News-Press & Gazette Company
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The News Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley (retired), Eric Bradley and Kit Bradley serving on its Board of Directors. All are descendants of family patriarch Henry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley, Sr.
NPG's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, 14 radio and television Stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City
/ St. Joseph area for their newspapers and the western US for their broadcasting properties.
The company traces it roots back to the St. Joseph Gazette
which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into the Old West along the Oregon Trail
and California Trail
. It was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express
. The Gazette eventually merged with the News-Press by publisher Charles M. Palmer
. When Palmer died in 1949 Henry D. Bradley was co-publisher of both papers starting in 1939 and bought them outright in 1951. The Bradley family expanded the focus with St. Joseph Cablevision cable television in 1965. In 2011, the Bradley family sold the cable division to Suddenlink Communications. The Gazette ceased publication in 1988 when his sister the afternoon News-Press took its morning spot. The family kept the "Gazette" and "G" in the company name.
under the name NPG Cable, Inc. It had systems in these communities: On November 29, 2010, NPG announced that it had agreed to sell all of its cable systems to Suddenlink for $350 million. The acquisition was closed on April 1, 2011.
NPG's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, 14 radio and television Stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
/ St. Joseph area for their newspapers and the western US for their broadcasting properties.
The company traces it roots back to the St. Joseph Gazette
St. Joseph Gazette
The St. Joseph Gazette was a newspaper in St. Joseph, Missouri from 1845 until June 30, 1988, when its morning position was taken over by its sister paper, the St...
which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into the Old West along the Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a historic east-west wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.After 1840 steam-powered riverboats and steamboats traversing up and down the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers sped settlement and development in the flat...
and California Trail
California Trail
The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California...
. It was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express
Pony Express
The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861...
. The Gazette eventually merged with the News-Press by publisher Charles M. Palmer
Charles M. Palmer
Charles M. Palmer was a Midwest newspaper broker who assembled much of the William Randolph Hearst media empire and an organizer of the Associated Press.Palmer was born in a log cabin in La Crosse, Wisconsin...
. When Palmer died in 1949 Henry D. Bradley was co-publisher of both papers starting in 1939 and bought them outright in 1951. The Bradley family expanded the focus with St. Joseph Cablevision cable television in 1965. In 2011, the Bradley family sold the cable division to Suddenlink Communications. The Gazette ceased publication in 1988 when his sister the afternoon News-Press took its morning spot. The family kept the "Gazette" and "G" in the company name.
Newspapers
- St. Joseph News-PressSt. Joseph News-PressThe St. Joseph News-Press is a daily morning newspaper in St. Joseph, Missouri. It is the flagship of the News-Press & Gazette Company which owns newspapers, television and radio stations and cable television systems throughout the United States.-History:...
, St. Joseph, Missouri (flagshipFlagshipA flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, reflecting the custom of its commander, characteristically a flag officer, flying a distinguishing flag...
newspaper) - Atchison Globe, Atchison, KansasAtchison, KansasAtchison is a city situated along the Missouri River in the eastern part of Atchison County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,021. It is the county seat and most populous city of Atchison County...
- Hiawatha World, Hiawatha, KansasHiawatha, KansasHiawatha is the largest city and county seat of Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,172. It is the largest city on U.S. Route 36 between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado.Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
- Green Acres, St. Joseph, Missouri
- Miami County Republic, Paola, KansasPaola, KansasPaola is a city in and the county seat of Miami County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,602.-History:...
- Osawatomie Graphic, Osawatomie, KansasOsawatomie, KansasOsawatomie is a city in Miami County, Kansas, United States, southwest of Kansas City. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,447. It derives its name from two streams nearby, the Osage and Potawatomie.-History:...
- Louisburg Herald, Louisburg, KansasLouisburg, KansasLouisburg is a city in Miami County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,315.-19th century:Prior to the American Civil War, the land of what is now called Louisburg was part of that reserved for members of various tribes of Native Americans that were ceding...
