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Logan Banner
''The Logan Banner'', originally named the Logan County Banner, is a newspaper in Logan, West Virginia owned by HD Media, LLC, parent company of ''The Herald-Dispatch'' in Huntington. Circulation is limited to Logan County and surrounding areas. The newspaper was founded in 1889, by Henry Clay Ragland, a veteran of the Confederate army, as a weekly paper. Over the years, it has had different publication schedules. In 1935, it became a Monday-Friday afternoon paper. In 1981 it adopted an unusual schedule of publishing Tuesday-Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings. In September 2018, under the ownership of HD Media, the paper was reduced to a tri-weekly schedule of publishing Sunday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. In July 2019, the publication schedule was once again reduced to a weekly. HD Media also adopted the same weekly schedule for the Banner's sister paper, the Williamson Daily News. It was previously owned by Heartland Publications. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HD Media
HD Media Co., LLC is a Huntington, West Virginia, based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. It was established by Doug Reynolds in 2013 to purchase the Herald-Dispatch from Champion Industries. Newspapers ''The Herald-Dispatch'' In 2013, HD Media purchased ''The Herald-Dispatch'' from Champion Industries. ''The Herald-Dispatch'' was founded in 1909 when two Huntington newspapers, the ''Herald'' and the ''Dispatch'', merged. In 1927, the newspaper became a part of the Huntington Publishing Company, operated by Joseph Harvey Long, the owner of the ''Huntington Advertiser''. The company was operated by the Long family until 1971, when it was sold to the ''Honolulu Star Bulletin'' and then to the Gannett Company ten months later. Its companion afternoon paper, the ''Huntington Advertiser'', ceased as a separate publication in 1979. Prior to the ''Huntington Advertiser''’s demise, the combined Sunday newspaper was referred to as the ''Herald-Advertiser'', corr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |