Frank E. Gannett
Frank Ernest Gannett (born September 15, 1876 in Bristol , New York ; † December 3, 1957 ) founded the Gannett company in 1906 .
Gannett was born in Bristol, New York and graduated from Cornell University . He was a supporter of the Republican Party . In 1920 he married his wife Caroline Werner.
At the age of 30 he bought his first newspaper, the Elmira Gazette . Six years later, in 1912, he acquired the Ithaca Journal . In 1918, Gannett and his partners moved their corporate headquarters to Rochester, New York, and five years later he bought out his partners and formed the holding company , which then consisted of only six newspapers.
With the advent of radio , Gannett's Rochester Times-Union entered the radio business in 1922. The newspaper founded the radio station WHQ, but the station's success was only moderate and short-lived due to technical problems. The transmission equipment was sold and a little later it went on the air under the callsign WHAM and can be heard on the entire US east coast to this day.
In 1940 he applied for nomination as a presidential candidate, but was beaten by Wendell Willkie .
In the remaining years of his life, he worked on modernizing and expanding his corporate conglomerate of regional newspapers. At the time of his death, after more than 50 years as a newspaper publisher, he owned 22 newspapers, four radio stations and two television stations. Only after his death did the company grow into a national media group .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Frank Gannett. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
- ^ The Rochester Radio Dial: WHAM (AM). Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gannett, Frank E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gannett, Frank Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American media entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bristol , New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1957 |