Oxnard Press-Courier

Oxnard Press-Courier
Type Daily
Owner Thomson Newspapers (1967-94)
Brush-Moore Newspapers (1963-67)
George Grimes (1945-63)
Ceased publication June 16, 1994[1]
Headquarters Oxnard, California
United States
Circulation 17,325 (1992)

The Oxnard Press-Courier was a newspaper located in Oxnard, California, United States. It ceased publication in June 1994 after 95 years.[1][2] As of 1992, its daily circulation was 17,325.[3]

George and Eva Grimes purchased the paper in 1945, when it had a circulation of 1,200.[4][5][6]

In 1963, the Brush-Moore Newspapers group bought the paper.[7] In 1967, Brush-Moore sold the paper to Thomson Newspapers as part of a sale of 12 papers, for $72 million, in what was the largest ever newspaper transaction at that time.[8] Thomson owned the paper until it shut down in June 1994, citing a poor economy and a competitive newspaper market in Ventura County.[1] That competition included the Los Angeles Times, who in 1990 began publishing a daily Ventura County edition, replacing a weekly Ventura County section of the paper.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Oxnard Paper to Call It Quits Thursday, Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1994 ("The 95-year-old Oxnard Press-Courier will publish its last edition Thursday, making it the third newspaper to cease publication in Ventura County in the past 1½ years. Citing the state's troubled economy and the county's competitive newspaper market, newspaper officials announced Monday that the Press-Courier could no longer afford to stay in business. Toronto-based Thomson Newspapers, which owns the Press-Courier, is also publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Newspapers in Los Angeles County.")
  2. ^ OXNARD PRESS-COURIER TO CLOSE AFTER 95 YEARS, Los Angeles Daily News, June 14, 1994
  3. ^ New Press-Courier Publisher Arrives, Los Angeles Times, June 2, 1992
  4. ^ Eva Miller Grimes (Obituary), Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 2, 1991 (notes that she and husband George Grimes bought paper in 1945 and grew circulation from 1,200 to 16,000 at time of sale)
  5. ^ Publisher G. G. Grimes Dies at 69, Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1964
  6. ^ Six of Family Work on Staff of Newspaper, Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1948
  7. ^ Ohio Company Buys Oxnard Press-Courier, Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1963
  8. ^ 12 Brush-Moore Newspapers Sold to Thomson, The New York Times, August 26, 1967