The Evening Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in
Glasgow, Scotland.
History
The paper, an evening sister paper of
The Herald, was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Nobody Knows Glasgow Better".
Publication of the
Evening Times (and its sister paper) moved to a
Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in Mitchell Street in 1868. The building is now
The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City.
In 1964, publishers George Outram were bought by
Sir Hugh Fraser. In 1979 the ownership was acquired by
Tiny Rowland's
Lonrho.
On 19 July 1980 the paper moved to offices at 195 Albion Street, a black-fronted building modelled after the
Black Lubyanka building of the Daily Express in London's
Fleet Street. The Albion Street building had previously housed the
Scottish Daily News workers' cooperative from May to November 1975.
A management buy-out in May 1992 created Caledonian Newspapers, later purchased by
Scottish Television in 1996. After the purchase the TV group renamed itself "Scottish Media Group", which was later shortened to SMG, and in 2008 rebranded as
STV Group plc.
Business
The Evening Times and
The Herald are owned by
Newsquest (a division of
Gannett), which acquired it with the purchase of the publishing arm of the Scottish Media Group in 2003 in a £216-million sale.
Distribution
The newspaper is sold in trademark vendor stalls around Glasgow City Centre, with the salesmen calling out the well-known slogan
Times! Evening Times! every few minutes. In addition it is delivered to doors around
Glasgow by paper boys and girls, and is also sold in numerous stores around Greater Glasgow.
Other publications
The Evening Times gives its name to an annual pocket-sized
Scottish football publication called the
Wee Red Book, which contains both the following season's fixtures in Scotland's four senior divisions and lists of previous league and cup winners from Scotland,
England and Europe.
