Calkins Media
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Calkins Media is a media company based in Levittown, Pennsylvania, which owns 8 newspapers and 3 television stations, all of them are ABC affiliates. It was established in 1937 as Calkins Newspapers, Inc. and changed its name to Calkins Media in 2002. Their flagship website, www.PhillyBurbs.com, is the largest suburban news site in the Philadelphia market.
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[edit] Newspapers owned by Calkins
- The Beaver County Times
- Bucks County Courier Times (Pa.)[1]
- Burlington County Times (N.J.)
- Ellwood City Ledger
- Greene County Messenger
- Uniontown Herald-Standard
- South Dade News Leader
- The Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)
[edit] Television stations owned by Calkins
| City of license/Market | Station | RF Channel |
Display Channel |
Owned Since | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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13a.1
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Sarasota, Florida | WWSB | 24 | 40 | 1986 | ABC |
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83.
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Huntsville, Alabama | WAAY-TV | 32 | 31 | 2007 | ABC |
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108.
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Tallahassee, Florida | WTXL-TV | 27 | 27 | 2005 | ABC |
Note:
- 1 The station is licensed to Sarasota, which is part of the Tampa market. However, WWSB does not serve all of the Tampa/St. Petersburg area as the ABC affiliate (WFTS serves the Tampa metro area, WWSB serves the southern portion of the market). The station also serves portions of the Fort Myers market.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ The Bucks County Courier Times is a sister paper of The Intelligencer and the Burlington County Times.
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