AP and UP history
This chronology is indicative only. Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline.
Beginnings
1848 Associated Press (AP) established on informal basis by New York newspapers
1849 Daniel Craig established first AP foreign bureau in Halifax, Nova Scotia
1875 first US permanent leased news wire
1900 Associated Press incorporated as not-for-profit cooperative
1902 AP cable service started to meet requests from Cuba, the Philippines and Central America
1919 full-scale service to Latin America started
1927 news picture service launched
1933 exchange with Japanese news agency Ringgo
1935 AP WirePhoto network launched
1941 establishes AP broadcast wire service
1946 first sports news agency wire service established
1974 launch of AP Radio Network
Television
1979 APTV newswire for television stations launched
1980 AP Radio becomes first radio network to be delivered via satellite
1984 AP becomes first news service to own a satellite transponder
1994 launch of APTV international video news service based in London
1998 APTV becomes APTN — Associated Press Television News — when AP buys WTN video agency from US ABC, ITN and Packer's Nine Network
1994 AP launches AP All News Radio, a 24-hour-a-day fully packaged radio newscast
1996 APTV and Trans World International (TWI) establish SNTV sports news video agency