Rockford Register Star
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The front page of the Register Star on October 27, 2005 | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gannett |
Founded | February 15, 1855 March 20, 1888 , as Morning Star 1979 (as Rockford Register Star) | , as Register Republic
Headquarters | 99 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois, United States |
Circulation | 65,224 weekdays 40,429 Saturdays 62,381 Sundays (2012)[1] |
OCLC number | 5004029 |
Website | www.rrstar.com |
The Rockford Register Star is the primary daily newspaper of the Rockford, Illinois metropolitan area. The fifth-highest circulation newspaper in Illinois, the Register Star takes its name from the 1979 merger of two predecessors, the Register Republic (founded February 15, 1855 , daily since January 6, 1873 ) and the Morning Star (founded March 20, 1888 ). The Register Star is currently owned by Gannett, which reacquired the paper upon merging with GateHouse Media in 2019. Gannett had previously owned the paper and its predecessors from 1967 to 2007.
As of September 2006, the newspaper's Sunday circulation was 70,300—the 163rd-largest in the United States.[2]
Headquarters
The newspaper is published from the Register Star Tower at 99 East State Street in Downtown Rockford, Illinois, where it prints on a new press debuted in 2006. The tower was built in 1930 and remains a Rockford landmark to this day, as it is still recognized as one of the most appealing buildings in downtown. It was designed to be similar in appearance to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
Format
The publication's general format is customary to that of most papers around the nation; it contains a front page and an "A" section, followed by local and state news, sports, and business throughout the work week. On Sundays it publishes the Sunday Register Star, where ads for national chains in the area are promoted along with the insertion of comics, the "Go" section, and USA Weekend magazine.
In 2003, the newspaper formed an alliance with WREX-TV. Newspaper reporters are seen on WREX-TV's newscasts on a daily basis promoting stories found in the Rockford Register Star, and the newspaper's website contains many videos of WREX's telecasted stories.
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References
- ^ "FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012". Arlington Heights, Ill.: Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulation