Cape Cod Times
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| Cape Cod Times | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of News Corporation |
| Publisher | Peter Meyer |
| Editor | Paul Pronovost |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Headquarters | 319 Main Street, Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 United States |
| Circulation | 49,439 daily, 56,708 Sunday in 2006[1] |
| ISSN | 0747-1467 |
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| Website: capecodonline.com | |
The Cape Cod Times is a broadsheet daily newspaper serving Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by Ottaway Community Newspapers, a subsidiary of News Corporation.
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[edit] History
The paper was first published by businessman J.P. Dunn and Basil Brewer on October 19, 1936 as the Cape Cod Standard-Times, and was distributed jointly on the Cape with The New Bedford Standard-Times until the end of 1970. It was first published as an independent daily for Cape Cod on January 1, 1971 and renamed the Cape Cod Times from September 2, 1975.[2]
The Times also owns a 175-year-old rival weekly newspaper, The Barnstable Patriot, which it purchased in 2005 for an undisclosed sum. Peter Meyer, the Times' president and publisher, said the newsrooms of the daily and 4,500-circulation weekly would remain separate. Ottaway, the Times' parent, also owns the weekly Inquirer & Mirror of Nantucket.[3]
News Corp. acquired the Times when it bought Dow Jones & Company (which itself had purchased Ottaway in 1970) for US$5 billion in in late 2007. Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., reportedly told investors before the deal that he would be "selling the local newspapers fairly quickly" after the Dow Jones purchase.[4]
[edit] Today's Times
Inside each daily edition of the Times are separate sections for news, sports, business, and classified ads. Additional news sections include "Lifestyle & Arts" (Monday and Friday); "Business Tuesday"; "Food" (Wednesday); "Health & Fitness" (Thursday); "CapeWeek" (Friday); "Arts & Entertainment" (Saturday); and, on Sunday, "Travel," "Cape & Islands" (local news), "Forum" (opinion), "Home and Family," "The Wall Street Journal Sunday," "Real Estate" and "TVTimes" (television).[5]
[edit] Circulation and offices
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations report from September 2004, the Times sold an average of 50,896 copies on weekdays and 60,460 copies on Sunday. In 2006, ABC figures reflected a lower distribution of approximately 49,440 on weekdays, 49,820 on Saturdays and 56,710 on Sundays.
The Times' main news office is on Main Street in Hyannis, the largest village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. It also has news bureaus and sales offices on the main streets of Falmouth and Orleans, Massachusetts. Circulation, business and printing operations, formerly handled at the headquarters office, are now in a 71,000-square-foot (6,600 m²) facility at Independence Park, Hyannis, built in 1988 and expanded in 1994.[2]
[edit] Recent editors
- Bill Breisky (1978-1995)
- Cliff Schechtman (1995-2005)
- Paul Pronovost (2005-present)
[edit] External links
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulation "eCirc" report for six months ending September 30, 2006, at www.accessabc.com, accessed January 6, 2007.
- ^ a b "Our History", accessed January 7, 2007.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Jay. "Cape Cod Times Purchases Weekly Newspaper Rival," Boston Herald, October 5, 2005.
- ^ "Ottaway Papers Might Be Sold, Including 16 in N.E.". NEPA Bulletin (Boston, Mass.), December 2007, page 3.
- ^ Cape Cod Times Section Listing, accessed January 7, 2007.
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