Tab Communications

Tab Communications Inc.
IndustryNewspapers
Founded1979
DefunctJanuary 11, 1996
FateBought, then dissolved
SuccessorCommunity Newspaper Company
Headquarters254 Second Avenue,
Needham, Massachusetts 02494 United States
Key people
Tab's three founders:
Russel Pergament, CEO
Dick Yousoufian, president
Stephen Cummings, publisher
From NewsWest merger:
James F. Carlin, Tab chairman
James Kerasiotes, Tab director
ProductsWeekly newspapers in Boston and several western suburbs
ParentIndependent, 1979–1992
Fidelity Investments, 1992–1996

Tab Communications Inc. (also called Tabloid Newspaper Publishers), based first in Newton, Massachusetts, United States, then in nearby Needham, was a weekly newspaper publisher in Greater Boston before being bought by Fidelity Investments in 1992 and dissolved into Community Newspaper Company in 1996.

The company, founded in 1979, steadily expanded from one newspaper to 14 and made one major acquisition, buying its competitor NewsWest in 1989. Most of the Tabs are published by GateHouse Media, who bought CNC in 2006, and are still named after their tabloid format, although they are now broadsheets.