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This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
More detailed coverage of the Tribune
group is provided in the complementary profile for that
group.
antecedents
1837 Baltimore Sun founded
1873 Mirror Printing Office & Book Bindery begins
printing Los Angeles Weekly Mirror
1881 Nathan Cole & Thomas Gardiner start Los Angeles
Daily Times
1882 Colonel Harrison Gray Otis becomes partner in LA
Daily Times and Weekly Mirror
beginnings
1884 Times-Mirror Company incorporated
1891 Weekly Mirror is incorporated with the Saturday
Times, which becomes Los Angeles Saturday Times and
Weekly Mirror
1894 Harry Chandler marries Marian Otis, daughter of Harrison
Gray Otis
1894 Times contracts to use carrier pigeons to
transport news from Los Angeles to Catalina Island
1898 during the Spanish-American War, the Times
signals developments in the war by sounding a 'war whistle'
installed on The Times building
1903 The Wireless, newspaper for Catalina Island,
begins publication
1905 Chandler & Otis make fortune through property
speculation when Owens River diverted to Los Angeles
1909 Hiram Johnson attacks Otis as "vile, infamous, degraded
and putrescence ..." with "senile dementia, gangrened
heart and rotting brain"
1910 LA Times building destroyed, allegedly by anarchists
1912 Tejon Ranch sold to Chandler & Otis syndicate
expansion
1915 Harry Chandler indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for
alleged involvement in Mexican Revolution
1923 first news photo sent by wireless in US is radioed
to LA Times from Honolulu
1927 Times Mirror sells radio station KHJ
1928 first aerial delivery of LA Times to San Francisco
and the San Joaquin Valley
1934 Jeppesen founded by Elrey Borge Jeppesen
1938 Hedda Hopper begins Hollywood gossip column in LA
Times, competing with Louella Parsons of Hearst's
Los Angeles Examiner
1940 Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson,
founds Newsday
1944 Harry Chandler dies at age 80, succeeded by son Norman
1948 LA Times and CBS establish
KTTV (Times Television) television station
1948 Times-Mirror launches tabloid LA Mirror
1950 acquires full ownership of KTTV
1954 William Bonelli's Billion Dollar Blackjack
attacks the Chandlers
1954 Times-Mirror buys circulation list and assets of
the Los Angeles Daily News, which is folded into
Mirror as Mirror-News
1958 Times Mirror Syndicate established
a new Times?
1960 Otis Chandler named fourth publisher of the Los
Angeles Times
1960 Times-Mirror buys New American Library
1961 Times-Mirror acquires H.M. Goucha Company
1961 LA Times installs an IBM
1401 computer, the first to be used by any US newspaper
1961 Times-Mirror acquires Orange Coast Publishing Company
(Orange Coast Daily Pilot)
1961 buys Jeppesen
1962 The Times-Mirror Company loses its hyphen and becomes
the Times Mirror Company
1962 Los Angeles Mirror ceases publication
1962 Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service established
1963 Times Mirror agrees to sell KTTV
1964 Times Mirror Company listed on the New York Stock
Exchange
1965 LA Times becomes first newspaper to publish
over 4 million classified advertisements in one year and
first US newspaper to publish over 100 million lines of
advertising in year
1967 Times Mirror buys General Features Corporation and
integrates it with Los Angeles Times Syndicate
1969 Times Mirror buys Dallas Times-Herald, Times-Herald
Printing Company and KDFW
convergence and churn
1970 Times Mirror buys controlling interest in Newsday
1977 Times Mirror purchases Greenwich Times and
Stamford Advocate
1977 Times Mirror buys Sporting News for US$18m
1978 Times Mirror sells 69,000 acres of timberland and
sawmill in northern California for about US$36m
1979 Times Mirror acquires Hartford (Connecticut) Courant
1980 Times Mirror buys Denver Post for US$95m
1982 Times Mirror buys Broadcasting for US$75m
1986 Times Mirror buys Baltimore Sun, Evening
Sun and WMAR-TV for US$600m
1987 Times Mirror sells Times Mirror Press telephone directory
printing arm to GTE Directories Corporation
1987 sells Denver Post to MediaNews
1989 buys Learning International, Zenger Miller and Kaset
International as the Times Mirror Training Group
1990 Times Mirror buys 50% share in La Opinion,
Los Angeles' largest Spanish-language newspaper
1991 Times Mirror buys Faber & Faber nursing books
1993 Times Mirror buys Gower Medical Publishing from Kluwer
1993 Times Mirror acquires Coast Community News: Glendale
News Press, Costa Mesa Daily Pilot,
Burbank Leader, Foothill Leader and Huntington
Beach Independent
1993 sells KDFW-TV Dallas and KTBC Austin to Argyle Television
1995 Times Mirror Cable Television sold to Cox
Communications
1995 sells Sporting Goods Dealer magazine
1995 Argyle stake sold to New World
Communications
1996 Times Mirror sells Doyma Libros publishing in Spain
1996 Times Mirror acquires Hollywood Online
1996 buys Shepard's legal publishing from McGraw-Hill
1996 Times Mirror sells 50% of Shepards legal publishing
to Elsevier
1996 sells Times Mirror higher education interests to
McGraw-Hill
1997 sells Harry N Abrams
1997 buys Patuxent Publishing Company
1997 sells PR News Service to United
News & Media
1997 merges Zenger Miller, Learning International and
Kaset International as AchieveGlobal
1998 Times Mirror buys Pasadena Weekly
1998 sells Matthew Bender & rest of Shepard's to Elsevier
for US$1.65bn
1998 sells Times Mirror medical publishing
merger
2000 Tribune group buys Times
Mirror group for US$6.5bn
2000 sells AchieveGlobal to IIR
2007 Zell announces takeover of Tribune
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