News-Press NOW is a 24-hour local cable news and weather channel based in St. Joseph, Missouri and serves Buchanan , DeKalb , and Andrew counties. Owned by News-Press & Gazette Company , the channel is based out of the company's corporate headquarters on Edmond Street in downtown Saint Joseph.
10-511: News-Press NOW is one of a handful of flagship properties owned by News-Press & Gazette Company, which also publishes the St. Joseph News-Press and owns local Fox affiliate KNPN-LD , NBC affiliate KNPG-LD , and CBS affiliate KCJO-LD , all four of which also share offices with the channel at News-Press & Gazette's Edmond Street headquarters. It is carried on Suddenlink cable channel 3 and in high definition on digital channel 103 throughout
20-685: A simulcast of the Storm Tracker weather radar during overnight and weekend daytime hours. Channel 3 branded TV stations in the United States St. Joseph News-Press The St. Joseph News-Press is a daily morning newspaper based in St. Joseph, Missouri . It is the flagship publication of the News-Press & Gazette Company , which owns newspapers across northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas , and television and radio stations throughout
30-542: Is known as News-Press NOW. These media properties share the website newspressnow.com. Henry D. Bradley Henry D. Bradley (1893 – December 14, 1973) was a publisher of the St. Joseph News-Press who was the first member of the Bradly family which controls the News-Press & Gazette Company media company. Bradley worked at the Toledo Blade from 1906 to 1923. He worked for Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook at
40-641: The Democratic Gazette ). By 1883, it claimed "a larger circulations than the Daily and Weekly papers in St. Joseph combined." In 1889, it was acquired by Charles M. Palmer , a cohort of William Randolph Hearst . Palmer was a broker for Hearst for many newspapers but would keep the Press . One of its most colorful editors was Christian Rutt . Rutt was said to have originated the concept of Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Rutt sold
50-539: The St. Joseph metropolitan area (including the communities of Maryville , Savannah , Country Club , and Agency ). Since June 2, 2012, it is also rebroadcast as a digital subchannel of KNPN-LD , broadcasting over-the-air on UHF channel 26.3 in 16:9 standard definition widescreen . Originally launched as St. Joe NOW in January 2006, News-Press 3 NOW was sold by News-Press & Gazette Company in April 2011, as part of
60-488: The western United States . It traces its roots to the St. Joseph Gazette , which was founded in 1845 shortly after St. Joseph was founded. The Gazette was the only newspaper to be sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express . The Evening News began publication on May 3, 1879 by J.W. and G.J. Spencer with a note that it would be "devoted to gab, gossip and paid locals." It claimed no political stance (in contrast to
70-659: The idea to the Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph which marketed it at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. In 1903, The St. Joseph Post started publication and was quickly purchased by Palmer and was renamed the St. Joseph News and Press . In 1913, it moved into its headquarters at Edmond and Seventh Streets, where it remains today. Palmer eventually bought the Gazette . In 1939, he brought Henry D. Bradley to run day-to-day operations. After Palmer died, Bradley would buy
80-523: The papers in 1951. It remains in the Bradley family. On June 30, 1988, the Bradleys ceased publication of the Gazette and switched the News-Press to a morning newspaper. The St. Joseph News-Press is part of a converged newsroom publishing content in partnership with their co-owned television stations, Fox affiliate KNPN-LD , NBC affiliate KNPG-LD and CBS affiliate KCJO-LD . This combined news effort
90-471: The sale of NPG Cable, Inc., the company's cable television division that operated cable systems in Missouri , Arizona and California , to Suddenlink Communications for $ 350 million. On March 5, 2012, News-Press & Gazette Company announced that it would re-acquire ownership of News-Press 3 NOW from Suddenlink; the purchase includes production equipment and other resources. All twelve employees were retained in
100-407: The sale, which closed on May 1, 2012. With the repurchase of the channel and the launch of KNPN-LD, News-Press 3 NOW became News-Press NOW. The channel's format changed from a cable-only service that offered a mix of live newscasts and news rebroadcasts exclusive to the channel to one that simulcasts and re-airs KNPN-LD's, KNPG-LD's and KCJO-LD's weekday morning, noon and nightly newscasts, along with
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