The ''San Mateo County Times'' was a daily newspaper published by the

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. The paper is distributed throughout

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, Monday through Saturday. Before being sold in 1996, it had been published for over 100 years as the ''San Mateo Times'', originally published by Amphlett Publishing.

''San Mateo Times''

Amphlett also published a weekly "shopping" newspaper, ''The San Mateo Post'', on Wednesday mornings. The ''Times'' provided extensive coverage of San Mateo County news and sports (sometimes using high school or college correspondents). It had one of the first television columnists in the

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, Bob Foster, who covered the birth of

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, San Francisco's first television station, in December 1948. Foster remained on the staff for many years, covering Bay Area television and radio. He was an occasional guest on

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talk shows. In 1968, Amphlett acquired several weekly newspapers in

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, Pacifica, and

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. All operations for these papers were moved to a central facility in South San Francisco. In 1996, the ''Times'' and the surviving weekly newspapers owned and published by Amphlett were purchased by ANG Newspapers (Alameda Newspaper Group), an

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-based subsidiary of MediaNews Group, a national chain of newspapers and broadcast stations with corporate offices at 101 W. Colfax Avenue,

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. The daily newspaper, known since 1979 as ''The Times'', was renamed the ''San Mateo County Times.'' In 2011,

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announced that the ''San Mateo Times'' would publish its last issue on November 1, 2011. From Nov. 2, 2011, subscribers would receive localized versions of the ''

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''. The plan was later canceled. In 2016, the ''San Mateo Times'' was merged into the ''

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References

External links

Official website
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