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23-683: Lew Williams, Jr. , who became the paper's managing editor in 1966, was well known in Alaska as an opinion columnist. Originally appearing mainly in the Anchorage Times , his columns were regularly published in many Alaskan newspapers up until his death. His children (including Lew Williams III, the mayor of Ketchikan 1990 - 2018) The Ketchikan Daily News is usually made up of one section including Local, Alaska, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment, Nation, and World pages in its Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday editions. The Wednesday edition includes

46-410: A "B" section usually titled "Education." The Weekend Edition covering Saturday and Sunday has a B section titled "Waterfront" along with Sunday Comics and a "Local Scene" supplement that contains book and movie reviews and occasionally an article on coming performances or art events. This article about an Alaska newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

69-447: A dispute with USAC over turbo boost meant the program was abandoned. The car was eventually fitted with a conventional Ford Cosworth DFX engine and entered in the 1981 500. Ongais led the race but crashed and was critically injured. In 1982 a recovered Ongais gave the car one last start at Indy but that too ended with an accident. In 1982, Field founded Interscope Communications , which produced more than 50 major films. In 1984, Field

92-1011: A free agent following controversy surrounding Interscope's signage of gangster rappers including Dr. Dre and Suge Knight 's Death Row Records . The label was shortly bought by MCA Inc. for $ 200 million. In 1996, following a sale to Seagram by Matsushita Electric (parent company of Panasonic ), MCA was rebranded as Universal Pictures , and its MCA Music Entertainment faction was renamed Universal Music Group . Then, in December 1998, Seagram acquired PolyGram and merged its music division of labels with Universal Music Group, resulting in Interscope, on January 1, 1999, being merged into Geffen Records and A&M Records to become Interscope Geffen A&M Records . He and Iovine were co-chairmen of IGA. After leaving Interscope in February 2001, he and Marc Geiger formed Artistdirect Records with

115-636: A location in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Anchorage Times The Anchorage Times was a daily newspaper published in Anchorage, Alaska , that became known for the pro-business political stance of longtime publisher and editor, Robert Atwood . Competition from the McClatchy -owned Anchorage Daily News forced it out of business in 1992. The Anchorage Times

138-480: A major stake in USA Networks . In 1999, the three labels were merged to become USA Films. In 2001, Universal Pictures bought USA from Diller and in 2002, combined USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine Releasing to become Focus Features . In 1989, he and record executive Jimmy Iovine co-founded Interscope Records . The label sustained a distribution deal with Atlantic Records , but in 1995, became

161-586: Is an American media mogul, record executive, entrepreneur and film producer. He founded Interscope Communications to develop and produce films in 1982, and produced his first hit, Revenge of the Nerds , the same year. Seven years later, he co-founded Interscope Records with Jimmy Iovine in 1989. He is an heir of the Marshall Field family. Field was born on June 1, 1953, in Chicago , Illinois ,

184-618: The Anchorage Daily News from founder Norman C. Brown in 1967. Larry Fanning died in 1971: Kay Fanning continued to operate the paper until 1979 when she sold it to The McClatchy Company . She remained as publisher until 1983. Field attended Pomona College in Claremont, California , graduating in 1979. Field's Interscope Racing started off entering Danny Ongais in Formula 5000 in 1975, graduating to USAC racing and

207-595: The Daily News had been publishing a morning edition since 1964. In 1989, Atwood sold the Times to Veco Corporation , an oilfield service company seeking to invest its profits from the clean-up efforts following the Exxon Valdez oil spill . The new management was not able to turn the paper around, and after two and a half years and claimed losses of $ 10 million, the newspaper was sold to McClatchy which then made

230-516: The Daily News that same year. McClatchy's investment fueled an all-out circulation war. By 1984, readership of the Times had fallen behind that of the Daily News . In an interview with the Alaska Journal of Commerce , Times editor and assistant publisher, Bill Tobin , traced the paper's ultimate failure to the late 1980s, and to publisher Robert Atwood's resistance of the morning format. The Times remained an afternoon paper, whereas

253-496: The Daily News was really to blame for their own troubles, citing the discontinuation of subsidies to the paper by Ted Field , the son of Daily News publisher Kay Fanning and heir to the Marshall Field fortune. The papers reached an out-of-court settlement in 1978, and the agreement was terminated in 1979. In the short term, this was a setback for the struggling Daily News , which was compelled to seek outside investors. The Sacramento -based McClatchy newspaper chain, bought

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276-540: The Indianapolis 500 in Parnelli chassis. Field also funded Ongais to make occasional Formula One outings in a Penske during the 1977 season. Field also backed the construction in 1980 of an Interscope chassis designed by Roman Slobodynskyj for the Indianapolis 500 . This was intended to take a turbocharged six-cylinder Porsche engine (similar to the one Ongais and Field were using in their Porsche 935 ) but

