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Tindle
The Tindle Group is a British multimedia company operating regional newspapers and radio stations across the British Isles. It publishes over 200 local newspapers in the UK, a number of which are over 100 years old. The company is based in Farnham, Surrey, under CEO Danny Cammiade. It is owned by the Tindle family. Founder Sir Ray Tindle was a "strong believer in 'ultra-local' journalism", a culture which the company still follows today. He remained the company's president until his death in 2022. His son, Owen Tindle, took over as chairman in 2017. Newspapers The Tindle newspaper empire started out in the 1950s, when Sir Ray acquired the ''Tooting & Balham Gazette'' with his £300 Demobilization, demob payment after his time serving during the Second World War. At the company's peak, Tindle Newspapers owned and operated more than 220 local titles. The following is a partial list of newspapers owned by the company: *''Abergavenny Chronicle'' *''Admart'' *''Alton Post Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Tindle
Sir Raymond Stanley Tindle (8 October 1926 – 16 April 2022) was a British newspaper and radio entrepreneur. He founded the Tindle Group of regional newspapers and radio stations. Early life After leaving school he went on to enlist in the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, an infantry regiment in the British Army. He saw service in the Far East between 1944 and 1947, rising to the rank of captain. After wartime service he bought his first newspaper, the '' Tooting & Balham Gazette'' with his £250 demob payment. Career Tindle continued acquiring newspapers over the decades that followed, operating them as local titles. At its peak, the Tindle Group owned more than 220 publications. Tindle Newspapers Ltd now owns local papers and radio stations covering large parts of Wales, Surrey, Hampshire, Essex, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, Ireland, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man. Tindle attributed a great deal of the company's success to the fact it had always remained debt fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tindle Radio
Tindle Radio is a media company which owns commercial stations in the Channel Islands and the Republic of Ireland. It has its head office in Farnham, Surrey, shared with Tindle Newspapers. History Sir Ray Tindle acquired Island FM in Guernsey in February 1998, the first station of what was to become Tindle Radio Group. The business grew to own a dozen stations, mostly located in the South and Southeast of England. Between 2007 and 2010 four stations were sold, with the final five of the UK stations offloaded in 2013 through a management buyout, forming Anglian Radio. Tindle's last station launch in England was for Ipswich, but sold interests in new licences in Andover and Southend before they began broadcasting. After the UK stations separated, Tindle's radio division re-organised as 'Tindle CI Broadcasting', retaining its stations in the Channel Islands and Ireland. It remains part of the larger Tindle Group. The company launched its first digital station, Soleil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 103
Channel 103 is an independent local radio station broadcasting to the island of Jersey on 103.7 FM and DAB+ digital radio. The station launched on 25 October 1992. Channel 103 is part of Tindle Radio, which also owns Island FM in Guernsey and Midlands 103 in Ireland. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 52,000 and a 29.1% market share as of December 2022 - the highest of any local radio station in the British Isles. In late 2020, Channel 103 became a part of Bauer's Hits Radio Network for commercial sales. It remains owned by Tindle with no shared programming. Programming Channel 103's core audience is the 25-44 age group, playing contemporary hits - predominantly from the early 1990s to the present day. News bulletins are presented locally from 6:30am until 6pm, Monday to Friday. The station's weekend news service broadcasts local content, presented either from Jersey or Guernsey from 8am until noon. Sky News provides the service outside these times. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island FM
Island FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting across the Bailiwick of Guernsey on 104.7FM and 93.7FM in Alderney. Launched in 1992, Island FM remains the sole commercial station in the island and continues to be extremely successful with high listenership figures. Listening figures under a 2018 RAJAR survey showed that out of a population of 53,000 adults, 31,000 listened each week, at an average of 11.6 hours per person giving a 37% market share. As of September 2022, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 25,000 with a listening share of 26.1%, according to RAJAR. History Island FM was founded by Guernsey businessman Kevin Stewart, who was the station's Managing Director until 2002. In February 1998, Sir Ray Tindle acquired Island FM and the station became the first part of the Tindle Radio Group, which later went on to purchase Jersey's Channel 103 In late 2020, Island FM became a part of Bauer's Hits Radio Network for commercial sales. It remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambrian News
The ''Cambrian News'' is a weekly newspaper distributed in Wales. It was founded in 1860 and is based in Cefn Llan Science Park, Aberystwyth. Cambrian News Ltd was bought by media entrepreneur Sir Ray Tindle in 1998. History The paper was first published in Bala in October 1860, as a four-page supplement, ''The Merioneth Herald'', in ''The Oswestry Advertiser''. Having subsequently become a distinct paper printed in Oswestry, England, in 1864 it became the ''Merionethshire Standard and Mid-Wales Herald''The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard at Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales and, in 1869, was renamed ''The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard.'' In 1870 it was bought by Sir [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woking News And Mail
