Glasgow Times
The Glasgow Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Called The Evening Times from 1876, it was rebranded as the Glasgow Times on 4 December 2019.
History
The paper, an evening sister paper of The Herald, was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Nobody Knows Our City Better".Publication of the Evening Times moved to a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in Mitchell Street in 1868. The building is now the Lighthouse |Lighthouse], Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the city.
In 1964, publishers George Outram were bought by Sir [Hugh Fraser, 2nd Baronet|Sir Hugh Fraser]. In 1979, the ownership was acquired by Tiny Rowland's Lonrho.
On 19 July 1980, the paper moved to offices at 195 Albion Street, a black-fronted building modelled after the Black Lubyanka building of the Daily Express in London's Fleet Street. The Albion Street building had previously housed the Scottish Daily News workers' cooperative from May to November 1975.
A management buy-out in May 1992 created Caledonian Newspapers, later purchased by Scottish Television in 1996. After the purchase the TV group renamed itself "Scottish Media Group", which was later shortened to SMG and, in 2008, rebranded as STV Group plc.