Kent County Daily Times
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| Kent County Daily Times | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | RISN Operations Inc. |
| Publisher | David R. Dear, Jr. |
| Editor | Louis C. Hochman |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Headquarters | 1353 Main Street, West Warwick, Rhode Island 02893 USA |
| Circulation | 3,390 daily in 2006[1] |
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| Website: ricentral.com | |
The Kent County Daily Times is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) evening daily newspaper based in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA, covering central and western Kent County, Rhode Island. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc.
Towns in the Daily Times' coverage area include Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich and West Warwick, all suburbs or rural towns southwest of Providence, Rhode Island. A sister paper, the Warwick Daily Times, covers Warwick, Rhode Island.
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[edit] History
The Kent County paper was founded in 1892 as the Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times, switching to its current name in the 1980s.[2] In 1999, it was acquired by Journal Register Company.[3]
The newspaper increased its staff and expanded to four sections in 2006, also launching the Warwick Daily Times and relaunching its Website. In 2007, a new company, RISN, formed to purchase Journal Register's Rhode Island properties, including the Daily Times newspapers.[2]
[edit] Sisters and competitors
In its coverage area, Daily Times competes with the state's largest daily, the Providence Journal, as well as several weeklies.
RISN (which stands for Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers) also owns three other daily newspapers in Rhode Island, The Call of Woonsocket, The Times of Pawtucket and the Warwick Daily Times, as well as several weekly newspapers. All of these properties were sold for $8.3 million to RISN in early 2007 by Journal Register Company.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending September 30, 2006.
- ^ a b c "RISN Completes Purchase of Daily Times". Kent County Daily Times (W. Warwick, R.I.), February 6, 2007.
- ^ Grimaldi, Paul. "These Newspapers' Future Lies in Hyper-Local Presence". Providence Journal, January 31, 2007.
[edit] External link
| Newspapers published by RISN Operations |
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| Dailies: The Call • Kent County Daily Times • The Times • Warwick Daily Times • Weeklies: Southern Rhode Island Newspapers |
