American Mirror Co history

By 1905 annual gross revenues topped $1 million.

The two men would run the newspaper until Otis's death in 1917, whereupon Chandler would become president, general manager, and publisher of the Times for three decades.

In 1948 Times Mirror acquired its newsprint supplier, Publishers Paper Company, which was based in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Additionally, the newspaper company co-owned, along with CBS, television station KTTV, The station made its first telecast, the Rose Parade from Pasadena, California in 1949.

In 1960 a period of acquisitions began for Times Mirror as Otis Chandler, grandson of Henry Chandler, succeeded Norman Chandler as the fourth publisher of the Times.

In 1969 the company entered cable television with the purchase of CoAxial Systems Engineering Company in Palos Verdes, California, with a base of 5,700 subscribers and seven cable franchises.

In 1972 the Times Mirror became the largest publicly held publishing company in the United States, based on revenues and net income.

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New York Newsday, which was launched in 1985 to serve the city's Brooklyn and Queens boroughs, continued to lose money.

In 1987 the Times Mirror Co. acquired the magazines Field and Stream, Home Mechanix, Skiing, and Yachting from Diamandis Communications Inc.

In 1997 Willes also became publisher of the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw drastic cuts in personnel. (Willes had earned a reputation for ruthless cost-cutting as vice chairman of General Mills, Inc., where he was known as "The Cereal Killer.")

In 1998 Reed Elsevier would acquire Matthew Bender and the Times Mirror's remaining interest in the joint venture for $1.65 billion.

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