The Times The Times The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. "The Times" and its sister paper "The Sunday Times" (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by News Corp. "The Times" and "The Sunday Times" do not share editorial staff, were founded independently, and have only had common ownership since 1967. In 1959, the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of "The
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