Timeline: A brief history of Oklahoma Gazette

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Ashley Parks

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(Ashley Parks)

Our first issue, printed Oct. 15, 1979, by publisher Bill Bleakley, had a circulation of 2,000 copies. Today, Oklahoma Gazette is still owned and run by Bleakley. It is the largest independent, Oklahoma-owned newspaper in the state with a weekly readership of more than 134,000 and a cume readership of 206,000. It’s available (and still free) across the metro.

MORE 35TH ANNIVERSARY COVERAGE: •  OKC, OKG grew together as paper chronicled city’s revival. •  Timeline: A brief history of Oklahoma Gazette. •  Reader response: What you love most about OKG. •  Leaders share Gazette memories. •  OKG Eat: Practice makes perfect! •  Chef Kurt Fleischfresser’s curiosity helped establish city’s love of localized menus. •  OKG arts groups have persisted, prospered for decades. •  As OKG grew, so did OKC's performing arts scene. •  Oklahoma music scene is still a work in progress.

 

(Ashley Parks)

(Ashley Parks)

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