Seattle Times: chronology
Chronology
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
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- beginnings (1863)
- Hearst buys Post-Intelligencer (1921)
- the television age (1954)
- JOA (1983)
- Guy Gannett takeover (1998)
Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline.
Beginnings
1863 Seattle Gazette founded by James Watson
1867 Samuel Maxwell buys Gazette, renamed Intelligencer
1881 Intelligencer merges with merger with Seattle Post as Post-Intelligencer
1888 Comfort magazine launched by William Gannett, father of Guy Gannett
1896 Alden Blethen buys Seattle Times
1899 weekly Yakima Republic purchased by Robertson family
1905 Yakima Herald established as daily newspaper by Robertsons
1921 Guy Gannett buys Waterville Morning Sentinel, Portland Daily Press and Portland Herald
1921 combines Portland papers as Portland Press Herald
Hearst buys Post-Intelligencer
1921 Hearst buys Seattle Post-Intelligencer
1925 Guy Gannett buys Portland Evening Express, Daily Advertiser and Sunday Telegram for US$0.55m
1925 merges Advertiser with Evening Express, Sunday Telegram with Portland Press Herald Sunday edition
1927 Gannett and associates form Financial Institutions Inc bank holding company
1929 buys Kennebec Journal
1929 Ridder buys 49.5% voting stake in Seattle Times
1931 Financial Institutions Inc goes into receivership
1934 Comfort magazine ceases
1938 Gannett launches WGAN radio station
1938 closure of Portland Evening News
1948 William Gannett dies at age 94
1954 Guy Gannett dies at age 72
The television age
1954 Gannett family launches television station WGAN (later WGME)
1967 Guy Gannett Publishing begins buying out-of-state tv and radio stations
1968 Portland Sunday Telegram renamed Maine Sunday Telegram
1968 Yakima Herald and Republic merge as Herald-Republic with morning and afternoon editions.
1972 Harte-Hanks buys Yakima Herald-Republic
1981 Yakima Herald-Republic becomes morning-only paper
1983 Guy Gannett sells WGAN radio
1983 WGAN-TV renamed WGME-TV
JOA
1983 Joint Operating Agreement between Seattle Times and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer under federal Newspaper Preservation Act comes into effect
1984 Gannett Tower Co is established in Miami
1985 Gannett launches biweekly MaineSay
1986 Garden State Newspapers buys Yakima Herald-Republic
1987 Gannett buys Minnesota Suburban Newspapers and Post Publications
1991 Evening Express ceases publication
1992 Seattle Times Co buys Yakima Herald-Republic
1993 Guy Gannett Publishing Co changes name to Guy Gannett Communications
1994 buys WICD Champaign
Guy Gannett takeover
1998 Guy Gannett Communications Maine newspapers sold to The Seattle Times Co for US$200m
1998 Sinclair buys WICD Champaign, WGME-TV Portland, WGGB-TV Springfield, KGAN-TV Cedar Rapids, WTWC-TV Tallahassee and WOKR-TV Rochester