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beginnings
1835
James Gordon Bennett founds New
York Herald
1841 Eben Jordan and Benjamin Marsh establish Jordan Marsh
in Boston
1851 first issue of the New-York Daily Times
1857 name changed to The New-York Times
1861 first Sunday issue of The Times
1871 pioneer investigative journalism documents widespread
corruption by NY politician Tweed
1872 Boston Globe launched
1873 Jordan and Taylor take control of Boston Globe
1877 Sunday edition of Boston Globe
launched in 1877
1887 J Gordon Bennett Jr launches Paris edition of NY
Herald
1888 Boston Evening Globe launched
Ochs
1896 Adolph S. Ochs buys controlling stake in The
New-York Times
1896 paper's slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
first appears
1904 first on-the-spot wireless dispatch in history occurs
with eyewitness account of fighting off Port Arthur during
Russo-Japanese War
1905 Times moves to Long Acre Square at 42d Street
and Broadway, subsequently renamed Times Square
1907 first New Year's Eve ball is dropped from Times
Building in Times Square
1910 first news photo appears on the front page
1911 New York Times Book Review, formerly the Saturday
Review of Books and Art, begins as a Sunday section
1913 sells Philadelphia Public Ledger to Curtis
1926 buys 42% stake in Spruce Falls Power & Paper
1933 regular use of color begins in the Sunday Magazine
1935 first Associated Press wire photo runs in the
Times
Sulzberger
1935 Adolph S. Ochs dies, Arthur Hays Sulzberger becomes
publisher
1942 first publication of Best Sellers list in NY
Times Book Review
1959 John Hay Whitney buys NY
Herald Tribune and Paris Herald Tribune
expansion
1960 NY Times buys 49% stake in Gaspesia Pulp & Paper
Company
1966 buys majority stake in Teaching Resources & Systems
Corp for US$0.5m
1966 Whitney family closes NY Herald Tribune,
sells 50% of Paris Herald Tribune to Washington
Post
1966 Kaiser forms alliance with
Boston Globe to operate WKBG-TV
1967 New York Times Company goes public
1967 takes 33% stake in Paris Herald Tribune,
which is rebadged as International Herald Tribune
1969 buys Golf Digest magazine and UK Golf World
1970 buys 35% stake in Malbaie Paper Company
1971 buys remaining 49% in Arno Press
1971 buys Cowles Communications
(inc Family Circle and Look magazines, Cambridge
Book Company, Memphis tv station and regional newspapers)
for US$67m
1971 buys Modern Medicine group of professional magazines
1971 buys Gainesville Sun, Lakeland Ledger,
Ocala Star-Banner, Leesburg Daily and Palatka
Daily News
1971 buys WREG-TV Memphis
1972 buys Lake City Reporter, Fernandina Beach
News-Leader, Sebring News-Sun and Avon Park
Sun
1972 buys Tennis magazine
1973 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger becomes chairman
1973 New York Times Information Bank becomes publicly
available
1973 buys Lexington Dispatch and Marco Island Eagle
1973 Boston Globe company becomes Affiliated Publications
1974 NY Times Co buys Hendersonville Times-News
1975 buys Wilmington Morning Star
1976 Kaiser acquires Boston Globe's interest
in WKBG (renamed WLVI-TV)
1977 NY Times Co sells professional magazine and music
publishing businesses
1978 buys Zephyrhills News
1979 buys KFSM-TV Fort Smith/Fayetteville
1979 Boston Evening Globe closes
1980 NY Times Co forms Madison Paper Industries with Finnish
paper manufacturer Myllykoski Oy
1980 Affiliated buys 45% of McCaw cable for US$12m
the age of churn
1980 sells TV Guide (Australia), Cambridge Book
Company and Us magazine
1980 buys WHNT-TV Huntsville
1980 buys Anna Maria Islander, Houma Courier,Thibodaux
Daily Comet and founds Golden Gate Eagle
1981 sells Australian magazine operations, buys NYT Cable
TV
1982 buys Florence Times Daily, Opelousas Daily
World, Lenior News-Topic, Madisonville Messenger,
Daily Corinthian, Middlesboro Daily News,
