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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1845 (whenSt. Joseph Gazette was founded) |
| Headquarters | 825 Edmond Street,, |
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| Owner | Bradley family |
| Website | www |
TheNews-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is an American media company based inSt. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley (retired), Eric Bradley, and Kit Bradley serving on its board of directors. All are descendants of family patriarchHenry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley Sr.
News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers inMissouri andKansas, radio and television stations inCalifornia,Idaho,Oregon,Colorado,Arizona,Missouri andTexas. The NPG group generally concentrates on theKansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and thewestern United States for their broadcasting properties. Many of News-Press & Gazette's television properties are top rated stations in their respective market.
The company traces it roots back to theSt. Joseph Gazette which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into theOld West along theOregon Trail andCalifornia Trail. It was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of thePony Express. TheGazette eventually merged with theNews-Press by publisherCharles M. Palmer. When Palmer died in 1949, Henry D. Bradley was co-publisher of both papers starting in 1939 and bought them outright in 1951.
TheGazette ceased publication in 1988 when its sister, the afternoonNews-Press, transitioned into a morning newspaper; however, the family kept the "Gazette" and "G" in the company name. The Bradley family expanded the focus by forming local cable television operator St. Joseph Cablevision in 1965. News-Press & Gazette expanded into broadcast television with the 1976 with purchase ofWSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia. They would later acquireKAAL-TV in Austin, Minnesota in 1980; WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi in 1983;KSFY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1985 (and selling off KAAL-TV in the same year);WECT in Wilmington, North Carolina; signing on WJTV satellite stationWHLT, Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1987; and acquiringKOLD-TV Tucson, Arizona in 1989. In 1993 NPG would sell off their first group of stations to other companies, but would rebuild its TV portfolio starting withKVIA-TV inEl Paso, Texas. This expansion continued into the 2000s with the launch of a 24-hourcable-only news channel for St. Joseph,News-Press NOW, along with News-Press & Gazette's acquisition of several full-power andlow-power television stations; includingKESQ-TV Palm Springs, California (and radio stationsKESQ (AM) andKUNA-FM);KIFI-TV Idaho Falls, Idaho;KRDO-TV Colorado Springs, Colorado (and radio stationsKRDO (AM) andKRDO-FM);KTVZ inBend, Oregon;KECY-TV inEl Centro, California;KEYT-TV Santa Barbara, California; andKION-TV Monterey - Salinas, California.
In 2011, the Bradley family sold the cable division, which by that time expanded its service area to parts of California and Arizona under the name NPG Cable, toSuddenlink Communications.[1] On March 19, 2012, News-Press & Gazette announced it would establish a low-power television station in St. Joseph that would serve as the company's television flagship and the first broadcast station that the company built and signed on; it would be an affiliate of theFox Broadcasting Company (with subchannel-only affiliations withThe CW andTelemundo). The station was created using theK26LV-D station license (which it acquired, along withK16KF-D, fromSunrise, Florida-basedDTV America 1, LLC on March 14 of that year);[2][3] it launched on June 2, 2012, asKNPN-LD.[4] On July 25, 2012, NPG announced an agreement to purchase ABC affiliateKMIZ and Fox affiliate,KQFX-LD from JW Broadcasting.[5] The deal was consummated on November 1.
In October 2020, NPG sold theDaily Star-Journal to Phillips Media Group, owner of theSedalia Democrat. NPG had owned the paper since 2007 and after the sale its name was changed to theWarrensburg Star-Journal.[6][7]
In August 2023, NPG sold its commercial printing facility in St. Joseph, Missouri, and all of its newspapers (excluding theSt. Joseph News-Press) toCherryRoad Media. The sale included three Kansas papers: theMiami County Republic, theAtchison Globeand theHiawatha World; and two papers based in Liberty, Missouri: theCourier-Tribune and theGladstone Dispatch.[8][9]
In July 2025, NPG announced a partnership with AI monetization platform Dappier to power AI copilots and make its news coverage available across AI-native environments.[10]
Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and bycity of license. In all, NPG owns or operates 28 television properties, nearly all in the western United States.
