Prairie Mountain Publishing Co., a subsidiary of Denver Post owner ap, said today it will acquire Lehman Communications, owner of three Colorado dailies and four weeklies.
Lehman publishes the Longmont Times-Call, which has a daily circulation of 19,759, the Loveland Reporter-Herald, with a daily circulation of 15,905 and the Canon City Record, with a daily circulation of 6,356.
Lehman also publishes the Colorado Hometown Weekly, which is distributed in Lafayette, Louisville and Erie. That has a circulation of 20,200.
“MediaNews is excited to add these outstanding, award-winning newspapers to our family of newspapers,” said Dean Singleton, chairman and CEO of MediaNews. “Colorado is our home, and it is rare to have the opportunity to expand in our home state.”
“Now is the time for our company to join a larger regional Colorado based newspaper publishing firm,” said Ed Lehman, publisher of the Lehman newspapers, in a statement. “We are looking forward to great things ahead for the newspapers and the communities we serve as our company joins Prairie Mountain Publishing.”
Aldo Svaldi: 303-954-1410 or asvaldi@denverpost.com
