Calkins Media

American media company

Calkins Media, Inc. was a media company established in 1937. It included daily newspapers and digital sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a weekly newspaper in South Dade, and broadcast stations located in Huntsville, Tallahassee and Sarasota. Corporate and digital headquarters were located in Bucks County.

In 2016, Raycom Media agreed to purchase Calkins Media's three television stations. A sale of WAAY-TV to Raycom affiliate American Spirit Media was blocked by the Department of Justice due to Raycom's ownership of WAFF. Raycom closed on the purchase of WWSB and WTXL-TV on May 1, 2017, while WAAY-TV was instead sold to Heartland Media.^[1]

In 2017, GateHouse Media and Ogden Newspapers agreed to terms to purchase Calkins Media's newspaper assets.^[2]^[3]

Former assets

Newspapers

The Beaver County Times - (now owned by Gannett)
Bucks County Courier Times - (PA)^[4] - (now owned by Gannett)
Burlington County Times (NJ) - (now owned by Gannett)
Ellwood City Ledger - (now owned by Gannett)
Greene County Messenger - (now owned by Ogden Newspapers)
(Uniontown, PA) The Herald-Standard - (now owned by Ogden Newspapers)
South Dade News Leader - (now owned by South Dade News, Inc.)
The Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) - (now owned by Gannett)

Television stations

Stations arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

City of license / Market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Years owned	Current status
Huntsville, Alabama	WAAY-TV	31 (32)	2007–2017	ABC affiliate owned by Allen Media Broadcasting
Sarasota, Florida ¹	WWSB	40 (24)	1986–2017	ABC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Tallahassee, Florida	WTXL-TV	27 (27)	2005–2017	ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company

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.

Footnotes

^ Staff (2017-05-01). "Raycom Closes On WWSB And WTXL". TV News Check. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
^ Staff (19 June 2017). "GateHouse Media agrees to buy Courier Times, other Calkins properties". Buck County Courier Times. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
^ Hebbard, D. B. (2017-06-19). "Calkins Media sells its newspaper properties to Ogden Newspapers and GateHouse Media". Talking New Media. Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
^ The Bucks County Courier Times is a sister paper of The Intelligencer and the Burlington County Times.