as nyse hhs predecessor harte hanks newspapers harte hanks communications founded san antonio texas u.s. 1923 founder houston harte and bernard hanks headquarters 9601 mcallister freeway suite 610 san antonio texas u.s. area served worldwide key people karen puckett president & ceo douglas shepard executive vp & cfo services direct and digital marketing number of employees 5 001 10 000 website hartehanks.com harte hanks is an american marketing services company headquartered in uptown san antonio texas . it is a marketing services firm specializing in multi channel marketing solutions . harte hanks offers end to end marketing services including consulting strategic assessment data analytics digital social mobile print direct mail and contact center . contents 1 history 1.1 newspapers 1.2 television and radio 1.2.1 television stations 1.3 other businesses 2 references 3 external links history edit founded by houston harte and bernard hanks 1 in 1923 as harte hanks newspapers and later harte hanks communications the company spent its first 50 years operating newspapers in texas . in 1968 the company relocated from abilene to san antonio . 2 it made its first ipo on march 8 1972 2 later diversifying into television and radio properties . in 1984 the company s managers took it private later going public again in 1993 . 3 in the mid 1990s the company withdrew from the newspaper and broadcasting business and focused solely on direct marketing and shopper publications . 4 newspapers edit harte hanks first newspapers were hanks abilene reporter news and harte s san angelo standard . 5 other early acquisitions in the 1920s and 1930s included the harlingen star corpus christi times big spring herald and paris news . 6 the company incorporated as harte hanks newspapers inc. in 1948 . 7 the company bought two competing newspapers in greenville texas in the mid 1950s consolidating them into the herald banner after two years of fierce rivalry . a court case followed with harte hanks accused of unfair competition . the chain was acquitted of the charges in 1959 . 8 9 in 1962 the company took full ownership of san antonio express news its largest circulation newspaper . the express news was one of the first properties harte hanks sold off however as it began to narrow its focus to smaller newspapers and eventually to direct marketing . rupert murdoch paid 19 million for the express news in 1973 . 6 at the time of the first ipo in 1972 the firm owned properties in 19 markets across six states . 10 the paper expanded outside of texas that year with the purchase of the anderson independent and anderson daily mail of anderson south carolina merging them into the anderson independent mail . by 1980 the company owned 29 daily and 68 weekly newspapers but its fastest growing division was consumer direct marketing which included marketing agencies market research firms and direct mail distributors the future core of today s harte hanks . 6 in 1995 harte hanks sold to community newspaper company its interest in the massachusetts based middlesex news two other dailies and associated weeklies in the western suburbs of boston . 11 it had owned the news since 1972 and bought the news tribune and daily transcript in 1986 . 12 the abilene anderson corpus christi and san angelo papers were among the last harte hanks properties divested sold to e.w. scripps company in may 1997 . 13 scripps spun out its newspaper assets into journal media group in april 2015 . 14 television and radio edit the company made its first foray into other media as early as 1962 when harte hanks bought kens am tv san antonio s cbs radio and television affiliates as part of its acquisition of the express news . 5 harte hanks turned kens from a perennial ratings also ran to the market leader by 1968 . in the 1970s the newspaper dominated company further diversified its holdings by purchasing the waim radio and tv stations in anderson as part of its purchase of the independent and mail as well as television stations in jacksonville florida greensboro north carolina and springfield missouri . in 1978 harte hanks bought radio stations formerly owned by southern broadcasting . in 1980 the company s broadcast holdings were four television stations 11 radio stations and four cable television systems . it sold off most of these assets in the mid 1980s to pay down debt incurred in the leveraged buyout that took the company private . harte hanks continued to hold kens until 1997 when it and the company s remaining newspaper properties were sold to scripps . 