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

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated pop ...

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

George Outram George Outram (25 March 1805 – 15 September 1856) was a humorous poet, Scottish advocate, friend of Professor John Wilson, and for some time editor of '' The Herald'' in Glasgow. Life Outram was born on 25 March 1805 the son of Elizabeth Kno ...

were bought by Sir Hugh Fraser. In 1979, the ownership was acquired by Tiny Rowland's Lonrho. 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 Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was n ...

. The Albion Street building had previously housed the ''

Scottish Daily News The ''Scottish Daily News'' (''SDN'') was a left-of-centre daily newspaper published in Glasgow between 5 May and 8 November 1975. It was hailed as Britain's first worker-controlled, mass-circulation daily, formed as a workers' cooperative by 500 ...

'' workers' cooperative 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 STV Group plc.

Business

''The Glasgow Times'' and ''The Herald'' are owned by

Newsquest Newsquest Media Group Ltd. is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the American mass media holding company Gannett. It has 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print ...

(a division of Gannett), which acquired it with the purchase of the publishing arm of the Scottish Media Group in 2003 for £216million.

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 Scottish football publication called the '' Wee Red Book'', which contains both the following season's fixtures in Scotland's four senior divisions and lists of previous league and cup winners from Scotland,

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and Europe.

References

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