WEHCO Media, Inc., based in Little Rock, AR is a privately held media company with holdings that include

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systems, and

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service.

Walter E. Hussman, Jr. Walter Edward Hussman Jr. (born January 5, 1947), is an American newspaper publisher and chairman of WEHCO Media, Inc. He is the publisher of the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' in Little Rock, which is the largest newspaper in Arkansas. Hussman dire ...

(born 1947), is the president. Hussmann is the grandson of Clyde E. Palmer, whose media holdings formed the basis of WEHCO Media. WEHCO is an acronym for Walter E. Hussman Company. The company publishes 10 daily newspapers serving three states, as well as eight English-language nondaily newspapers and two Spanish-language publications. They include the ''

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell. It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties. By virtue of one of ...

'', the ''

Texarkana Gazette The ''Texarkana Gazette'' is a daily newspaper founded in 1875 and currently owned by WEHCO Media, Inc. It serves a nine-county area surrounding Texarkana. History The newspaper was acquired through the consolidation of several newspapers in ...

'', and the ''

Chattanooga Times Free Press The ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It is one of Tennessee's majo ...

''. Among the smaller papers in

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are the ''

Hot Springs Sentinel-Record The Hot Springs Sentinel-Record is a newspaper in Hot Springs, Arkansas Hot Springs is a resort city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The city is located in the Ouachita Mountains among the U.S. Interior Highl ...

'', '' The Camden News'', the ''Magnolia Banner-News'', and the ''El Dorado News-Times''. The company also operates cable television systems in Arkansas under the WEHCO Video division - Pine Bluff Cable TV in Pine Bluff, Resort TV Cable in Hot Springs, Cam-Tel Company in Camden, Hope Community TV in Hope, Prescott Video in Prescott, White County Video in Searcy, Augusta Video in Augusta (Woodruff County) and East Arkansas Video in Forrest City. In Texas - Longview Cable TV in Longview and Kilgore Video in Kilgore. Also, WEHCO Video holdings include Vicksburg Video in Vicksburg, MS and Tahlequah Cable TV in Tahlequah, OK. In years past, the company held several radio stations and a TV station. They included KCMC-AM (Texarkana, TX),

KTAL-FM KTAL-FM (98.1 MHz, "98 Rocks") is a classic rock music radio station licensed to Texarkana, Texas, with studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC Debtor in Possession. Its studios ...

98.1 (Texarkana, TX - Shreveport, LA),

KTAL-TV KTAL-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Texarkana, Texas, United States, serving the Shreveport, Louisiana area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV (channel 45); Nexs ...

(NBC) Channel 6 (Texarkana, TX - Shreveport, LA). KCMC and KTAL-TV and FM continue to operate under different owners today. WEHCO Media also owned KAMD-910 AM and KWEH-97.1 FM in Camden, AR. KWEH stood for the owners initials Walter E. Hussman). KAMD ceased broadcasting on August 31, 1995, and KWEH-FM is now known as KAMD-FM, owned by Radio Works Inc. and Jay W. Bunyard. In March 2008, WEHCO announced its purchase of three papers in Missouri: the ''

Jefferson City News Tribune The ''Jefferson City News Tribune'', also known as the ''News Tribune'', is an American daily newspaper published in Jefferson City, Missouri Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, is the capital of Missouri, United States. It had a population ...

'', the ''Fulton Sun'' (both dailies) and the ''

California Democrat The ''California Democrat'' is an American weekly newspaper published in California, Missouri California is a city in and the county seat of Moniteau County, Missouri, United States. The 2010 census has the population at 4,278. California i ...

'' (a weekly). In 2009, WEHCO merged its Northwest Arkansas media interests with Stephens Media to form the joint venture Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. WEHCO acquired Stephens' half in 2016. In August 2010, WEHCO and

Righthaven Righthaven LLC was a copyright enforcement company founded in early 2010. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada; it entered agreements from its partner newspapers after finding that their content had been copied to online sites without permission, in order to ...

LLC (a Las Vegas, Nevada based law firm) joined into an agreement for Righthaven to sue

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on WEHCO's behalf for copyright violations."Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation"
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