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The San Antonio Express-News was founded in 1865, initially published as a weekly tabloid-style newspaper under the name San Antonio Express. It became a daily paper in December 1866 and transitioned to a full newspaper by the early 1870s.
The San Antonio Express-News is owned by the Hearst Corporation. Hearst acquired the paper in 1993 after agreeing to close the San Antonio Light, which Hearst had owned since 1924, in exchange for taking ownership of the Express-News.
As of 2016, the San Antonio Express-News had a daily circulation of nearly 100,000 copies, making it the third largest newspaper in the state of Texas.
The San Antonio Light was a daily afternoon newspaper that began publication in January 1881, founded by A. W. Gifford and J. P. Newcomb. William Randolph Hearst purchased it in 1924. It published its final edition on the 28th of January 1993 after no buyer was found when Hearst agreed to close it in order to acquire the Express-News.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp purchased the Express and the San Antonio Evening News from Harte-Hanks in 1973. Murdoch reformatted the News as a tabloid-style paper while keeping the Express in its original conservative format. In September 1984, the two papers merged into the San Antonio Express-News.
The San Antonio Express-News has offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. In 2022, the San Antonio operation relocated to the top two floors of the Light Building, a downtown property named after the former Hearst newspaper the San Antonio Light.