Robert M. Hall (September 27, 1909 – December 21, 1998) was an American media executive, founder of

Publishers-Hall Syndicate Publishers-Hall Syndicate was a newspaper syndicate founded by Robert M. Hall in 1944. Hall served as the company's president and general manager. Over the course of its operations, the company was known as, sequentially, the Hall Syndicate (1944 ...

and later

Hall Communications Hall Communications, Inc. is a broadcasting company based in Lakeland, Florida. The company currently owns 17 radio stations in Polk County, Florida; eastern Connecticut; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Burlington, Vermont. History The company w ...

. Born and raised in

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

, Hall graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1934 and from

Columbia School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism sc ...

in 1936. After working as a salesman for

United Features Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...

, he formed the Post Syndicate with the ''

New York Post The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com. It was established ...

'' in 1944, soon renamed Post-Hall Syndicate. In 1955 he bought out the ''Post'' and renamed it Hall Syndicate. In 1964, Hall bought his first radio station in Connecticut, and in 1967 he sold Hall Syndicate to

Field Enterprises Field Enterprises, Inc. was a private holding company that operated from the 1940s to the 1980s, founded by Marshall Field III and others, whose main assets were the ''Chicago Sun'' and ''Parade'' magazine. For various periods of time, Field Enter ...

of Chicago. In the ensuing years he formed

and purchased numerous radio stations throughout the eastern United States. He resigned as president in 1991 and chair in 1998, turning the company over to his daughter Bonnie Hall Rowbotham and her husband Art.

External links

Robert M. Hall biography
via radioyears.com
Hall Communications website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Robert M. 1909 births 1998 deaths Brown University alumni Businesspeople from Providence, Rhode Island 20th-century American businesspeople