6 television stations edit city of license market station channel tv rf years owned current ownership status jacksonville florida wtlv 12 12 1975 88 nbc affiliate owned by tegna inc. springfield branson missouri kytv 3 44 1978 87 nbc affiliate owned by gray television greensboro high point winston salem north carolina wfmy tv 2 51 1976 88 cbs affiliate owned by tegna inc. wghp 8 35 1978 15 fox affiliate owned by tribune broadcasting anderson greenville spartanburg south carolina asheville north carolina waim tv 40 14 1972 78 mynetworktv affiliate wmya tv owned by cunningham broadcasting operated through a lma by sinclair broadcast group san antonio texas kens tv 5 39 1962 97 cbs affiliate owned by tegna inc. other businesses edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message in 2006 harte hanks acquired global address a software company based in the united kingdom that developed international address validation technology . global address was founded by martin turvey and matthew furneaux . furneaux left harte hanks in 2007 and turvey left in 2009 . in 2008 global address was merged into trillium software a division of harte hanks . harte hanks provides customer service technical support for selected products of major companies such as microsoft fedex samsung and apple inc. in 2008 harte hanks acquired mason zimbler an agency that focuses specifically on marketing business and consumer technology in the u.s. and internationally . in 2008 harte hanks acquired strange & dawson a division that focuses on lead generation creative concept and design media planning and buying direct marketing direct response and digital advertising . in 2010 harte hanks acquired information arts a uk based data insight data management and database marketing firm specializing in b2b technology and telecom sectors . citation needed harte hanks was formerly associated with the publication of weekly shopper publications 16 with a circulation at one time of 13 million weekly in 1 100 separate editions of the pennysaver and the flyer in california and florida respectively . 17 18 the company sold the flyer to coda media in 2012 19 having owned it since 1983 . 20 the pennysaver and website pennysaverusa.com a nationwide network of local advertising content online for consumers and businesses 3 were sold to opengate capital in 2013 . 21 harte hanks had owned the publication since 1972 . 22 in 2015 harte hanks acquired san mateo california based digital marketing firm 3q digital . 23 references edit pasiuk l. 2006 vault guide to the top advertising & pr employers vault pederson j. 2004 international directory of company histories volume 63 st. ourcing and offshoring industry almanac 2007 plunkett research limited pederson 2004 p. 186 a b pederson 2004 p. 187 a b pasiuk 2006 p. 80 our history harte hanks inc. accessed january 22 2007 . a b pederson 2004 p. 188 a b c d answers.com harte hanks communications inc. accessed january 26 2007 . diana j. kleiner harte hanks communications from the handbook of texas online . retrieved may 18 2013 . harte hanks communications inc. . international directory of company histories . thomson gale . united states v. harte hanks newspapers . abilene reporter news about us accessed january 25 2007 . middlesex news changing owners . telegram & gazette worcester mass . november 23 1994 . adams jane meredith . harte hanks acquires transcript group . the boston globe march 14 1986 ; four leaving jobs at middlesex news . the boston globe april 9 1982 . sale of arn to scripps complete accessed january 25 2007 . gores paul 1 april 2015 . journal scripps merger creates two closely aligned media companies . milwaukee journal sentinel . retrieved 3 april 2015 . acquired with the purchase of southern broadcasting but had to be sold off to gulf broadcasting in order to comply with fcc duopoly rules of the time . about us official site about our company harte hanks inc. accessed july 1 2010 . plunkett 2007 harte hanks sells the flyer back to original founder . advertisingmiami.com . december 17 2012 . retrieved october 8 2013 . dwight bitikofer . member profile carlos guzman theflyer.com magazine . ifpa.com . retrieved october 8 2013 . opengate capital signs agreement to acquire pennysaver from harte hanks inc. . amy or september 19 2013 . opengate buys weekly shopper publication business from harte hanks . downjones.com . retrieved october 8 2013 . zacks equity research march 17 2015 . harte hanks acquires 3q digital to be accretive in 2015 . finance.yahoo.com . retrieved april 8 2015 . external links edit official website v t e city of san antonio nickname alamo city attractions the alamo alamo cenotaph la antorcha de la amistad basilica of the national shrine of the little flower cathedral of san fernando hemisfair 68 houston street retama park racetrack san antonio zoo tower of the americas tower life building museums artpace blue star contemporary art museum briscoe western art museum casa navarro state historic site fort sam houston museum gallista gas gallery guadalupe cultural arts center guinness world records utsa institute of texan cultures mcnay art museum museo alameda museum of aerospace medicine o. henry house museum ripley 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