The old Thanet Times newspaper offices which originally hosted the Gazette from 1899. The paper was founded in 1896
The old Thanet Times newspaper offices which originally hosted the Gazette from 1899. The paper was founded in 1896 and ran until 1918 before being acquired and closed by its rival paper, the Isle of Thanet Gazette. The Times was reintroduced in 1958 and moved offices in January 2009. The Thanet Times was a weekly tabloid newspaper for the Isle of Thanet in the north-east corner of Kent and the surrounding area, including the towns of Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs and Sandwich. It was originally founded in 1896 and ran until 1918 before being acquired and closed by the owners of its sole remaining rival at that time, the Isle of Thanet Gazette. It was reintroduced in 1958, giving the town two weekly paid tabloid newspapers. However, it switched to being mostly a freesheet after absorbing an earlier companion weekly freesheet, the Thanet Adscene, in October 2009. In its final months less than ten per cent of the circulation was sold through the news trade. It was published by Kent Regional News & Media, which has been a branch of the Daily Mail & General Trust‘s regional newspaper publishing division, Northcliffe Media, since they bought it from Trinity Mirror in 2007. The editorial offices were in Margate, although they moved in January 2009 from Union Row, where the Gazette had been based since 1899. It was very much a red-top in character; its local nickname was the “Thanet Crimes”. It came out on Tuesdays. An e-edition was also available free, although it wasn’t linked to from the website (which from 2011 onwards was Northcliffe’s portal site for Kent rather than the newspapers’ own web presence). The final issue went out on 2 October 2012, less than a year after an attempt by Northcliffe to sell seven Kent newspapers including the Times to the KM Group. The deal fell through when the Office of Fair Trading decided to refer it to the Competition Commission.
Size: 3744px × 5616px
Location: 11 Broad Street, Margate CT9 1EW, England
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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