Stauffer Communications
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Stauffer Communications was a corporation which until 1995 owned many media and other companies in Topeka, Kansas including the Topeka State Journal and WIBW-AM-FM-TV.
[edit] History:
Oscar Stauffer founded Stauffer Publications. This later become known as Stauffer Communications and was set up to oversee Stauffer newspapers and broadcasting in Topeka, Kansas, from 1977 to 1995, In 1957, Stauffer Publications, owner of the Topeka State Journal, bought WIBW-AM-FM-TV which remained the flagships of Stauffer until 1995. It then merged with Morris Communications Corporation of Augusta, Georgia. As a condition of the sale, Morris had to sell Stauffer's television holdings. Most of the former Stauffer television holdings, including WIBW-TV, were sold to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996.
Stauffer Communications was bought for US$275m, and Morris sold off all of Stauffer magazines, TV stations, insurance and alarm operations.
