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Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah. David M. Paxton is president and CEO. The company owns 32 daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, mostly in the southern United States. Daily circulation totals 350,000. Holdings include ''The Paducah Sun'', ''The Herald-Sun'' in Durham, North Carolina, ''The High Point Enterprise'' in High Point, North Carolina, the ''Jonesboro Sun'' in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and the ''Daily Star'' in Hammond, Louisiana and ''The Daily Citizen'' in Searcy, Arkansas. In 1998, the company purchased Nixon Newspapers Inc which included the ''Wabash Plain Dealer'', located in Wabash, Indiana. In 2007, Paxton Media Group purchased three Indiana newspapers: the ''Marion Chronicle-Tribune'' (in July) from the Gannett Foundation; the ''Huntington Herald-Press'' (in May) from the Quayle family; and the ''LaPorte County Herald-Argus'' from Small Newspaper Group (in September). ==History== Paxton Media Group traces it roots to 1896, when a group of investors headed by William F. Paxton launched ''The Evening Sun'' by buying the assets of the failing ''Paducah Standard'' at 214 Broadway. The cost was $8,900, and the men started with $10,000 capital. The newspaper did not make a profit until 1918. In 1929, Paxton's son, Edwin J. Paxton, who had taken over as editor, bought out the rival ''News-Democrat''. After the merger, the newspaper became ''The Sun-Democrat'', and operations were moved to the current location at 408 Kentucky Avenue in 1934. The name changed to ''The Paducah Sun'' in 1978 at the request of Jack Paxton, editor at the time and grandson of Edwin J. Paxton.〔 At 4:20 p.m. May 28, 1957, WPSD television, (the PSD stands for Paducah Sun-Democrat) went on the air as the company-owned television station based in Paducah. It is an NBC affiliate. The company operated only ''The Paducah Sun'' and WPSD-TV until 1989, when it began acquiring other newspapers. 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「Paxton Media Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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