| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Bay Area News Group (1996–2016) |
| Founded | April 4, 1901; 124 years ago (1901-04-04) |
| Ceased publication | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| City | San Mateo, California |
| Country | United States |
| OCLC number | 37552021 |
| Website | mercurynews |
TheSan Mateo County Times was a daily newspaper published by theMedia News Group. The paper is distributed throughoutSan Mateo County, Monday through Saturday. Before being sold in 1996, it had been published for over 100 years as theSan Mateo Times, originally published by Amphlett Publishing.[1]
Amphlett also published a weekly "shopping" newspaper,The San Mateo Post, on Wednesday mornings. TheTimes provided extensive coverage of San Mateo County news and sports (sometimes using high school or college correspondents).
It had one of the first television columnists in theSan Francisco Bay Area, Bob Foster, who covered the birth ofKPIX, San Francisco's first television station, in December 1948. Foster remained on the staff for many years, covering Bay Area television and radio. He was an occasional guest onKGO Radio talk shows.[2]
In 1968, Amphlett acquired several weekly newspapers inSan Bruno,South San Francisco,Pacifica, andDaly City. All operations for these papers were moved to a central facility in South San Francisco.[3]
In 1996, theTimes and the surviving weekly newspapers owned and published by Amphlett were purchased byANG Newspapers (Alameda Newspaper Group), anOakland, California-based subsidiary ofMediaNews Group, a national chain of newspapers and broadcast stations with corporate offices at 101 W. Colfax Avenue,Denver, Colorado. The daily newspaper, known since 1979 asThe Times,[4] was renamed theSan Mateo County Times.
In 2011,Bay Area News Group announced that theSan Mateo Times would publish its last issue on November 1, 2011. From Nov. 2, 2011, subscribers would receive localized versions of theSan Jose Mercury News.[5] The plan was later canceled.[6] In 2016, theSan Mateo Times was merged into theSan Jose Mercury News.[7]
