The July 27, 2005 front page of The Roanoke Times |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Landmark Media Enterprises |
| Publisher | Debbie Meade |
| Editor | Carole Tarrant |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Headquarters | 201 West Campbell Avenue Roanoke, Virginia 24010-2491 United States |
| Circulation | 97,000 Morning 106,000 Sunday[1] |
| Official website | roanoke.com |
The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. It is published by Landmark Media Enterprises. The Roanoke Times has an office in Richmond, Virginia, and maintains a bureau in Christiansburg, covering the eastern New River Valley and Virginia Tech.
According to Scarborough’s “Ranker Report,” produced every six months, The Roanoke Times ranks first in the country in terms of percentage of adults reading a newspaper on weekdays in that newspaper's coverage area.
On January 3, 2008, it was reported that the family-owned Landmark Communications, parent company of the Times, may be for sale.[2] A subsequent sale by Landmark Communications of its wildly successful Weather Channel gave rise to reports that the rest of the parent company of The Roanoke Times might be dismembered.
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Started in the late 1800s, earlier paper names included Big Lick, Roanoke Leader 1882 -1886 "Roanoke Times" started 1889, "Roanoke Evening News" 1903 - 1912 name changed to "Roanoke World News" 1913 - 1991 From 1991[3], the newspaper was known as The Roanoke Times & World-News. Prior to 1991, the morning Roanoke Times and the afternoon Roanoke World-News published separate editions.
As the major daily newspaper for Roanoke and much of Southwest Virginia, The Roanoke Times has extensively covered news events from the area that have gained national media exposure. Some examples include:
The Roanoke Times also publishes The New River Valley Current, a daily insert to the Roanoke Times distributed in the New River Valley communities of Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Montgomery County, Virginia.
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