The ''Glasgow Times'' is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in the city of

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, Scotland. Called ''The Evening Times'' from 1876, it was rebranded as the ''Glasgow Times'' on 4 December 2019.City daily officially drops ‘evening’ from name as part of relaunch
HoldTheFrontPage, 4 December 2019

History

The paper, an evening sister paper of '' The Herald'', was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Nobody Knows Our City Better". Publication of the ''Evening Times'' (and its sister paper) moved to a

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building in Mitchell Street in 1868. The building is now the Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. In 1964, publishers

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were bought by Sir Hugh Fraser. In 1979, the ownership was acquired by

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. On 19 July 1980, the paper moved to offices at 195 Albion Street, a black-fronted building modelled after the ''Black Lubyanka'' building of the Daily Express in London's Fleet Street. The Albion Street building had previously housed the '' Scottish Daily News''

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from May to November 1975. A management buy-out in May 1992 created Caledonian Newspapers, later purchased by

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in 1996. After the purchase the TV group renamed itself "Scottish Media Group", which was later shortened to SMG and, in 2008, rebranded as

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Business

''The Glasgow Times'' and ''The Herald'' are owned by Newsquest (a division of Gannett), which acquired it with the purchase of the publishing arm of the Scottish Media Group in 2003 for £216million. Newsquest also owns the Scottish Jobs website s1jobs.com

Distribution

The newspaper is sold in trademark vendor stalls around Glasgow City Centre, with the salesmen calling out the well-known slogan "Times! Evening Times!" every few minutes. In addition it is delivered to doors around

by paper boys and girls, and is also sold in numerous stores around Greater Glasgow.

Other publications

''The Glasgow Times'' gives its name to an annual pocket-sized

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and Europe.

References

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