Tampa Times

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The Tampa Times
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Tampa Publishing Company
Founded1893;129 years ago (1893)
Ceased publication1982 (1982)

The Tampa Times, or Tampa Daily Times, was a daily newspaper founded in Tampa, Florida, in 1893. It was started by the consolidation of two newspapers by the Tampa Publishing Company, whose vice president was W. B. Henderson, a leading businessperson in Tampa. D.B. McKay was the publisher. [1]

The newspaper was an early leader in broadcasting, first putting WDAE 1250 AM on the air in 1922 (now on 620 AM). [2] Then in 1947, an FM station was added, WDAE-FM 105.7 (now WMTX 100.7 FM). Also in the late 1940s, the company applied for a broadcast television station license and was denied.

In 1952, the Tampa Times was acquired by its rival daily newspaper, the Tampa Tribune , which had a television station. [3] [4]

The Tampa Tribune continued printing the Tampa Times for a number of decades, [3] maintaining the "Times" moniker in competition with the St. Petersburg Times , another newspaper in the Tampa Bay area.

After the Tampa Tribune stopped publishing its Tampa Times edition in 1982, it continued to hold the rights on the name, leading to a lawsuit filed by Media General, owner of the Tampa Tribune, against the St. Petersburg Times. [5] The two companies reached an agreement in 2006, by which the Media General keep its exclusive right to use of Tampa Times for another five years; the window expired in 2011, and on January 1, 2012, the St. Petersburg Times was renamed the Tampa Bay Times . [5]

In 2016, the Tampa Bay Times bought the Tampa Tribune, effectively consolidating the history of the original 1893 Tampa Times into its present-day namesake. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Tampa daily times". Library of Congress.
  2. ↑ Information from Broadcasting Yearbook 1950 page 115
  3. 1 2 Solomon, Josh (2018-04-04). "50 years: A newspaper history of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  4. ↑ Monopoly, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust and (5 January 1968). "The Failing Newspaper Act: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s], on S. 1312 ..." U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 Deggans, Eric (2011-10-31). "The St. Petersburg Times will become the Tampa Bay Times on Jan. 1". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  6. ↑ Yu, Roger (2016-05-03). "'Tampa Bay Times' buys, shuts down rival 'Tampa Tribune'". USA Today . Retrieved 2020-08-28.


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