, United States located just west of Millville. It is centered, more or less, along Delaware Route 26. Many tourists from the Baltimore–Washington metro ...
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Dagsboro, Delaware
Dagsboro is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 805 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Dagsboro, incorporated in the early 1900s, is a town ...
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Fenwick Island, Delaware
Fenwick Island is a coastal resort town in Sussex County, Delaware, Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to 2020 census figures, the population of the town is 355, a 2.6% decrease over the last decade. It is part of the Salisbury me ...
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Frankford, Delaware
Frankford is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 847 at the 2010 census, an increase of 18.6% over the previous decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Loc ...
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Georgetown, Delaware
Georgetown is a town in and the county seat of Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population of the town is 6,422, an increase of 38.3% over the previous decade.
Georgetown is pa ...
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Millville, Delaware
Millville is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population in 2020 was 1,825, It is part of the Salisbury metropolitan area, Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area and lies within Ba ...
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Millsboro, Delaware
Millsboro is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Millsboro is part of the Salisbury metropolitan area.
History
Millsboro's earliest European settlers were of English family origin; though most were second generation colonists who ...
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Ocean View, Delaware
Ocean View is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 1,882 at the 2010 census, an increase of 87.1% over the previous decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area and lies i ...
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Omar, Delaware
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Roxana, Delaware
Roxana is an unincorporated community and former municipality, from 1909 to 1921, in southeastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It is roughly centered on the intersection of Delaware Route 20 and Delaware Route 17. It is part of the ...
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Selbyville, Delaware
Selbyville is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Its population was 2,167 at the 2010 census, an increase of 31.7% over the previous decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
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South Bethany, Delaware
South Bethany is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 449, a decrease of 8.7% over the previous decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metrop ...
Schools in coverage area
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Indian River School District
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Sussex Technical School District
Affiliations
As part of the Delmarva Media Group, ''The Delaware Wave'' is one of many weekly newspapers that works in conjunction with ''
The Daily Times ''Daily Times'' may refer to the following national newspapers:
* Daily Times (Nigeria), ''Daily Times'' (Nigeria), newspaper published in Nigeria
* Daily Times (Pakistan), ''Daily Times'' (Pakistan), newspaper published in Pakistan
''The Daily Tim ...
'' in
Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. Salisbury is the largest city in Eastern Shore of Maryland, the state's Eastern Shore region, with a population of 33,050 at the 2020 United States census ...
.
Other Delmarva Media Group publications include:
* ''The Delaware Coast Press
* ''The Chincoteague Beacon
* ''The Delaware-Maryland Beachcomber''
* ''The Eastern Shore News
* ''The Ocean Pines Independent
* ''The Worcester County Times
* ''The Somerset Herald
* ''The Virginia Beachcomber''
* ''Go! Magazine''
* ''Shorewoman''
The Delaware Wave was acquired by Gannett Media Company in 2000 and is now affiliated with the USA Today Network.
The other Gannett newspapers in Delaware are ''The Delaware Coast Press'' and Wilmington's ''
The News Journal
''The News Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Wilmington, Delaware. It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near New Castle, and is owned by Gannett.
History
The ancestry of the News Journal reflects the mergers of ...
''.
References
External links
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delmarvanow.com
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Newspapers published in Delaware
Sussex County, Delaware
1999 establishments in Delaware
Newspapers established in 1999
Bethany Beach, Delaware
Gannett publications