Evening Post Industries

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On August 6, 2013, the company changed its name from the Evening Post Publishing Company to Evening Post Industries. In a press release, CEO John Barnwell stated, “The name change better reflects our existing diversified holdings and ongoing acquisition strategy in beyond media, while keeping the legacy value of Evening Post."[1]

In addition to The Post and Courier of Charleston, the South's oldest daily newspaper, the company owns six other newspapers in South Carolina, including the Aiken Standard. Other holdings include White Oak Forestry Company, and a marketing agency, Clear Night Group.

History

The Evening Post Publishing Company was formed by rice planter Arthur Manigault in 1896 to acquire The Evening Post, Charleston's then-ailing afternoon newspaper.[2][3] Manigault's son Robert became publisher in 1924. Two years later, he bought Charleston's morning paper, The News & Courier[2]–the oldest daily newspaper in the South.

The company launched an international syndication arm, Editors Press Service, in 1933.

Robert's brother Edward took over in 1945 after Robert's death; he was in turn succeeded by his son Peter.[2] Peter's son, Pierre, inherited the company upon Peter's death in 2004.

In 2004, the Evening Post Publishing Company sold Editors Press Service to the Universal Press Syndicate, which renamed it Atlantic Syndication.[4]

The company also owned the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, Latin America's oldest English language newspaper, until 2007.[5][6]

On October 29, 2018, Cordillera Communications announced it had entered into a deal with the E. W. Scripps Company for Scripps to purchase all but one TV station, the Tucson, Arizona station, from Cordillera. The deal was expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.[7]

Evening Post Industries Properties

Newspapers

Television stations

Evening Post's broadcasting division was called Cordillera Communications. The licensees had different names (most of which bear the station call letters, current, former (as in the case of KBZK's owners being KCTZ Communications (former call letters), or parent (repeaters only): KOAA (Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Communications) does not, however). Cordillera Communications was a holding company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

On October 29, 2018, it was announced that the E. W. Scripps Company would acquire 15 of the 16 Cordillera stations, with Quincy Media acquiring KVOA due to Scripps already owning KGUN-TV.[8] The sale was approved by the FCC on April 5, 2019.[9] The transaction was completed on May 1.[10]

The following stations, arranged alphabetically by city of license, were owned by Cordillera:

City of license / Market Station Channel Years owned Current status
Billings, MT KTVQ 2 1994–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Bozeman, MT KBZKTemplate:Efn-ua 7 1993–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Butte, MT KXLF-TV 4 1986–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Corpus Christi, TX KRIS-TV 6 1998–2019 NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Corpus Christi, TX KZTV 10 Template:Efn-lr CBS affiliate owned by SagamoreHill BroadcastingTemplate:Efn-lr
Corpus Christi, TX K22JA-D 47 1998–2019 Telemundo affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
El Paso, TX KDBC-TV 4 1974–1986 CBS affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Great Falls, MT KRTV 3 1986–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Great Falls, MT KTGF-LDTemplate:Efn-ua 50 2015–2019 NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Helena, MT KXLH-LDTemplate:Efn-ua 9 1995–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Helena, MT KTVH-DT 12 2015–2019 NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Kalispell, MT KAJJ-CDTemplate:Efn-ua 18 1988–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Lafayette, LA KATC 3 1995–2019 ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Lexington, KY WLEX-TV 18 1999–2019 NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Missoula, MT KPAX-TV 8 1986–2019 CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Nampa–Boise, ID KIVI-TV 6 1981–2002 ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Pueblo–Colorado Springs, CO KOAA-TV 5 1977–2019 NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
San Luis Obispo–Santa Barbara, CA KSBY 6 2004–2019 NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Tucson, AZ KVOA 4 1993–2019 NBC affiliate owned by Allen Media Broadcasting

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ a b c "Evening Post Industries History," Evening Post Industries official website. Accessed Jan. 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ Company timeline
  4. ↑ Gardner, Alan. "Atlantic Syndication Combines with Universal Uclick". The Daily Cartoonist. April 7, 2010.
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  6. ↑ Template:In lang http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=449785 Template:Webarchive
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  9. ↑ FCC OKs Scripps Purchase of Cordillera Stations, Broadcasting & Cable, 5 April 2019, Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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