- Greater Kansas City, Missouri Area:
- Smithville Herald, Smithville, MissouriSmithville, MissouriSmithville is a city in Clay and Platte counties in the U.S. state of Missouri, along the Little Platte River. The population was 5,514 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Smithville is located at , primarily in Clay County....
- Kearney Courier, Kearney, MissouriKearney, MissouriKearney is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States. The population was estimated to be 8,599 in 2008. It is most famous for being the birthplace of Jesse James, and there is an annual festival in the third weekend of September to recognize the notorious outlaw.Kearney was unofficially...
- Gladstone Dispatch, Gladstone, MissouriGladstone, MissouriGladstone is a city in Clay County, Missouri, founded in 1952 and is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. Like nearby North Kansas City, the city of Gladstone is now completely surrounded by Kansas City. Prior to 1952 this area was known as Linden. The population was 26,365 at the 2000 census...
- Liberty Tribune, Liberty, MissouriLiberty, MissouriLiberty is a city in Clay County, Missouri and is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. At the 2007 population estimate, the city population was 29,993...
- Johnson County Sun, Overland Park, Kansas
- Kansas City Nursing News, Overland Park, Kansas
- The Daily Star-JournalThe Daily Star-JournalThe Daily Star-Journal is a daily newspaper in Warrensburg, Missouri published by the News-Press & Gazette Company .-History:The paper traces its history to the Warrensburg Journal which began publishing April 17, 1865 by James Douglas Eads -- seven days after the end of the American Civil War and...
, Warrensburg, MissouriWarrensburg, MissouriWarrensburg is a city in Johnson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,340 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Johnson County. The Warrensburg Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Johnson County. It is home to the University of Central Missouri.-History:Warrensburg...
- Smithville Herald, Smithville, Missouri
Television
- KTVZKTVZKTVZ is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Oregon that is licensed to Bend. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 21 from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, the station is sister to low-powered...
Channel 21 (NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
/The CWThe CW Television NetworkThe CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
) Bend, OregonBend, OregonBend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...
- KFXO Channel 39 (FoxFox Broadcasting CompanyFox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
) Bend, Oregon (KTVZ-DT2) - KQRE-LPKQRE-LPKQRE-LP, channel 19, is a low-power station serving the Bend, Oregon television market, licensed to nearby Riley, Oregon. Owned by News-Press & Gazette Company, it serves as the market's Telemundo affiliate....
channel 19 (Telemundo) RileyRiley, OregonRiley, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States. The center of the community is at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 395 and U.S. Highway 20, milepost 104. Riley is about west of Burns, the seat of Harney County. The elevation of Riley is .Riley is farming and...
/ Bend, Oregon (KTVZ-DT3)
- KFXO Channel 39 (Fox
- KVIA-TVKVIA-TVKVIA-TV is an ABC affiliate television station in El Paso, Texas. It broadcasts its digital signal on channel 7 and channel 17. It is owned by and was the flagship television station of the News-Press & Gazette Company of St. Joseph, Missouri before the company acquired KRDO-TV. Its transmitter is...
Channel 7 (ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
/The CW) El Paso, TexasEl Paso, TexasEl Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...
- KAEP-LPKAEP-LPKAEP-LP is a low-power television station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 42 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Founded October 27, 1994, the station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting and operated by KVIA-TV, a station owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company...
Channel 42 (Azteca AméricaAzteca AméricaAzteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
) Las Cruces, New MexicoLas Cruces, New MexicoLas Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the county seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 97,618 in 2010 according to the 2010 Census, making it the second largest city in the state....
(owned by Hubbard Broadcasting; operated by NPG)
- KAEP-LP
- KESQ-TVKESQ-TVKESQ-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Coachella Valley of California licensed to Palm Springs. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 42 from a transmitter on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10...
Channel 42 / Cable 3 (ABC) Palm Springs, CaliforniaPalm Springs, CaliforniaPalm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego...
