Ottaway Community Newspapers
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Ottaway Community Newspapers (formerly Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.) is a subsidiary of the News Corporation and owns newspapers in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Campbell Hall, New York.
The Ottaway organization was founded in November 1936, when James H. Ottaway, Sr., purchased the Endicott, N.Y., Bulletin, a semi-weekly paper he converted to a daily within a year. Ottaway added the Oneonta Star in 1944, followed two years later by the Pocono Record. In 1970, his company totaled nine newspapers across the northeastern United States when it merged with Dow Jones.[1]
Ottaway has sold several newspapers in recent years, however, most recently in December 2006, when the company dealt nearly half its daily newspapers to Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) for $287.9 million (including real estate).[2]
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[edit] Ottaway's Newspapers
After the CNHI sale, Ottaway retained eight daily and 15 weekly newspapers in seven U.S. states. Ottaway's circulation was given as 282,000 daily, 316,000 Sunday and 119,000 daily unique visitors on newspaper Internet sites.[3]
Ottaway's daily newspapers are:
- The Ashland Daily Tidings of Ashland, Oregon
- Cape Cod Times of Barnstable, Massachusetts
- The Mail Tribune of Medford, Oregon
- The Pocono Record of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
- The Portsmouth Herald of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- The Record of Stockton, California
- The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts
- The Times Herald-Record of Middletown, New York
Ottaway weekly and twice-weekly newspapers include the following:
- The Barnstable Patriot of Barnstable, Massachusetts
- The Inquirer & Mirror of Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Hathaway Publishing, published alongside The Standard-Times:
- Seacoast Media Group, published alongside The Portsmouth Herald:
- The Dover Community News of Dover, New Hampshire
- The Exeter News-Letter of Exeter, New Hampshire (twice-weekly)
- The Hampton Union of Hampton, New Hampshire (twice-weekly)
- The Rockingham News of Kingston, New Hampshire
- The York County Coast Star of Kennebunk, Maine
- The York Weekly of York, Maine
[edit] Former Newspapers
Until December 2006, the following dailies and weeklies were also part of the Ottaway chain. They are all now part of CNHI.[4]
- Santa Cruz Sentinel daily of Santa Cruz, California
- The News-Times daily of Danbury, Connecticut
- The Spectrum weekly of Milford, Connecticut
- The Record-Eagle daily of Traverse City, Michigan
- The Grand Traverse Herald weekly of Traverse City, Michigan
- The Cooperstown Crier weekly of Cooperstown, New York
- The Daily Star of Oneonta, New York
- The Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, New York
- The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pennsylvania
- The Danville News weekly of Danville, Pennsylvania
The following four daily newspapers were sold by Ottaway to CNHI for $182 million in 2002:[5]
- The Daily Independent of Ashland, Kentucky
- The Free Press of Mankato, Minnesota
- The Herald of Sharon, Pennsylvania
- The Joplin Globe of Joplin, Missouri
Also, Ottaway sold the three daily newspapers of Essex County Newspapers Inc. to The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, Massachusetts, in 2002, for $70 million.[6] The Eagle-Tribune, along with the Essex papers listed below, was later purchased by CNHI.
- Daily News of Newburyport of Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Gloucester Daily Times of Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Salem Evening News of Salem, Massachusetts
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ DowJones.com Community Media, accessed January 8, 2007.
- ^ "Dow Jones Completes Sale of Six Local Newspapers." Dow Jones & Company press release, December 5, 2006.
- ^ "Dow Jones Completes Sale of Six Local Newspapers."
- ^ "Dow Jones Completes Sale of Six Local Newspapers."
- ^ Dow Jones To Sell Four Ottaway Newspapers, accessed January 8, 2007.
- ^ "Bay State Paper Gets to Grow in Its Own Backyard". NewsInc, April 22, 2002. Accessed January 8, 2006.
