Evening Post Industries (founded as Evening Post Publishing Company) is a privately held American media company based in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It has been led by four generations of the Manigault family.
The company owns The Post and Courier of Charleston, the South's oldest daily newspaper; the Aiken Standard; and five other newspapers in the state. Other holdings include White Oak Forestry Company and the Clear Night Group marketing agency.
History The Evening Post Publishing Company was formed by rice planter Arthur Manigault in 1896 to acquire The Evening Post, Charleston's then-ailing afternoon newspaper."Evening Post Industries History," Evening Post Industries official website. Accessed Jan. 3, 2018. Manigault's son Robert became publisher in 1924. Two years later, he bought Charleston's morning paper, The News & Courier, the oldest daily newspaper in the South.
The company launched an international syndication arm, Editors Press Service, in 1933.
When Robert died in 1945, his brother Edward took over; he was in turn succeeded by his son Peter. Peter's son, Pierre, inherited the company upon Peter's death in 2004.
In 2004, the Evening Post Publishing Company sold Editors Press Service to the Universal Press Syndicate, which renamed it Atlantic Syndication.
The company also owned the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, Latin America's oldest English language newspaper, until 2007. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=449785
In 2007, the company launched Garden & Gun magazine, which it sold in 2009 to a new firm launched by Pierre Manigault.
In 2013, the company renamed itself Evening Post Industries. In a press release, CEO John Barnwell said, “The name change better reflects our existing diversified holdings and ongoing acquisition strategy in beyond media, while keeping the legacy value of Evening Post."
Broadcast selloff In October 2018, the company agreed to sell its television-broadcasting subsidiary: Cordillera Communications, a holding company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. 15 of Cordillera's 16 stations were purchased by the E. W. Scripps Company; Quincy Media acquiring KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, because Scripps already owned KGUN-TV. The sale was approved by the FCC on April 5, 2019,FCC OKs Scripps Purchase of Cordillera Stations , Broadcasting & Cable, 5 April 2019, Retrieved 5 April 2019. and completed on May 1.
+ Stations formerly owned by Cordillera Communications Media market State Station Purchased Sold Notes Tucson Arizona KVOA 1993 2019 San Luis Obispo–Santa Barbara California KSBY 2004 2019 Pueblo–Colorado Springs Colorado KOAA-TV 1977 2019 Nampa–Boise Idaho KIVI-TV 1981 2002 Lexington Kentucky WLEX-TV 1999 2019 Lafayette Louisiana KATC 1995 2019 Billings Montana KTVQ 1994 2019 Bozeman KBZK 1993 2019 Butte KXLF-TV 1986 2019 Great Falls KRTV 1986 2019 KTGF-LD 2015 2019 Helena KXLH-LD 1995 2019 KTVH-DT 2015 2019 Kalispell KAJJ-CD 1988 2019 Missoula KPAX-TV 1986 2019 Corpus Christi Texas KRIS-TV 1998 2019 KZTV – K22JA-D 1998 2019 El Paso KDBC-TV 1974 1986
Properties Newspapers
The Post and Courier - Charleston, South Carolina The Georgetown Times - Georgetown, South Carolina The Kingstree News - Kingstree, South Carolina Aiken Standard - Aiken, South Carolina Moultrie News - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina Summerville Journal-Scene - Summerville, South Carolina The Berkeley Independent - Moncks Corner, South Carolina Goose Creek Gazette - Goose Creek, South Carolina Waccamaw Times - Pawleys Island, South Carolina The Star - North Augusta, South Carolina Free Times - Columbia, South Carolina
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