Harlan Daily Enterprise, Dyersburg State Gazette,
York County Coast Star, Claiborne Progress and
Booneville Banner-Independent
1982 buys Sarasota Herald-Tribune for US$90m
1983 sells Film Facts Inc and Teaching Resources
1984 sells Times Books, Zephyrhills News and Anna
Maria Islander
1984 buys Cruising World magazine
1984 MBO of Billboard Publications, becomes BPI
1985 NY Times Co buys Santa Barbara News-Press,
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Spartanburg Herald-Journal,
Tuscaloosa News and Gadsen Times
1985 buys WNEP-TV Wilkes-Barre and WQAD-TV Moline
1986 sells Golden Gate Eagle, buys Southern
Travel magazine
1986 Affiliated Publications buys BPI for US$100m
1987 NY Times Co buys Gwinnett Daily News for US$88m,
Forsyth County News, Winder News and Child
magazine
1988 buys US Golf World, sells Southern Travel
magazine, buys Sailing World magazine, launches
Snow Country magazine
1989 sells NYT Cable TV, buys McCall's magazine
1990 sells Harlan Daily Enterprise, Middlesboro
Daily News and Claiborne Progress
1991 sells 50% stake in Spruce Falls Power & Paper
Company
1991 with Washington Post buys
Whitney family's 33% stake in
International Herald Tribune
1991 Affiliated reduces BPI stake to 33%
1992 NY Times closes Gwinnett Daily News, sells
assets to Cox
1993 buys Affiliated Publications
1994 sells stake in Gaspesia Pulp & Paper Company,
Forsyth County News and Winder News
1994 sells Women's Magazines Division (inc Family
Circle and McCalls) to Gruner
+ Jahr USA
1994 sells UK Golf Industry News, Golf Weekly and
Golf World to EMAP for £11.25m
1994 sells stake in BPI to VNU
1995 sells Daily Corinthian, Madisonville Messenger,
Lenior News-Topic, Dyerburg State Gazette,
Boonesville Banner-Independent, Leesburg Daily
Commercial and York County Coast Star
1995 buys WTKR-TV Norfolk/Virginia Beach
1995 launches cable tv Popcorn Channel
1995 buys Video News International
1996 buys KFOR-TV Oklahoma City and WHO-TV Des Moines
1996 buys acquired Imperial Delivery Service
1996 launches The New York Times on the Web
1997 sells Tennis, Tennis Buyer's Guide, Sailing World,
Cruising World, Snow Country and Snow Country Business
1998 joins Classified Ventures, founded in 1997 by Times
Mirror, Tribune and Washington
Post
1998 leases broadcast time on WQEW (AM) for eight-year
period to ABC for its Radio Disney
program
the dot com era
1998 launches New York Today
1999 invests US$15 million in fashionable dot com TheStreet.com
1999 creates Times Company Digital as new business unit
consolidating internet holdings
1999 Abuzz Technologies
buys 2000 buys Worcester Telegram & Gazette
2000 Marco Island Eagle, Sebring News-Sun,
Palatka Daily News, Lake City Reporter,
Fernandina Beach News-Leader and Opelousas Daily
World sold to Scripps and
others
2000 sells Santa Barbara News-Press to Wendy McCaw
2001 sells Golf Digest, Golf World, Golf World Business,
Golf Digest Woman and GolfDigest.com
2001 buys weekly Petaluma Argus-Courier from Pulitzer
2002 buys 50% of Discovery Civilization Channel from Discovery
Communications for US$100m
2003 buys Washington Post's stake in International
Herald Tribune for US$65m
2005 buys 49% stake in daily Metro Boston from
Metro for US$16.5m
2005 buys About.com from Primedia
for US$410m
2005 agrees to buy KAUT-TV Oklahoma City from Viacom
2006 buys Baseline StudioSystems entertainment information
service for US$35m from Hollywood Media Corp.
2006 announces plans to sell all television stations (Des
Moines, Fort Smith, Huntsville, Memphis, Moline, Norfolk,
Scranton, and two in Oklahoma City)
2007 agrees to sell its nine local tv stations to Oak
Hill Capital Partners for US$575m
2007 agrees to sell radio station WQEW to Disney
for US$40m
2007 buys ConsumerSearch.com for US$33m
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