299-497: The Times and the Daily News entered into a joint operating agreement in order to reduce costs. Later that year, the Times would begin issuing a Sunday edition. The Daily News had been publishing Sundays since 1965. The Anchorage Daily Times was renamed the Anchorage Times in 1976. In 1977, the Daily News filed suit against the Times , claiming violations of the joint operating agreement. Atwood countered that

322-554: The Alaska Statehood Committee. In Atwood's hands, the Anchorage Daily Times became a prominent voice for statehood. A rival, the Anchorage Daily News , began publishing in 1948, having begun as a weekly two years earlier. Although initially more of an editorial challenge than a competitive threat, the contest would influence the course of both newspapers over the next few decades. In 1974,

345-670: The Jungle (2017), to Filmula Entertainment, to satisfy a breach-of-contract over the unsuccessful reboot of Trauma Records . From 1984 to 1998, he owned a mansion formerly owned by Howard B. Keck located at 1244 Moraga Drive in the gated community of Moraga Estates in Bel Air, California . From 1986 through 1993, Field owned the Harold Lloyd Estate (also known as Green Acres) in Beverly Hills, California. Field

368-569: The Times publisher Bill Allen pleaded guilty to political bribery charges, the Daily News announced that it would terminate the agreement at the end of that month. In June, the Voice of the Times began publishing an exclusively online edition. In October 2008, the Voice of the Times announced that it would stop publishing, with a probable final date of November 1, 2008. Ted Field Frederick Woodruff " Ted " Field (born June 1, 1953 )

391-474: The backing of BMG 's RCA Records . The label folded in 2003. Since forming the company in late 2000, Field is currently chairman and CEO of Radar Pictures. The company initially used Interscope's library for the company's development slate. Field and Radar Pictures have faced legal action in years between 2007 and 2019 over allegations of fraudulent misconduct. In December 2016, Field and his company assigned profits from then-upcoming Jumanji: Welcome to

414-472: The decision to shut down the Anchorage Times. The last issue of the Anchorage Times was published on June 3, 1992. A ten-year deal was inked to maintain the editorial voice of the defunct paper by way of a half-page Voice of the Times section opposite the Daily News editorial page. In 2002, this deal was renewed for another five years. On May 10, 2007, several days after Veco CEO and Voice of

437-631: The defunct Cordova Daily Alaskan . The paper was sold to Charlie Herron in the spring of 1916, and on May 24 changed its name to The Anchorage Daily Times & Cook Inlet Pioneer . On May 29, 1917, it became the Anchorage Daily Times . In December 1924, it was sold to cover debts to a group headed by Bank of Alaska president Edward A. Rasmuson and Jacob B. Gottstein . In June 1935, 28-year-old Robert Bruce Atwood, Edward Rasmuson's son-in-law, arrived in Anchorage from Worcester, Massachusetts . Atwood had been brought to Alaska by Rasmuson to assume

460-475: The position of editor-publisher of the paper, which at that time had a circulation of 650. He would hold the position until 1990. During the war years, Anchorage's population swelled from less than 8,000 to over 43,000, overtaking Fairbanks as Alaska's largest city, and making the Times Alaska's largest daily newspaper. In 1947, Alaska territorial governor Ernest Gruening appointed Atwood to chair

483-477: The son of Marshall Field IV , who owned the Chicago Sun-Times from 1956 to 1965, and Katherine Woodruff Fanning , who was later an editor of several newspapers. Field's parents divorced when he was young. Field's mother then married Larry Fanning, who became Field's stepfather. Field, his sisters, his mother and his stepfather moved to Anchorage, Alaska . Field's mother and Larry Fanning purchased

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506-455: Was a leader of a group that bought movie camera manufacturer Panavision . In 1987, Panavision was sold to Lee International . In 1992, PolyGram bought a controlling interest in the film label. In December 1998, Seagram acquired PolyGram, merging its film division with Universal Pictures . As a result, Interscope Communications, October Films and Gramercy Pictures were sold off to Barry Diller , who owned HSN , which in turn, had

529-746: Was founded by Ted Needham and L. Frank Shaw as the Pioneer-News . The first issue, an advertisement-heavy "extra" edition, was published on May 27, 1915, and distributed without charge. The headline story was "Status of the New Townsite." It was the first newspaper published in the town, which was not yet formally known as "Anchorage." Regular weekly publication, as the Cook Inlet Pioneer and Knik News began on June 5, 1915, and daily publication began in October using equipment purchased from

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