Evening Post Industries (founded as Evening Post Publishing Company) is a privately held American media company based in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It has been led by four generations of the Manigault family.
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Newspapers |
| Founded | 1896 |
| Fate | Television stations acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Headquarters | Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., |
Area served | United States (Nationwide) |
Key people | Pierre Manigault, Chairman John Barnwell, President and CEO |
| Subsidiaries | Cordillera Communications (defunct) |
| Website | www |
The company owns The Post and Courier of Charleston, the South's oldest daily newspaper; the Aiken Standard; and five other newspapers in the state. Other holdings include White Oak Forestry Company and the Clear Night Group marketing agency.
History
editThe Evening Post Publishing Company was formed by rice planter Arthur Manigault in 1896 to acquire The Evening Post, Charleston's then-ailing afternoon newspaper.[1][2] Manigault's son Robert became publisher in 1924. Two years later, he bought Charleston's morning paper, The News & Courier,[1] the oldest daily newspaper in the South.
The company launched an international syndication arm, Editors Press Service, in 1933.
When Robert died in 1945, his brother Edward took over; he was in turn succeeded by his son Peter.[1] 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.[3]
The company also owned the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, Latin America's oldest English language newspaper, until 2007.[4][5]
In 2007, the company launched Garden & Gun magazine, which it sold in 2009 to a new firm launched by Pierre Manigault.[6]
In 2013, the company renamed itself Evening Post Industries. In a press release, CEO John Barnwell said, “The name change better reflects our existing diversified holdings and ongoing acquisition strategy in beyond media, while keeping the legacy value of Evening Post."[7]
Broadcast selloff
editIn October 2018, the company agreed to sell its television-broadcasting subsidiary: Cordillera Communications, a holding company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. 15 of Cordillera's 16 stations were purchased by the E. W. Scripps Company;[8] Quincy Media acquiring KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, because Scripps already owned KGUN-TV.[9] The sale was approved by the FCC on April 5, 2019,[10] and completed on May 1.[11]
| Media market | State | Station | Purchased | Sold | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson | Arizona | KVOA | 1993 | 2019 | |
| San Luis Obispo–Santa Barbara | California | KSBY | 2004 | 2019 | |
| Pueblo–Colorado Springs | Colorado | KOAA-TV | 1977 | 2019 | |
| Nampa–Boise | Idaho | KIVI-TV | 1981 | 2002 | |
| Lexington | Kentucky | WLEX-TV | 1999 | 2019 | |
| Lafayette | Louisiana | KATC | 1995 | 2019 | |
| Billings | Montana | KTVQ | 1994 | 2019 | |
| Bozeman | KBZK | 1993 | 2019 | [A] | |
| Butte | KXLF-TV | 1986 | 2019 | ||
| Great Falls | KRTV | 1986 | 2019 | ||
| KTGF-LD | 2015 | 2019 | [B] | ||
| Helena | KXLH-LD | 1995 | 2019 | [C] | |
| KTVH-DT | 2015 | 2019 | |||
| Kalispell | KAJJ-CD | 1988 | 2019 | [D] | |
| Missoula | KPAX-TV | 1986 | 2019 | ||
| Corpus Christi | Texas | KRIS-TV | 1998 | 2019 | |
| KZTV | – | [i] | |||
| K22JA-D | 1998 | 2019 | |||
| El Paso | KDBC-TV | 1974 | 1986 | ||
Properties
editNewspapers
edit- The Post and Courier - Charleston, South Carolina
- The Georgetown Times - Georgetown, South Carolina
- The Kingstree News - Kingstree, South Carolina
- Aiken Standard - Aiken, South Carolina
- Moultrie News - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Summerville Journal-Scene - Summerville, South Carolina
- The Berkeley Independent - Moncks Corner, South Carolina
- Goose Creek Gazette - Goose Creek, South Carolina
- Waccamaw Times - Pawleys Island, South Carolina
- The Star - North Augusta, South Carolina
- Free Times - Columbia, South Carolina
Notes
editReferences
edit- 1 2 3 "Evening Post Industries History," Archived 2018-01-04 at the Wayback Machine Evening Post Industries official website. Accessed Jan. 3, 2018.
- ↑ "Company timeline". Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ↑ "Gardner, Alan. "Atlantic Syndication Combines with Universal Uclick". The Daily Cartoonist. April 7, 2010". Archived from the original on December 15, 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-05. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ (in Spanish) http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=449785 Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Magazine gets new owners | the Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment". Archived from the original on 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ↑ "Evening Post Name Change Signifies Growth and Diversification". Evening Post Industries. August 6, 2013. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ National, Scripps. "The E.W. Scripps Company buys more television stations, bringing total to 51". FOX 47. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ "Cordillera announces sale of stations to Scripps, Quincy". KRISTV.com. 29 October 2018. Archived from the original on 29 October 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ↑ FCC OKs Scripps Purchase of Cordillera Stations Archived 2019-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, Broadcasting & Cable, 5 April 2019, Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ↑ "Scripps Closes Its Acquisition of 15 Television Stations from Cordillera Communications". E. W. Scripps Company. 1 May 2019. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.