Holyoke Transcript-Telegram

Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
A 1986 daily issue of the Transcript-Telegram
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Newspapers of New England
PublisherMurray D. Schwartz
FoundedSeptember 1, 1849; 175 years ago (1849-09-01) (as Hampden Freeman)
Ceased publicationJanuary 21, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-01-21)
Headquarters120 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040 United States
Circulation16,300 daily in 1993[1]
OCLC number20551327

The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, or T‑T, was an afternoon daily newspaper covering the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States, and adjacent portions of Hampden County and Hampshire County.

Published as a daily since 1882, after four years of heavy losses the newspaper ceased publication in January 1993; at the time it was one of the longest running Massachusetts papers to fold, two decades longer than the Boston Post. Long owned by the Dwight family, the T-T's last owner was Newspapers of New England, which had been founded by the Dwights as a holding company for the T-T and other newspapers it had acquired.

With the departure of the T-T, Holyoke lost its only newspaper of record. Daily newspaper readers in the city turned to newspapers in nearby cities, which increased their coverage of Holyoke: the Union-News of Springfield, now called The Republican; and the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton.

  1. ^ Constantine, Sandra E. "Transcript-Telegram Ceases Publication". Union-News, Springfield, Mass. April 24, 1993.