Quincy Newspapers Inc.
Type	Private
Founded	1835
Headquarters	Quincy, Illinois, USA
Industry	Television, Radio, Advertising, Broadcasting, Periodicals
Revenue	Unknown
Net income	Unknown
Employees	900+
Website	www.qni.biz

Quincy Newspapers, Inc. (QNI) is a family-owned media company that originated in the newspapers of Quincy, Illinois. The company's history can be traced back to 1835, when the Bounty Land Register was one of only four newspapers in all of Illinois. Over the next century, a number of mergers followed. In 1935, the Quincy Herald-Whig emerged, and it still operates under that name today. The company moved into radio in 1947 and began television broadcasts in 1953. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: Gem City Location in Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois Counties Adams County, Illinois Government  - Mayor John A. Spring Area  - City  14. ... Commercialism redirects here. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... Nickname: Gem City Location in Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois Counties Adams County, Illinois Government  - Mayor John A. Spring Area  - City  14. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... A century (From the Latin cent, one hundred) is one hundred consecutive years. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

History

Thomas A. Oakley is President, treasurer, director, and Chief Executive Officer of QNI.

Ralph M. Oakley is Vice President, director, and assistant secretary of QNI, and Chief Operating Officer of the Broadcast Division of QNI.

The corporation was formed in Quincy on July 1, 1926, as a publishing company upon the consolidation of Quincy Herald, direct descendant of the Illinois Bounty Land Register first published in Quincy in 1835, and the Quincy Whig-Journal, descendant of the Quincy Whig founded in 1838. The Herald-Whig publishes 7 days a week.

The Herald was purchased in 1891 by three men from Rockford, IL, one of whom, Charles L. Miller, had earlier founded the Rockford Daily Register, the first newspaper to achieve a permanent existence there. Miller brought to The Herald his brother-in-law and nephew, respectively, Aaron Burr Oakley and Ray M. Oakley, the first two generations of the Oakleys in the newspaper business in Quincy. Miller spent four years in Quincy, returning to Rockford in 1896 to join Harry M. Johnson in ownership of the Rockford Republic. He retired as editor of the Republic in 1913 and died in 1921.

Two brothers from Decatur, Frank M. Lindsay, Sr. and Arthur O. Lindsay, Sr. bought The Quincy Whig in 1915, with A.O. Lindsay taking up residence in Quincy as president and manager. F.M. Lindsay remained in Decatur with the Decatur Herald and formed an association with another Illinois newspaper family, the Schaubs. In 1920, the Lindsays consolidated The Whig and The Quincy Journal, founded in 1883.

With the consolidation of The Herald and The Whig-Journal in 1928, two Illinois newspaper families, Oakley and Lindsay, were joined in a business association that continues today through succeeding generations.

QNI entered broadcasting in 1947, the year it started Quincy's first commercial FM station, QWDI. The following year QNI purchased Quincy Broadcasting Co. to operate WGEM, the city's second AM station. WQDI then became WGEM-FM.

Quincy Broadcasting produced the Quincy region's first television broadcast on Sept. 4, 1953, on WGEM-TV (NBC). Quincy Broadcasting also operates the Hotel Quincy, which houses all WGEM AM FM TV studios, as a residential/transient hotel.

In 1969, QNI and six other newspaper entities formed American Newspapers Inc., which bought The New Jersey Herald in Newton, NJ, converting the semi-weekly to a daily and Sunday publication in 1970. QNI acquired controlling interest in American Newspapers in 1980 and became sole owner in 1986.

Beginning in the 1970s, QNI began a major expansion into television. WSJV-TV (ABC, now FOX), in South Bend-Elkhart, IN, was acquired in 1974, KROC-TV (now KTTC-TV/NBC) in Rochester, MN, in 1976, WHIS-TV (now WVVA-TV/NBC) in Bluefield, WV, in 1979, and KTIV-TV (NBC) in Sioux City, IA, in 1989. In August 1995, QNI purchased WREX-TV (NBC) in Rockford, Illinois. The Merchant, a weekly shopper in Quincy, IL. was purchased in December of 1995.

In June 2001, QNI purchased from Shockley Communications Corporation the five Wisconsin ABC stations: WKOW - Madison; WAOW - Wausau; WQOW - Eau Claire; WYOW - Eagle River; and WXOW - La Crosse. Also purchased from SCC at the time was ProVideo of Wisconsin, Inc. consisting of a component digital online suite and a fully integrated non-linear online suite in Madison, Wisconsin. Shockley Communcations Corporation is a media outlet that held several television stations in Wisconsin underneath its ownership. ... Quincy Newspapers, Inc. ...

As a part of the Shockley Communications Corporation purchase, KTTC Television, Inc. has a shared services agreement with KXLT-TV, the FOX affiliate in Rochester, MN. KTTC provides all services for KXLT excluding sales, traffic, and programming.

On July 1, 2006 QNI purchased KWWL in Waterloo, Iowa from Raycom Media. KWWL is an affiliate of NBC. The station is the primary NBC affiliate for the northeast quarter of the state of Iowa. The station's headquarters are in Waterloo, Iowa, and they also operate newsrooms in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque.

Television stations

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Location

Corporate offices are housed at The Quincy Herald-Whig, 130 South Fifth Street, Quincy, IL 62306-0906.

Newspapers

• Quincy Herald-Whig, Quincy, Illinois
• New Jersey Herald, Newton, New Jersey

References

• Britni Townsend (December 2001). A "Bounty-full" Beginning: The Quincy Herald-Whig. Accessed May 10, 2004.
• Quincy Newspapers, Inc.
• WGEM, in Quincy, Illinois