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The Standard was created by William R. Givens in 1907, when he acquired the News and Times, which had been an amalgamation of the Kingston News and Evening Times in 1903. The two men amalgamated the papers on 1 December 1926, creating the Whig-Standard. The word "Kingston" was dropped from the name in 1973, but was reinstated in the early 1990s.
The News is believed to have started in 1839, and is listed as having united with the Kingston Chronicle & Gazette to become the Chronicle and News in 1847. The earliest known proprietor was Samuel Rowland in 1851-1852, who had purchased the Chronicle and Gazette after owner James Macfarlane’s death. Samuel was a clerk for the courts in ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard. Known for. Society for International Hockey Research, International Hockey Hall of Fame. John Walter " Bill " Fitsell (July 25, 1923 – December 3, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, writer and historian. He was a columnist for The Kingston Whig-Standard from 1961 to 1993, and was the founding president of the Society ...
He was a member of the newsroom management team of the Kingston Whig-Standard daily newspaper between 1980 and 2007. Earlier in his career, he was sent on assignments in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Romania, Ethiopia, the Amazon River, the Caribbean Islands, England, and other European and African countries.
The Scotsman Digital Archive 1817–2002 (Pay / Free with Athens account) The Evening Times (1914–1990) (Glasgow) via Google News Archive. The Glasgow Herald (1806–1990) via Google News Archive. Word on the Street 1650–1910 almost 1,800 Scottish broadsides at National Library of Scotland Free.
The Queen's University campus station, CFRC-FM, is one of the oldest stations in the world, having been founded in 1922. [1][2] This station served as a commercial outlet until the establishment of CKWS-AM (now CKWS-FM) in 1942. Kingston's two legacy AM frequencies, 960 kHz (CKWS) and 1380 kHz (CKLC) are now dark after both stations moved to ...
Broadcasting on 960 AM, CKWS was owned by Allied Broadcasting, a partnership of Roy Thomson and Rupert Davies, owner of the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper. The call letters were derived from the newspaper's name, as was common at the time. FM sister station CKWS-FM (now CFMK-FM) signed on in 1947 (originally as CKWR-FM), and CKWS-TV launched ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard: ON: Kingston: Postmedia: 114,196 Tue, Thu–Sat ... Ming Pao Daily News; Asian Pacific Post; Today Daily News (defunct) Maandblad de Krant;