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landmarks
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1863
New Zealand Herald founded by William Chisholm
Wilson
1863 Wilson founds The Weekly News
1874 Wairarapa News launched in Masterton
beginnings
1876 Wilson & Horton founded when NZ Herald merges
with Alfred George Horton's The Southern Cross
1878 Wairarapa News merges with Wairarapa
Free Press as Wairarapa Daily
1879 New Zealand Press Association established as the
United Press Association
1881 Wairarapa Star (later Wairarapa Age)
launched
1938 Wairarapa Age and Wairarapa Daily Times
merge as Wairarapa Times-Age
1939 The Listener launched by NZBC
1986 MBO of Wairarapa Times-Age
1989 Sky Television buys Northern
TV Studios at Mt Wellington from W&H
the INM era
1995 Independent Newspapers PLC of Dublin buys stake in
W&H
1995
W&H buys the Northern Publishing Company, publisher
of the Northern Advocate and the Whangarei
Report
1995 W&H buys the Hawkes Bay Sun, a community
newspaper with 50,000 circulation
1996 W&H, APN and Clear buy
Radio New Zealand's commercial stations, renamed The Radio
Network of New Zealand (TRN)
1996 INM moves to control of W&H
1998 Independent buys remaining shares in W&H
1999 W&H establishes Hastings Hawkes Bay Today
through merger of the Napier Daily Telegraph
and Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune
2001 Cardcorp Pty Ltd acquired and renamed Security Plastics
Pty Ltd, Australia
merger with APN
2001 Wilson & Horton merges with Australian-based
APN News & Media Ltd (APN), taking Independent News
& Media PLC (INM) stake in APN from 39.6% to 45%
2002 buys The Wairarapa Times-Age
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