News-Press & Gazette Company


The News-Press & Gazette Company is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley, Eric Bradley and Kit Bradley serving on its board of directors. All are descendants of family patriarch Henry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley, Sr.
News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, 15 radio and television stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and the western United States for their broadcasting properties.

History

The company traces it roots back to the St. Joseph Gazette which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into the Old West along the Oregon Trail and California Trail. It was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express. The Gazette eventually merged with the News-Press by publisher Charles M. Palmer. When Palmer died in 1949, Henry D. Bradley was co-publisher of both papers starting in 1939 and bought them outright in 1951.
The Gazette ceased publication in 1988 when its sister, the afternoon News-Press, transitioned into a morning newspaper; however, the family kept the "Gazette" and "G" in the company name. The Bradley family expanded the focus by forming local cable television operator St. Joseph Cablevision in 1965. News-Press & Gazette expanded into broadcast television with the 1995 purchase of KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas; this expansion continued into the 2000s with the launch of a 24-hour cable-only news channel for St. Joseph, St. Joe NOW, along with News-Press & Gazette's acquisition of several full-power and low-power television stations.
In 2011, the Bradley family sold the cable division, which by that time expanded its service area to parts of California and Arizona under the name NPG Cable, to Suddenlink Communications. On March 19, 2012, News-Press & Gazette announced it would establish a low-power television station in St. Joseph that would serve as the company's television flagship and the first broadcast station that the company built and signed on; it would be an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station was created using the K26LV-D station license ; it launched on June 2, 2012, as KNPN-LD. On July 25, 2012, NPG announced an agreement to purchase ABC affiliate KMIZ and Fox affiliate, KQFX-LD from JW Broadcasting. The deal was consummated on November 1.

Major assets

Print publications

St. Joseph, Missouri area

Television stations owned and/or operated by News-Press & Gazette Company are a mix of full-power and low-power stations, most of which carry main channel affiliations with the Big Four television networks. Its stations also carry affiliations with The CW and Spanish-language network Telemundo, via subchannel-only affiliations or affiliations with separately licensed low-power stations that are rebroadcast as subchannels on its full-power stations in the respective markets.
Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.
Notes:
City of license / MarketStationChannel
TV 		Owned SinceAffiliation
El Centro, California - Yuma, ArizonaKECY-TV9 2008Fox/MyNetworkTV
ABC
The CW
Telemundo
El Centro, California - Yuma, ArizonaKYMA-DT 113 2014CBS
NBC
El Centro, California - Yuma, ArizonaKESE-LP35 /2008Telemundo
Monterey - Salinas, CaliforniaKMUV-LP23 2013Telemundo
Monterey - Salinas, CaliforniaKION-TV46 2013CBS
The CW
Palm Springs - Indio, CaliforniaKCWQ-LD **2 2006The CW
Palm Springs - Indio, CaliforniaKYAV-LD12 2012Independent
Palm Springs - Indio, CaliforniaKUNA-LP15 /1997Telemundo
Palm Springs - Indio, CaliforniaKDFX-CD33 2008Fox
Palm Springs - Indio, CaliforniaKPSP-CD38 2012CBS
Palm Springs - Indio, CaliforniaKESQ-TV42 1996ABC
Santa Barbara - Santa Maria -
San Luis Obispo, California		KEYT-TV3 2012ABC
MyNetworkTV
Bounce TV
Santa Barbara - Santa Maria -
San Luis Obispo, California		KCOY-TV 212 2013CBS
Santa Barbara - Santa Maria -
San Luis Obispo, California		KKFX-CD24 2013Fox
Colorado Springs, ColoradoKRDO-TV13 2006ABC
Telemundo
Idaho Falls - Pocatello, IdahoKIFI-TV8 2005ABC
Telemundo
The CW
Idaho Falls - Pocatello, IdahoKIDK 23 2011CBS
Fox/MyNetworkTV
Idaho Falls - Pocatello, IdahoKXPI-LD34 2011Fox/MyNetworkTV
Columbia - Jefferson City, MissouriKMIZ17 2012ABC
MeTV
MyNetworkTV
Columbia - Jefferson City, MissouriKQFX-LD22 2012Fox
St. Joseph, MissouriKNPG-LD **21 2012NBC
The CW
Telemundo
Bounce TV
St. Joseph, MissouriKNPN-LD **26 2012Fox
CBS
News-Press NOW
St. Joseph, MissouriKCJO-LD **30 2014CBS
St. Joseph, MissouriNews-Press NOW **3 / 26.32012 3
2007NBC
The CW
Fox
Bend, OregonKFXO-CD39 2007Fox
Bend, OregonKQRE-LD20 2007Telemundo
El Paso, Texas - Las Cruces, New MexicoKVIA-TV7 1995ABC
The CW
Weather
Azteca América
El Paso, Texas - Las Cruces, New MexicoK22NM-D 44 UnknownNBC

Other notes:
City of License/MarketStationOwned sinceCurrent format
Colorado Springs, ColoradoKRDO 12402006News/talk/information
Colorado Springs, ColoradoKRDO-FM 105.52015News/talk/information
Palm Springs, CaliforniaKESQ 1400UnknownSpanish religious music
Palm Springs, CaliforniaKUNA 96.7UnknownRegional Mexican

Former assets

Print publication

Former publications
PublicationCity
Louisburg HeraldLouisburg, Kansas
Osawatomie GraphicOsawatomie, Kansas
Johnson County SunOverland Park, Kansas
Kansas City Nursing NewsOverland Park, Kansas
Kearney CourierKearney, Missouri
Liberty TribuneLiberty, Missouri
Smithville HeraldSmithville, Missouri
Read It Free - Northwest MissouriSt. Joseph, Missouri

Television

Former stations

Notes:
NPG owned cable systems under the name NPG Cable, Inc.. On November 29, 2010, NPG announced that it had agreed to sell all of its cable systems to Suddenlink Communications for $350 million; the acquisition was closed on April 1, 2011. NPG Cable systems operated in the following communities: