Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Newspapers of New England |
| Publisher | Murray D. Schwartz |
| Founded | 1849, as Hampden Freeman |
| Ceased publication | January 21, 1993 |
| Headquarters | 120 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040 United States |
| Circulation | 16,300 daily in 1993 |
The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, or T‑T, was an afternoon daily newspaper covering the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States, and adjacent portions of Hampden County and Hampshire County.
Published as a daily since 1882, the newspaper folded in January 1993 after four years of heavy losses. Long owned by the Dwight family, the T‑T's last owner was Newspapers of New England, which had been founded by the Dwights as a holding company for the T‑T and other newspapers it had acquired.
With the departure of the T‑T, Holyoke lost its only newspaper of record. Daily newspaper readers in the city turned to newspapers in nearby cities, which increased their coverage of Holyoke: the Union-News of Springfield, now called The Republican; and the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton.
Founded as Holyoke's first newspaper, the Hampden Freeman, in 1846, the story of the T-T begins when William G. Dwight became part-owner of the paper in 1882. He oversaw the conversion of the weekly, by then called the Holyoke Transcript, into a daily; and in 1926 he completed the acquisition of the Holyoke Telegram daily, lending the combined newspaper the name it would keep until 1993.
Dwight died in 1930, and his wife, Minnie Dwight, became publisher. Their son, also named William Dwight, was named managing editor but he also explored other investments. He founded WHYN radio with Charles DeRose, owner of the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The two also founded WHYN-TV, the Springfield area's second television station, in 1953. They sold the WHYN properties in 1967.
Another of William Dwight's purchases would have a profound impact on the T‑T's future. In 1955 he bought and became co-publisher of the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette. His later purchases of the Concord Monitor and Valley News in New Hampshire would lead to the establishment of Newspapers of New England, the company that eventually decided to close the T‑T.
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