- KDFX-CAKDFX-CAKDFX-CA is the Class A Fox-affiliated television station for the Coachella Valley licensed to Indio and Palm Springs, California. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10...
Channel 33 / Cable 11 (Fox) Indio, CaliforniaIndio, CaliforniaIndio is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies east of Palm Springs, east of Riverside, and east of Los Angeles. It is about north of Mexicali, Baja California on the U.S.-Mexican border...
(KESQ-DT2) - KUNA-LPKUNA-LPKUNA-LP, channel 15, is a Telemundo affiliate in the Coachella Valley area of California that includes Indio and Palm Springs.KUNA-LP signed on the air originally as K15EI on May 15, 1996 and then switched call letters to KUNA-LP on March 31, 2003. KUNA-LP airs local news,Telemundo programming, and...
Channel 15 (Telemundo) Indio, California - KCWQ-LPKCWQ-LPKCWQ-LP is the low-powered CW-affiliated television station for the Coachella Valley that is licensed to Palm Springs. It broadcasts an analog signal on VHF channel 2 and a digital signal on UHF channel 26 from a transmitter on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10...
Channel 2 (The CW) Palm Springs, California (KESQ-DT3)
- KDFX-CA
- KECY-TVKECY-TVKECY-TV is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for El Centro, California and Yuma, Arizona. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter between the two cities in the Chocolate Mountains in Imperial County, California. Owned...
Channel 9 (Fox/ABC on DT2) Yuma, ArizonaYuma, ArizonaYuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of the state, and the population of the city was 77,515 at the 2000 census, with a 2008 Census Bureau estimated population of 90,041....
- KESE-LPKESE-LPKESE-LP is the lone Telemundo affiliate serving the Yuma-El Centro TV market, located in Yuma, Arizona. It is owned and operated by Gulf-California Broadcast Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the News-Press & Gazette Company of St...
Channel 35 (Telemundo) Yuma, Arizona
- KESE-LP
- KRDO-TVKRDO-TVKRDO-TV, virtual channel 13, is the ABC-affiliated television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 24. The station is owned by Pikes Peak Television, a subsidiary of the News-Press & Gazette Company of St...
Channel 13 (ABC/Telemundo DT2) Colorado Springs, ColoradoColorado Springs, ColoradoColorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado... - KJCTKJCTKJCT is a television station in Grand Junction, Colorado that serves the Grand Junction-Montrose market. It is an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company owned and operated by the News-Press & Gazette Company...
Channel 8 (ABC/Telemundo DT2/CW DT3) Grand Junction, ColoradoGrand Junction, ColoradoThe City of Grand Junction is the largest city in western Colorado. It is a city with a council–manager government form that is the county seat and the most populous city of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. Grand Junction is situated west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. As... - KIFI-TVKIFI-TVKIFI-TV is the local American Broadcasting Company affiliated television station for Idaho Falls and Pocatello, Idaho. It broadcasts a digital signal on channel 8. The station is owned by News-Press & Gazette Company of St...
Channel 8 (ABC/Telemundo DT2/CW on DT3) Idaho Falls, IdahoIdaho Falls, IdahoIdaho Falls is a city in and the county seat of Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, and the largest city in Eastern Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population of Idaho Falls was 56,813, with a metro population of 130,374....
- KIDKKIDKKIDK, virtual channel 3, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Idaho Falls and Pocatello, Idaho, USA. It broadcasts a digital signal on channel 36. The station is owned by Fisher Communications. Its transmitter is located atop East Butte, near Atomic City.-History:The station was founded on...
Channel 3 (CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
) Idaho Falls, Idaho (owned by Fisher CommunicationsFisher CommunicationsFisher Communications is a media company in the United States. Based in Seattle, Washington, the company owns a number of radio and television stations in the Western United States.- Radio Stations :- Television Stations :...
; operated by NPG) - KXPI-LD Channel 34 (MyNetworkTVMyNetworkTVMyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
) Pocatello, IdahoPocatello, IdahoPocatello is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the Pocatello metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Bannock...