| City of license /Market | Station | Channel | Owned since | Affiliation |
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| El Centro, CA–Yuma, AZ | KECY-TV | 9 | 2008 | |
| KYMA-DT | 11, 13 | 2014[a] | ||
| KESE-LD | 35 | 2008 | Telemundo | |
| Monterey–Salinas, CA | KMUV-LD | 23 | 2013 | Telemundo |
| KCBA | 35 | 2021[b] | The CW | |
| KION-TV | 46 | 2013 |
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| Palm Springs–Indio, CA | KCWQ-LD ** | 2 | 2006 | The CW |
| KYAV-LD | 12 | 2012 | Independent | |
| KUNA-LD | 15 | 1997 | Telemundo | |
| KDFX-CD | 33 | 2008 | Fox | |
| KPSP-CD | 38 | 2012 | CBS | |
| KESQ-TV | 42 | 1996 | ABC | |
| Santa Barbara–Santa Maria–San Luis Obispo, CA | KEYT-TV | 3 | 2012 |
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| KCOY-TV | 12 | 2013[b] |
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| KKFX-CD | 24 | 2013 | Fox | |
| Colorado Springs, CO | KRDO-TV | 13 | 2006 | ABC |
| KTLO-LD | 46 | 2008 | Telemundo | |
| Idaho Falls -Pocatello, ID | KIFI-TV | 8 | 2005 |
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| KIDK | 3 | 2011[b] |
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| KXPI-LD | 34 | 2011 | Fox/MyTV | |
| Columbia–Jefferson City, MO | KMIZ | 17 | 2012 |
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| KQFX-LD | 22 | 2012 | Fox | |
| St. Joseph, MO | KNPG-CD ** | 21 | 2012 |
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| KNPN-CD ** | 26 | 2012 |
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| KCJO-CD ** | 30 | 2014 | CBS | |
| Bend, OR | KTVZ | 21 | 2007 |
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| KFXO-CD | 39 | 2007 | Fox | |
| KQRE-LD | 20 | 2007 | Telemundo | |
| El Paso, TX–Las Cruces, NM | KVIA-TV | 7 | 1995 |
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| K22NM-D | 4 | [c] | NBC |
| AM Station | FM Station |
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| City of license / Market | Station | Owned since | Current format |
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| Colorado Springs, CO | KRDO 1240 | 2006 | Talk radio |
| KRDO-FM 105.5 | 2015[d] | Talk radio | |
| Palm Springs, CA | KUNA-FM 96.7 | 1997 | Regional Mexican |
| City of license / Market | Station | Channel | Years owned | Current status |
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| Tucson, AZ | KOLD-TV | 13 | 1989–1993 | CBS affiliate owned byGray Media |
| Yuma, Arizona | KYMA-DT | 11 | 2014–2020[f] | Defunct, license surrendered in 2020 |
| Grand Junction, CO | KJCT | 8 | 2006–2013 | Court TV affiliateKLML on channel 20, owned by Ventura Broadcasting |
| KKHD-LP | 20 | 2007–2013 | ABC affiliateKJCT-LP on channel 8, owned by Gray Media | |
| Savannah, GA | WSAV-TV | 3 | 1976–1993 | NBC affiliate owned byNexstar Media Group |
| Austin–Rochester, MN | KAAL-TV | 6 | 1980–1985 | ABC affiliate owned byHubbard Broadcasting |
| Jackson, MS | WJTV | 12 | 1983–1993 | CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group |
| Hattiesburg, MS | WHLT **[g] | 22 | 1987–1993 | CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group |
| Wilmington, NC | WECT | 6 | 1986–1993 | NBC affiliate owned by Gray Media |
| Sioux Falls, SD | KSFY-TV | 13 | 1985–1993 | ABC affiliate owned by Gray Media |
| City of license / Market | Station | Years owned | Current status |
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| Indio–Palm Springs, CA | KESQ 1400 | 1997–2023 | Defunct; went silent in 2022 |
NPG ownedcable systems under the nameNPG Cable, Inc.. On November 29, 2010, NPG announced that it had agreed to sell all of its cable systems toSuddenlink Communications for $350 million; the acquisition was closed on April 1, 2011.[1][15] NPG Cable systems operated in the following communities:[16]