Stephens Media LLC was a Las Vegas , Nevada , United States, diversified media investment company. It owned stakes in the California Newspapers Partnership and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette .
17-649: The company had been expanding its interactive Internet business, operating online sites for its newspapers and portal sites like LasVegas.com, which is licensed to Greenspun Media Group . The company is also a partner in the California Newspapers Partnership with MediaNews and Gannett. The company also formed Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC in November 2009, a joint venture with WEHCO Media Inc. , in Arkansas. On November 28, 2010, Stephens Media Iowa, LLC,
34-579: A radio broadcasting company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2010, Stephens Media contracted with the litigation firm Righthaven LLC , giving it the power to enforce the company's copyrights when online violators go beyond the bounds of fair use. More than 141 lawsuits have been filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas since mid-March. In a column published in the RJ shortly after the lawsuits began, publisher Sherman Frederick, said
51-620: A subsidiary of Stephens Media, acquired several newspapers, including the Ames Tribune , Boone News-Republican , Dallas County News , Nevada Journal , Ames About People & Advertiser , Tri-County Times , and Algona Upper Des Moines from Midlands Newspapers Inc., a subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company. In August, 2011, the Algona Upper Des Moines was sold to Hallmark Media. In February 2015, Stephens Media
68-734: Is an acronym for Walter E. Hussman Company. The company publishes 10 daily newspapers serving three states, as well as eight English-language nondaily newspapers and two Spanish-language publications. They include the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , the Texarkana Gazette , and the Chattanooga Times Free Press . Among the smaller papers in Arkansas are the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record , The Camden News ,
85-598: Is an independent company and was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation . Headquartered in Henderson , Nevada , the group has over 60 years experience in the Las Vegas Valley . Beginning with the Las Vegas Sun newspaper in 1950, the company has grown to more than 30 publications and a total distribution exceeding 27 million magazines and newspapers. In 2007, The Greenspun Group acquired Niche Media, which
102-911: Is now known as KAMD-FM , owned by Radio Works Inc. and Jay W. Bunyard. In March 2008, WEHCO announced its purchase of three papers in Missouri: the Jefferson City News Tribune , the Fulton Sun (both dailies) and the California Democrat (a weekly). In 2009, WEHCO merged its Northwest Arkansas media interests with Stephens Media to form the joint venture Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. WEHCO acquired Stephens' half in 2016. In August 2010, WEHCO and Righthaven LLC (a Las Vegas, Nevada based law firm) joined into an agreement for Righthaven to sue bloggers on WEHCO's behalf for copyright violations. This United States media company article
119-1420: The Magnolia Banner-News , and the El Dorado News-Times . The company also operates cable television systems in Arkansas under the WEHCO Video division - Pine Bluff Cable TV in Pine Bluff, Resort TV Cable in Hot Springs, Cam-Tel Company in Camden, Hope Community TV in Hope, Prescott Video in Prescott, White County Video in Searcy, Augusta Video in Augusta (Woodruff County) and East Arkansas Video in Forrest City. In Texas - Longview Cable TV in Longview and Kilgore Video in Kilgore, Texas . Also, WEHCO Video holdings include Vicksburg Video in Vicksburg, MS and Tahlequah Cable TV in Tahlequah, OK. In years past,
136-786: The Stephens Media copyrights by Righthaven was being closely watched by other publishers, as is the debate it has generated. Critics of the relatively new practice have coined it ' copyright trolling ', and argue that the purpose of such enforcement is to make a profit. In the Poynter article, Stephens Media general counsel Mark Hinueber says the goal is to make sure the company's intellectual rights are protected. "We were seeing our entire work product in some stories just being right-clicked and cut and pasted into blogs, where people were selling Google ads around them and making money." The Las Vegas Sun has been thoroughly documenting Righthaven's activities and
153-482: The U.S. Justice Department, and a new Arkansas limited liability company, Northwest Arkansas Newspaper LLC , was formed. Stephens Media sold its interest in the joint venture to WEHCO on May 5, 2016, which then assumed all control of operations of the newspapers in the joint venture. Newspapers in the joint venture include: Arkansas Iowa Nevada North Carolina Oklahoma Texas Tennessee Greenspun Media Group The Greenspun Media Group
170-655: The best of their ability. Righthaven's lawsuits came under increasing judicial scrutiny, which led to Righthaven being found in June 2011 to lack standing to sue for alleged infringement of copyrighted material to which it holds only a limited license, as such a license does not confer the right to sue for infringement. Sanctions against Righthaven and its attorney, Steven A. Gibson, of Nevada law firm Dickinson Wright, are currently being contemplated by one judge. Righthaven later had its assets seized to pay judgments levied against it in lawsuits it filed against those whom it said infringed on
187-463: The company held several radio stations and a TV station. They included KCMC -AM (Texarkana, TX), KTAL-FM 98.1 (Texarkana, TX - Shreveport, LA), KTAL-TV (NBC) Channel 6 (Texarkana, TX - Shreveport, LA). KCMC and KTAL-TV and FM continue to operate under different owners today. WEHCO Media also owned KAMD-910 AM and KWEH-97.1 FM in Camden, AR. KWEH stood for the owners initials Walter E. Hussman). KAMD ceased broadcasting on August 31, 1995, and KWEH-FM
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#1733085062948204-595: The company was sold to the Stephens family of Arkansas, known for their Little Rock investment banking business Stephens Inc. Some of Donrey's properties were sold off, and the company moved its headquarters to Las Vegas , Nevada , home of its largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal . The company was renamed Stephens Media Group in 2002. In June 2006, the company became known as Stephens Media LLC. The company has no connection with Stephens Media Group ,
221-542: The copyrights of clients. As a result, copyrights which had been "sold" by Stephens to Righthaven were "sold back" to Stephens for $ 80,000 to pay legal fees. In September 2009, Stephens Media and WEHCO Media Inc. , owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , announced plans to combine their newspaper operations in Northwest Arkansas and operate as a single company. The venture was approved in November 2009 by
238-456: The primary goal with the partnership with Righthaven was to deter theft of the company's copyrighted materials. He said if the company was successful, he hoped Righthaven would find other media clients. In late August, WEHCO Media, which owns the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga Times Free Press , signed on with the firm. MediaNews Group has also used Righthaven to file a copyright infringement suit. The aggressive enforcement of
255-589: The response. The Sun ’s outside law firm, Lewis and Roca, is defending several of the Righthaven suits. Targets of the Righthaven lawsuits included bloggers, political forums, major political parties, and several of the newspaper's own sources including NORML , DailyPaul .com, InfoWars , Free Republic , and others. On August 25, 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that they will make efforts to assist Righthaven LLC defendants to
272-482: Was founded in 1992 by Jason Binn . Niche Media was sold in 2014. WEHCO Media WEHCO Media, Inc. , based in Little Rock, AR is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers , cable television systems, and internet service. Walter E. Hussman Jr. (born 1947), is the president. Hussmann is the grandson of Clyde E. Palmer , whose media holdings formed the basis of WEHCO Media. WEHCO
289-456: Was purchased by GateHouse Media for $ 102.8 million. In December 2015, GateHouse sold the Las Vegas Review-Journal , the Stephens group's largest paper, to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson for $ 140 million. The company was called Donrey Media Group , which was founded by Arkansas media mogul Donald W. Reynolds and based in Fort Smith, Arkansas . After Reynolds died in 1993 at the age of 86,
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