Cowles Media Company

Cowles Media Company (1935 to 1998) was a newspaper, magazine and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The company operated Cowles Business Media, Cowles Creative Publishing and Cowles Enthusiast Media units. The McClatchy Company purchased Cowles Media in 1998.^[1] McClatchy kept the Star Tribune newspaper, which by then was the primary asset in the $1.4 billion deal, and sold the other business units to Primedia and to a management team.^[2]

Other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Buffalo Courier-Express, the Des Moines Register, the Scottsdale Progress and the Rapid City Journal.

Cowles Media also published Look as Look, Inc. (1937–45), Cowles Magazines (1946–65), and Cowles Communications, Inc. (1965–71).^[3]

John Cowles, Sr.

Mike Cowles

[edit] Television

In 1955, Cowles entered television as majority owner of what is now KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa. Cowles became the station's sole owner shortly after its launch.

Over the years, Cowles acquired several television stations in medium-sized markets. These stations were sold off by the mid-1980s.

**: From 1962 to 1983, Cowles also owned four semi-satellites of KTVH in western and central Kansas--KTVC in Dodge City (now KBSD), KAYS-TV in Hays (now KBSH) and KLOE-TV in Goodland (now KBSL). ***: Cowles owned a majority share of this station when it first signed on and became its sole owner shortly thereafter.

[edit] See also

• Cowles Publishing Company
• King Features Syndicate
• Office of War Information
• Primedia
• Simba Information
• The Des Moines Register

[edit] Notes

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