The ''Woking News and Mail'' (incorporating the ''Woking Review'') is a weekly local paper, which is published in the Surrey village of Knaphill in Woking. The newspaper is published every Thursday and principally covers Woking and the villages of Horsell, Chobham, Knaphill Kingfield, Brookwood, Old Woking, West Byfleet, SheerwaterSutton Green Woodham and Bisley. History The first copy of the ''Woking News and Mail'' was published in 1894. It ran for 117 years, before the Guardian Media Group Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British-based mass media company owning various media operations including ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer''. The group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and e ... decided to cease publishing the print edition in March 2011. However, the Warm Welcome Group, owned by ex-Guardian and Woking News & Mail employee Philip Davies, secured the rights to publish the paper in May 2011, and it has maintained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington Weekly News
The ''Wellington Weekly News'' is a weekly newspaper in Wellington, Somerset, England. It was founded as ''Corner's Wellington Weekly News'' on 15 November 1860, the same day as the ''Wellington Times'', two of 15 newspapers founded that year in Wellington. Founder Richard Corner owned a printing works on South Street. In 1872, the ''Weekly News'' absorbed the ''Times''. Corner retired in 1876, when the paper was purchased by G. Bellamy and F. Whitty. In 1880, ''Corner's'' was dropped from the title. It is owned by the Tindle Group, which bought it in 2006 from Northcliffe Newspapers Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites. It was formed in 2012 by David Montgomery, a former chief executive of Trinity Mirror, to buy the Dai .... References External links * Newspapers published in Somerset Wellington, Somerset 1860 establishments in England {{England-newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenby Observer
The ''Tenby Observer'' is a weekly English language newspaper, published each Friday, which circulates around Tenby, South Pembrokeshire, and amongst tourists generally. The ’paper started as a list of the town's influential and well-to-do visitors but soon added news, mostly local, and adverts which traditionally adorned the front page. It was published by Richard Mason from 1853 to 1860. In 1907 The ‘Tenby Observer’ became a pioneer of press freedom when the then editor, Frank B. Mason (founder of the Tenby estate agents now known as fbm) protested through the law courts his being excluded from a Tenby Borough Council meeting. He lost the case, highlighting a deficiency in British law. As a result, the Admission of the Press Act was passed in 1908. Thanks to the dedication of its staff, even in lean times, the ‘Tenby Observer’ has never missed an issue. In 1978 the ’paper, which was being printed under the title ‘West Wales Weekly Observer’ was saved from having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chew Valley Gazette
The Chew Valley and Wrington Vale Gazette is a monthly local newspaper for the Chew Valley and surrounding areas of north Somerset, England. It was previously published as the Chew Valley Digest. The first issue of the Digest was published in April 1984 and the last issue was printed in January 1989, to be replaced by the Gazette, which published its first issue in February 1989. The paper's offices are in Chew Magna. It is distributed free to local residents and available on subscription to others. It also publishes the annual Chew Valley Green Pages. In December 2011 the title was sold by Northcliffe Media, the owners of the Bristol Evening Post to the Tindle Newspaper Group The Tindle Group is a British multimedia company operating regional newspapers and radio stations across the British Isles. It publishes over 200 local newspapers in the UK, a number of which are over 100 years old. The company is based in F .... References External links Chew Valley Gazette N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monmouthshire Beacon
The ''Monmouthshire Beacon'' is a weekly tabloid newspaper covering the areas of Monmouthshire, south Herefordshire and western Gloucestershire. It has been in continuous publication since 1837. Since 1980 the newspaper has been part of the Tindle Newspaper Group of local newspapers owned by Farnham Castle Newspapers and chaired by Sir Ray Tindle (1926-2022).Monmouthshire Beacon British Newspapers Online, accessed 20 January 2012 The newspaper's editorial office is at Cornwall House, Monnow Street, . The ''Beacon'' is published every Wednesday. Its sister paper, the '' |
Cornish & Devon Post
The Cornish & Devon Post is a weekly newspaper, published in Launceston, Cornwall, England, which was launched in 1856. It was one of the last newspapers in the UK to carry advertisements, rather than news on the front page. It is owned by the Tindle Newspaper Group since 1986. It covers the main towns of Launceston, Bude, Holsworthy and Camelford Camelford ( kw, Reskammel) is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles (16 km) north of Bodmin and is governed ... and the area of northwest Devon and northeast Cornwall. In April 2020, after 164 years, the paper made the switch from broadsheet to tabloid, with news appearing on the front page for the first time. References External links ''Cornish & Devon Post'' website Newspapers published in Cornwall Newspapers established in 1856 1856 establishments in England Newspapers published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Man Newspapers
Isle of Man Newspapers publishes the Isle of Man's newspapers. They are the ''Isle of Man Examiner'', the ''Isle of Man Courier'' and the ''Manx Independent''. They are all weekly newspapers. Its website is www.iomtoday.co.im, as well as owning GEF.im. The company was formerly called the Isle of Man Courier Group until its name was changed in 1992. It was owned by the Halifax Courier group until that was bought out by Johnston Press in 1994. It has been based at Publishing House, Peel Road, Douglas Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals * Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civi ... and was purchased by Tindle Newspapers in 2016 for 4.1M. In 2022 the company left Peel Road, moving in to 18, Finch Road, Douglas. Controversies The Isle of Man Newspapers has received criticism from the public for its court report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
