''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
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 Publications,
Ohio Community Media, the former
Freedom
Freedom is understood as either having the ability to act or change without constraint or to possess the power and resources to fulfill one's purposes unhindered. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving on ...
papers it had acquired, and
Impressions Media
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into a new company,
Civitas Media. In 2017, Civitas sold its West Virginia properties to HD Media.
Popular references
The Logan Banner appeared in several scenes of the 2012 hit TV miniseries titled
Hatfields & McCoys starring
Kevin Costner. The newspaper was known as the Logan County Banner at the time of the
Hatfield-McCoy Feud, yet the TV program showed it incorrectly as the Logan Banner.
References
Newspapers published in West Virginia
1889 establishments in West Virginia
Publications established in 1889
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