Evening Post Industries
Evening Post Industries ' is a privately held American media company based in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It has been led by four generations of the Manigault family.
The company owns The Post and Courier of Charleston, the South's oldest daily newspaper; the Aiken Standard;'' and five other newspapers in the state. Other holdings include White Oak Forestry Company and the Clear Night Group marketing agency.
History
The Evening Post Publishing Company was formed by rice planter Arthur Manigault in 1896 to acquire The Evening Post, Charleston's then-ailing afternoon newspaper. Manigault's son Robert became publisher in 1924. Two years later, he bought Charleston's morning paper, The News & Courier, the oldest daily newspaper in the South.The company launched an international syndication arm, Editors Press Service, in 1933.
When Robert died in 1945, his brother Edward took over; he was in turn succeeded by his son Peter. Peter's son, Pierre, inherited the company upon Peter's death in 2004.
In 2004, the Evening Post Publishing Company sold Editors Press Service to the Universal Press Syndicate, which renamed it Atlantic Syndication.
The company also owned the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, Latin America's oldest English language newspaper, until 2007.
In 2007, the company launched Garden & Gun magazine, which it sold in 2009 to a new firm launched by Pierre Manigault.
In 2013, the company renamed itself Evening Post Industries. In a press release, CEO John Barnwell said, “The name change better reflects our existing diversified holdings and ongoing acquisition strategy in beyond media, while keeping the legacy value of Evening Post."
Broadcast selloff
In October 2018, the company agreed to sell its television-broadcasting subsidiary: Cordillera Communications, a holding company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. 15 of Cordillera's 16 stations were purchased by the E. W. Scripps Company; Quincy Media acquiring KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, because Scripps already owned KGUN-TV. The sale was approved by the FCC on April 5, 2019, and completed on May 1.Cordillera owned:
| City of license / Market | Station | Channel | Years owned | Current status |
| Billings, MT | KTVQ | 2 | 1994–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Bozeman, MT | KBZK | 7 | 1993–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Butte, MT | KXLF-TV | 4 | 1986–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Corpus Christi, TX | KRIS-TV | 6 | 1998–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Corpus Christi, TX | KZTV | 10 | CBS affiliate owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting | |
| Corpus Christi, TX | K22JA-D | 47 | 1998–2019 | Telemundo affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| El Paso, TX | KDBC-TV | 4 | 1974–1986 | CBS affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group |
| Great Falls, MT | KRTV | 3 | 1986–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Great Falls, MT | KTGF-LD | 50 | 2015–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Helena, MT | KXLH-LD | 9 | 1995–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Helena, MT | KTVH-DT | 12 | 2015–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Kalispell, MT | KAJJ-CD | 18 | 1988–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Lafayette, LA | KATC | 3 | 1995–2019 | ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Lexington, KY | WLEX-TV | 18 | 1999–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Missoula, MT | KPAX-TV | 8 | 1986–2019 | CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Nampa–Boise, ID | KIVI-TV | 6 | 1981–2002 | ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Pueblo–Colorado Springs, CO | KOAA-TV | 5 | 1977–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| San Luis Obispo–Santa Barbara, CA | KSBY | 6 | 2004–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company |
| Tucson, AZ | KVOA | 4 | 1993–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by Allen Media Broadcasting |