Calkins Media, Inc. was a media company established in 1937. It included daily newspapers and digital sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a weekly newspaper in South Miami-Dade County, and broadcast stations located in Huntsville, Tallahassee and Sarasota. Corporate and digital headquarters were located in Bucks County.
In 2016, Raycom Media agreed to purchase Calkins Media's three television stations. A sale of WAAY-TV to Raycom affiliate American Spirit Media was blocked by the Department of Justice due to Raycom's ownership of WAFF. Raycom closed on the purchase of WWSB and WTXL-TV on May 1, 2017, while WAAY-TV was instead sold to Heartland Media.[1]
In 2017, GateHouse Media and Ogden Newspapers agreed to terms to purchase Calkins Media's newspaper assets.[2][3]
Former assets
Newspapers
- The Beaver County Times - (now owned by Gannett)
- Bucks County Courier Times - (PA)[4] - (now owned by Gannett)
- Burlington County Times (NJ) - (now owned by Gannett)
- Ellwood City Ledger - (now owned by Gannett)
- Greene County Messenger - (now owned by Ogden Newspapers)
- (Uniontown, PA) The Herald-Standard - (now owned by Ogden Newspapers)
- South Dade News Leader - (now owned by South Dade News, Inc.)
- The Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) - (now owned by Gannett)
Television stations
References
- Staff. Raycom Closes On WWSB And WTXL TV News Check, 2017-05-01, retrieved 2023-04-24^
- Staff. GateHouse Media agrees to buy Courier Times, other Calkins properties Buck County Courier Times, 19 June 2017, retrieved 24 June 2017^
- D. B. Hebbard. Calkins Media sells its newspaper properties to Ogden Newspapers and GateHouse Media