Times Community News Acquires La Canada Valley Sun and Crescenta Valley Sun Newspapers

Times Community News Acquires La Canada Valley Sun and Crescenta
Valley Sun Newspapers 


LOS ANGELES, April 7  /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Times announced today
that its Times Community News division has acquired the La Canada Valley Sun
and the Crescenta Valley Sun from Century Group newspapers.

The La Canada Valley Sun serves La Canada Flintridge, Calif., and is
distributed to 10,000 homes and businesses on Thursdays.  The Crescenta Valley
Sun serves La Crescenta, Montrose and northern Glendale, and has a Friday
circulation of 15,000.  Both weekly papers are located near Glendale, where
Times Community News publishes three newspapers.

The Valley Sun newspapers will become part of the Times Community News group,
which publishes six newspapers: The Daily Pilot in Newport Beach/Costa Mesa,
Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, Foothill Leader, Huntington Beach
Independent and Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot.

Will Fleet, publisher of the Glendale News-Press, Foothill Leader and Burbank
Leader, will oversee the Valley Sun newspapers.  "We believe in the foothill
area community, and we are impressed with the distinctly local newspapers that
the Valley Sun staff has built over the years," said Fleet. "We're looking
forward to becoming even more involved in the La Canada and La Crescenta
communities."

Jerry Bean, president and owner of The Century Group, stated, "I agreed to sell
these papers to The Times in part because of its reputation for producing
quality newspapers.  We wouldn't have sold to just anyone."

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Bean purchased the La Canada Valley Sun in 1989 from legendary local editor Joe
DuPlain, who had published the newspaper for 40 years.  Bean launched the
Crescenta Valley Sun in 2002.

The Century Group also publishes seven weekly newspapers in the Inland Southern
California area near Riverside and San Bernardino.  Bean started the company in
1987 after a 20-year career with the Gannett Co.

Times Community News newspapers maintain separate editorial and business staffs
from those of The Times, and focus exclusively on in-depth local coverage of
their respective communities.  The Daily Pilot and Glendale News-Press have won
the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.'s general excellence award in their
category. 

DATASOURCE: Los Angeles Times



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