The Times proved less efficient than advertised). Walter bought the logography's patent and with it opened a printing house to produce a daily advertising sheet. The first publication of the newspaper "The Daily Universal Register in Great Britain" was 1 January 1785. Unhappy because the word "Universal" was frequently omitted from the name, Walter changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to "The Times". In 1803, Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. In spite of Walter Sr's sixteen-month stay in Newgate Prison for libel printed in "The Times", his pioneering efforts to obtain
The Roanoke Times Landmark Communications, which sold off the broadcasting properties and kept the papers. In 1991, the newspaper became known as "The Roanoke Times & World-News" when the company stopped publication of the afternoon "World-News". The paper dropped the latter part of its name in 1995. Landmark started shopping its newspaper properties in 2008 and sold the "Times" to Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media Group in 2013. This made the "Times" a sister publication to the "Richmond Times-Dispatch", as well as the "News & Advance" of Lynchburg, the other major paper serving the Roanoke/Lynchburg media market. As the major daily newspaper for Roanoke