Joseph Harvey Long
( 1863 - 1958 )

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Pennsylvania born Joseph Harvey Long (1863- 1958 learned the printing trade in Wheeling. Moving to Huntington in 1893, he purchased The Advertiser, a small daily paper that signified the first building block in what would become a local media empire. For a number of years, Long's afternoon Advertiser slugged it out with the morning Herald-Dispatch, owned by Dave Gideon. In 1925, the two newspspers declared a truce and merged as the Huntington Publishing Co., with Long as chairman and Gideon as president. The mechanical and business operations were combined while the two news stsft operated independently. Revognizing the potential of television, Long established the state's first TV ststion, WSAZ, which signed on for the first time in 18489/

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