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Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain—was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States. The company was founded by its namesake, Guy P. Gannett, in 1921, and managed by a family trust from 1954 to 1998, when it sold most of its properties to The Seattle Times Company and Sinclair Broadcast Group. == History == William Howard Gannett, of Augusta, Maine, first published ''Comfort'' magazine in 1888—an eight-page advertisement for a patent medicine—but it was his son, Guy Patterson Gannett, who headed the push into daily journalism. After a stint helping with the magazine after his 1901 graduation from Yale University, the junior Gannett went into local politics. By 1920, he was a prominent citizen in Portland and two daily newspaper owners—representing the ''Portland Herald'' and the ''Portland Daily Press''—had asked him to buy them out. Gannett invested in both companies.〔Wickenheiser, Matt. ("A Rich History, and a Proud History" ). ''Portland Press Herald'', June 8, 2004. Accessed October 29, 2007.〕 In 1921, he completed his purchase of the two Portland papers, merging them into one ''Portland Press Herald'', and also bought the ''Waterville Morning Sentinel'' in Waterville, Maine. In 1925 he added, for US$550,000, the Portland ''Evening Express and Daily Advertiser'' and ''Portland Sunday Telegram''. Four years later, Guy Gannett Publishing Co. tacked on the ''Kennebec Journal'' in Augusta.〔("History of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram" ), accessed October 29, 2007.〕 At first, the company expanded beyond newspapers with WGAN radio (1938) and television (1954) stations in Portland only (WGAN-TV was renamed WGME in the 1980s). In 1967, Guy Gannett began to buy television properties outside Maine.〔 On February 1, 1991, succumbing to industry-wide declines in revenues at afternoon newspapers, Guy Gannett closed the Evening Express and merged it with the Portland Press Herald. Daily circulation of the ''Express'' was given at 22,000 to 23,000.〔"Portland Dailies Plan to Merge". ''Telegram & Gazette'' (Worcester, Mass.), page C5, September 26, 1990.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Gannett Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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