Times Record News
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Times Record News is a daily newspaper based in Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2010,...

, US since 1907. It is owned by the newspaper group, The E.W. Scripps Company.

From 1976 the newspaper was part of Harte-Hanks
Harte-Hanks
Harte-Hanks is an advertising and direct marketing company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is particularly associated with the publication of weekly shopper publications, with 13 million circulation weekly in 1100 separate editions of the PennySaver and Flyer each week in California and...

 Newspapers. Scripps began operating the newspaper in 1997 after they bought it from Harte-Hanks.

A "GOSS COSMO-OFFSET" Printing Press (Which runs off roughly 9,000 papers an hour) with the nightly paper circulation ranging from 28,000 up to 34,000 is used to print the newspaper. Additional wrappers are run off during the day for select packages which are 2 to 3 a week.

The Times Record News also uses two of the oldest remaining circular rotational pattern insert machines of any newspaper in the country (both of them are run primarily from air and vacuum lines). Each machine is manufactured by HARRIS, and is capable of a maximum of 10,000 inserted papers produced in any given hour, however usually both insert approximately 7,000 papers per hour.

The mailroom itself has 1 remaining QUIPP Series 300 Counter stacker still in use and has recently acquired 2 new QUIPP Series 500 Counter stackers.
Also in use are 2 fairly new QUIPP VIPER Series automatic bundelers.

Normally weekly packages which are run are the Comics, Big 5, and full insert set for the Tuesday night press run, with slight variations from week to week.

The Times Record News is also the publisher of the Sheppard Senator, the local newspaper serving the military stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located five miles north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the largest training base and most diversified in Air Education and Training Command...

in Wichita Falls (the paper's title reflects the base's namesake, a former United States Senator).

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