The Salisbury Daily Times

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The (Salisbury) Daily Times is a morning daily English-language broadsheet publication based in Salisbury, Maryland. It has been a Gannett publication since 2002.

The paper began publication in 1886 as The Wicomico News, a weekly. On 3 December 1923, it became a daily and changed its name to The Salisbury Times. It merged with a related publication, The Sunday Times, to become The Daily Times on 22 October, 1967. It became a morning publication on 2 October, 1989.

In addition to the daily paper, special and seasonal publications and special inserts, The Daily Times, Inc., is responsible for the publication of an assortment of associated regional weekly papers (see below). The Times and its associated broadsheets and tabloids were branded the Strategic Marketing Group in 2001, and rebranded as the Delmarva Media Group in 2006. The DMG serves a readership that covers Sussex County, Delaware; Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset Counties in Maryland; and Northampton and Accomack Counties in Virginia.

[edit] Publications in the Delmarva Media Group

• The Chincoteague Beacon
• The Daily Times
• The Delaware Beachcomber
• The Delaware Coast Press
• The Delaware Wave
• The Eastern Shore News
• The Ocean Pines Independent
• The Maryland Beachcomber
• The Somerset Herald
• The Virginia Beachcomber
• The Worcester County Times

[edit] Defunct publications (merged with other extant publications)

• The Maryland Times-Press
• The Worcester County Messenger

[edit] External link

DelmarvaNow.com, the internet publication of The Daily Times and The Delmarva Media Group.