Mid-South Management Company
Type | Family-owned |
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Industry | Media |
Founded | 1948 |
Defunct | 2007 |
Fate | Assets acquired by Heartland Publications[1] |
Headquarters | Spartanburg, South Carolina |
Key people | , chairman; , president |
Products | Newspapers |
Website | midsouthmanagement.com |
Mid-South Management Company Inc. was a family-owned, Spartanburg, South Carolina-based publisher of small to medium market newspapers[2] in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. The company was started in 1948 by Phil Buchheit, who was then publisher and operator of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
Daily newspapers[]
- The LaGrange Daily News, LaGrange, Georgia
- The Mount Airy News, Mount Airy, North Carolina
- The Laurinburg Exchange, Laurinburg, North Carolina
- , Union, South Carolina
Non-dailies[]
- , Newberry, South Carolina
- , Pickens, South Carolina
- , Easley, South Carolina
- , Stokes County, North Carolina
- The Jefferson Post, West Jefferson, North Carolina
- , Rural Hall, North Carolina
- The Tribune, Elkin, North Carolina
- The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, North Carolina
- , Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
- The Carroll News, Carroll County, Virginia
- The Thomaston Times, Thomaston, Georgia
Recent changes[]
In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications.[3]
In 2006, , Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to [4]
In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher.[5]
References[]
- ^ Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, Mid-South Management Co. Inc. Sold to Heartland Publications LLC, retrieved April 23, 2017
- ^ Mid-South Management official website Archived 2007-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Association of Free Community Papers newsletter, May 1, 2005 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "FMI Buys Phenix City, Ala. Weekly," Editor & Publisher, August 7, 2006
- ^ Heartland Publications Acquisitions[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- Publishing companies established in 1948
- Companies based in South Carolina
- Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Newspaper companies of the United States
- Companies based in Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Mass media company stubs