Media of Marshall, Texas
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Marshall, Texas, has one newspaper, the Marshall News Messenger, as well as an ABC news office. Three radio stations, KMHT, KMHT-FM, and KBWC, are based in the city. There are no television stations in the city, but the city is within the reception area of stations based in Shreveport, Louisiana: KTBS (ABC), KSLA (CBS), KMSS (FOX), KTAL (NBC), KPXJ (UPN), KSHV (WB), and KLTS (Louisiana Public Broadcasting). The local cable company, Charter provides public access channels that show local football games produced by KMHT radio, live and replays of meeting of the City and County commissions, and streams audio from KMHT.
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 The 2009-06-30 cover of The Marshall News-Messenger. |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Cox Enterprises |
| Publisher | Phil Latham |
| Founded | 1877 |
| Headquarters | 309 East Austin St. Marshall, TX 75670 United States |
| Website | MarshallNewsMessenger.com |
There have been three newspapers based in Marshall, Texas: the Texas Republican (1849–1872), the Tri-Weekly Herald (1874), and the current Marshall News Messenger (originally the Marshall Morning News).
The Marshall News Messenger (originally the Marshall Morning News) is a daily newspaper based in Marshall, Texas, with a circulation of around 8,000 in the Marshall area. Phil Latham is the editor of the paper.
Several notable people began careers at The Marshall News Messenger: Bill Moyers began his journalism career at age sixteen as a cub reporter, and popular Texas radio talk show host, Mattie Dellinger, had her first job in journalism there in 1953.
The Texas Republican and the Tri-Weekly Herald, both published by Robert W. Loughery, were credited with aiding the election of Marshall citizens J.P. Henderson, Edward Clark, and Pendleton Murrah to the Governor's office and Louis T. Wigfall to the U.S. Senate.
In the Texas Republican, Loughery defended slavery and plantation agriculture and supported the secession of Texas and later the Confederacy. The election of local citizens and the fiery pro-confederate stance of the Texas Republican made it one of the most-read papers in Texas and made Marshall a major political center in Antebellum Texas.