(KIDK-DT2) (owned by Fisher Communications; operated by NPG)
- KIDK
Radio
- KUNA-FMKUNA-FMKUNA-FM is a commercial regional Mexican music radio station in La Quinta, California, broadcasting to the Palm Springs, California, area on 96.7 FM....
96.7 FM Palm Springs, California - KESQ-AMKESQ (AM)KESQ is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Religious music format. Licensed to Indio, California, USA. The station is currently owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company and rented by a Spanish religious radio network by La Iglesia Alfa Y Omega .The radio station itself began broadcasting in...
1400 AM Palm Springs, California - KRDO-FMKRDO-FMKRDO-FM is a News/Talk radio station simulcast on KRDO 1240 and based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The format complements KRDO-TV's news broadcasts. It is owned by Optima Communications and operated by the News-Press & Gazette Company of St. Joseph, Missouri under a time brokerage...
105.5 FM Colorado Springs, Colorado (owned by Optima Communications; operated by NPG) - KRDO-AMKRDO (AM)KRDO is a news/talk radio station simulcasted from KRDO-FM 105.5 and based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The format complements KRDO-TV's news broadcasts. KRDO is owned and operated by the News-Press & Gazette Company of St. Joseph, Missouri....
1240 AM Colorado Springs, Colorado
Cable
NPG owned cable systemsCable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
under the name NPG Cable, Inc. It had systems in these communities: On November 29, 2010, NPG announced that it had agreed to sell all of its cable systems to Suddenlink for $350 million. The acquisition was closed on April 1, 2011.
- St. Joseph, Missouri
- Lake Havasu City, ArizonaLake Havasu City, Arizona-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 41,938 people, 17,911 households, and 12,716 families residing in the city. The population density was 974.4 people per square mile . There were 23,018 housing units at an average density of 534.8 per square mile...
- Parker, ArizonaParker, ArizonaParker is a town in and the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona, United States, on the Colorado River in Parker Valley. The population was 3,140 at the 2000 census.-History:...
- Blythe, CaliforniaBlythe, CaliforniaBlythe is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the "Palo Verde Valley" of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River. Blythe was named after Thomas Blythe, a gold prospector who established primary...
- Bullhead City, ArizonaBullhead City, ArizonaBullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, USA, roughly south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos and ancillary services supply much of the employment for Bullhead City...
- Kingman, ArizonaKingman, ArizonaKingman is located in a desert climate on the edge of the Mojave Desert, but its higher elevation and location between the Colorado Plateau and the Lower Colorado River Valley tempers summer high temperatures and contributes to winter cold and rare snowfall. Summer daytime highs reach above 90 °F ...
- Flagstaff, ArizonaFlagstaff, ArizonaFlagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2010, the city's population was 65,870. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was at 134,421 in 2010. It is the county seat of Coconino County...
- Payson, ArizonaPayson, Arizona- History :Payson considers its founding year as 1882, at which time it was known as Green Valley or Union Park. On March 3, 1884, the town officially established a post office. Postmaster Frank C. Hise recommended that the town be named after a man named Levi Joseph Payson. Senator Payson was very...
- Sedona, ArizonaSedona, ArizonaSedona is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona...
- Mammoth Lakes, CaliforniaMammoth Lakes, California-History:The European history of Mammoth Lakes started in 1877, when four prospectors staked a claim on Mineral Hill, south of the current town, along Old Mammoth Road. In 1878, the Mammoth Mining Company was organized to mine Mineral Hill, which caused a gold rush. By the end of 1878, 1500 people...
- June Lake, California
- Pine, ArizonaPine, ArizonaPine is a census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,931 at the 2000 census. Pine was established by four Mormon families in 1879....
- Strawberry, ArizonaStrawberry, ArizonaStrawberry is a census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,028 at the 2000 census.-History:In June 1931, federal agents destroyed a large whiskey still in Sandrock Canyon, north of Strawberry. The still had an estimated worth of $20,000...