Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Newspapers of New England |
Publisher | Murray D. Schwartz |
Founded | September 1, 1849 | (as Hampden Freeman)
Ceased publication | January 21, 1993 |
Headquarters | 120 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040 United States |
Circulation | 16,300 daily in 1993[1] |
OCLC number | 20551327 |
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.