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The News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley (retired), Eric Bradley and Kit Bradley serving on its Board of Directors. All are descendants of family patriarch Henry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley, Sr. News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, 15 radio and television stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and the western United States for their broadcasting properties. ==History== The company traces it roots back to the ''St. Joseph Gazette'' which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into the Old West along the Oregon Trail and California Trail. It was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express. The ''Gazette'' eventually merged with the ''News-Press'' by publisher Charles M. Palmer. When Palmer died in 1949, Henry D. Bradley was co-publisher of both papers starting in 1939 and bought them outright in 1951. The ''Gazette'' ceased publication in 1988 when its sister, the afternoon ''News-Press'', transitioned into a morning newspaper; however, the family kept the "Gazette" and "G" in the company name. The Bradley family expanded the focus by forming local cable television operator St. Joseph Cablevision in 1965. News-Press & Gazette expanded into broadcast television with the 1995 purchase of KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas; this expansion continued into the 2000s with the launch of a 24-hour cable-only news channel for St. Joseph, St. Joe NOW, along with News-Press & Gazette's acquisition of several full-power and low-power television stations (such as KECY-TV in El Centro, California, KJCT in Grand Junction, Colorado and KTVZ in Bend, Oregon). In 2011, the Bradley family sold the cable division, which by that time expanded its service area to parts of California and Arizona under the name NPG Cable, to Suddenlink Communications.〔(Cablevision announces sale ), ''St. Joseph News-Press'', November 29, 2010.〕 On March 19, 2012, News-Press & Gazette announced it would establish a low-power television station in St. Joseph that would serve as the company's television flagship and the first broadcast station that the company built and signed on; it would be an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company (with subchannel-only affiliations with The CW and Telemundo). The station was created using the K26LV-D station license (which it acquired, along with K16KF-D, from Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America 1, LLC on March 14 of that year);〔(FCC document for transfer of K16KF-D and K26LV-D ), March 14, 2012.〕〔(Fox Station Coming to St. Joseph, Mo. ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', March 20, 2012.〕 it launched on June 2, 2012 as KNPN-LD.〔(Fox station to debut on June 2 ), ''St. Joseph News-Press'', May 17, 2012.〕 On July 25, 2012, NPG announced an agreement to purchase ABC affiliate KMIZ and FOX affiliate, KQFX-LD from JW Broadcasting.〔http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/61007/npg-buys-abc-affil-in-columbia-mo〕 The deal was consummated on November 1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「News-Press & Gazette Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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