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The Daily Oklahoman newspaper was founded in 1894 by Samuel W. Small. Small eventually lost the paper and it was owned by a bank who leased the paper to Charles F. Barrett. R. Q. Blakeney would also run the paper before it was bought by Roy E. Stafford and W. T. Parker in 1900. The paper was taken over in 1903 by Edward K. Gaylord. Gaylord ...
The List of newspapers in Oklahoma lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The list includes information on where the publication is produced, whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, what its circulation is, and who publishes it.
OU Daily, formally known as The Oklahoma Daily News, is the independent, student-produced newspaper at the University of Oklahoma, with a circulation of 6,000. [1] Though it maintains a connection with OU's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the newspaper is not a part of required learning for journalism students at OU.
[1] [2] In 1916, the struggling paper was purchased by Edward K. Gaylord's Oklahoma Publishing Company (OPUBCO) and operated under the name The Oklahoma Times as the evening counterpart to OPUBCO's The Daily Oklahoman until 1984, when it was incorporated into The Daily Oklahoman and ceased publication. [3] [4]
Edward King Gaylord (March 5, 1873 – May 30, 1974), often referred to as E.K. Gaylord, was the owner and publisher of The Daily Oklahoman newspaper (now The Oklahoman), as well as a radio and television entrepreneur.
Edward Lewis Gaylord (May 28, 1919 – April 27, 2003) was an American billionaire businessman, media mogul and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Gaylord Entertainment Company that included The Oklahoman newspaper, Oklahoma Publishing Co., Gaylord Hotels, the Nashville Network TV Channel (later renamed SpikeTV, Spike, and Paramount Network after being sold off); the Grand Ole Opry, and ...
Edith Cherry Johnson (November 11, 1879 – March 11, 1961) was an American journalist who was the society editor for The Daily Oklahoman between 1908 and 1958. For her journalism she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935 and posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1997.
In 1928, WKY was purchased by the Oklahoma Publishing Company, which also owned the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. The price was $5,000 (about $75,000 today). The price was $5,000 (about $75,000 today). The formal opening of the new WKY was set for November 11, 1928, but the station went on the air several days earlier to carry the presidential ...