The publishing company also purchased radio station WSAZ during this time and in 1949 started one of the nation’s first TV stations, WSAZ-TV, Channel 3. Gideon died in 1950 and Long in 1958 at the age of 95.
Both men were publishers until their deaths. The mechanical and business operations were combined while the two news staffs operated independently. The Herald-Dispatch built a new home just a few doors down.Īfter a brief rivalry, the two publishers announced a merger of the two organizations as the Huntington Publishing Co., with Long as chairman and Gideon as president. Then in 1924, Colonel Long bought the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street to erect a building for his paper. When it and the Herald merged in 1909, a stock company owned the newspaper until Dave Gideon became sole owner in 1919. Eighteen months later he sold it and bought the Advertiser. In 1893, Joseph Harvey Long, a young printer from Pennsylvania by way of Wheeling, arrived in Huntington to buy the Herald, which had begun publication in 1890. It became a daily publication as the Advertiser in 1889.
The Independent soon merged with the Cabell Press, and the resulting publication was named the Weekly Advertiser. Chase in 1871, the same year rail tycoon Collis P. The first of these was the Independent, moved from Winfield to Huntington by O. It began in 1909 with the merger of the Herald and the Huntington Dispatch, and descends from the city’s early newspapers. The Herald-Dispatch, the only daily newspaper in Huntington since 1979, is published each morning seven days a week.
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