The ''Olean Times Herald'' is a daily newspaper serving the western
Twin Tiers
The Twin Tiers are the collective counties that lie on the New York-Pennsylvania border on either side of the 42nd parallel north. The region is predominantly rural and contains many small towns.
Separately, the two halves of the Twin Tiers regi ...
region, based in
Olean, New York. The afternoon newspaper, one of the few remaining afternoon papers in the nation, is published by Bradford Publishing and is published six days each week - Monday thru Friday, with a special “Weekend Edition” delivered on Saturday mornings. It does not publish on Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. It is the flagship of Bradford Publishing's newspaper stable, which includes
The Bradford Era (a morning newspaper that mostly serves Pennsylvania), the
Salamanca Press
The ''Salamanca Press'' is a newspaper serving Cattaraugus County, New York. Based in the city of Salamanca, the paper is owned by Bradford Publishing, which also publishes the Bradford Era and the Olean Times Herald. The newspaper focuses on the ...
(a weekly paper serving Central and Western Cattaraugus County), the Ellicottville Times (a free weekly), and the Fredonia, Gowanda/Silver Creek and Salamanca
Pennysavers.
The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to fo ...
acquired the ''Olean Times Herald'' in 1988; they sold the paper, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later
Hollinger International
Sun-Times Media Group (formerly Hollinger International) is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher.
History
Sun-Times Media Group was founded in 1986 under the name ''American Publishing Company'', as a holding company for Hollinger Inc.'s Americ ...
) in 1995. Hollinger sold off most of its small papers in 1999, the ''Olean Times Herald'' went to Bradford Publishing. Bradford Publishing Co. is now owned by Community Media Group.
In 2017, Bradford Publishing Co. announced that they had reduced five positions at the ''Olean Times Herald''.
In July 2018, the Bradford Publishing papers were placed behind a soft
paywall.
References
External links
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Buffalo Hockey Beat- the Times Herald's hockey Web site
Daily newspapers published in New York (state)
Cattaraugus County, New York
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