Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, or T‑T, was an afternoon daily newspaper covering the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States, and adjacent portions of Hampden County and Hampshire County.
A 1986 daily issue of the Transcript-Telegram | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Newspapers of New England |
| Publisher | Murray D. Schwartz |
| Founded | September 1, 1849 (as Hampden Freeman) |
| Ceased publication | January 21, 1993 |
| Headquarters | 120 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040 United States |
| Circulation | 16,300 daily in 1993 |
| OCLC number | 20551327 |
Published as a daily since 1882, after four years of heavy losses the newspaper ceased publication in January 1993; at the time it was one of the longest running Massachusetts papers to fold, two decades longer than the Boston Post. Long owned by the Dwight family, the T-T's last owner was Newspapers of New England, which had been founded by the Dwights as a holding company for the T-T and other newspapers it had acquired.
With the departure of the T-T, Holyoke lost its only newspaper of record. Daily newspaper readers in the city turned to newspapers in nearby cities, which increased their coverage of Holyoke: the Union-News of Springfield, now called The Republican; and the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton.