The Altus Times is a two-day a week newspaper based in

Altus, Oklahoma Altus () is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 19,813 at the 2010 census, a loss of 7.7 percent compared to 21,454 in 2000. Altus is home to Altus Air Force Base, the United States Air ...

and owned by

Graystone Media Group The Graystone Ballroom was a dance hall located at 4237 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Billed as "Detroit's Million Dollar Ballroom", it opened its doors on March 7, 1922 with a floorplan designed to hold 3,000 people, making ...

. It is published Wednesday and Saturday.

History

The original ''Altus Times'' was founded as a weekly newspaper by J. Ed Van Meter in December, 1901.Altus Times Boasts Colorful History
, ''Altus Times'' (accessed February 15, 2010). It was consolidated with two other newspapers into the Weekly Altus Times-Democrat around 1916. It began daily publication in 1928. The newspaper was renamed the ''Altus Times'' on August 1, 1984. The paper was previously owned by

Heartland Publications Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...

. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland,

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily newspaper, daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton, Ohio, Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelp ...

, former Freedom papers it had acquired, and

Impressions Media {{Infobox company , name = Impressions Media , logo = , type = Private , foundation = {{start date, 1939, as Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company , location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1 ...

into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, O ...

. Civitas Media sold its Oklahoma papers to Greystone Media Group in 2017.

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* {{Oklahoma-newspaper-stub Newspapers published in Oklahoma