The Bucks County Courier Times is part of Calkins Media which also includes five other newspaper properties in Pennsylvania, one each in New Jersey and Florida, two television stations in Florida and a web site serving the Greater Philadelphia region.

The corporate offices of Calkins Media are located on the same property as the Courier Times in Levittown, PA.

Calkins Media had its start in western Pennsylvania as Calkins Newspapers, Inc. In February 1937, Stanley W. Calkins purchased the controlling interest in his first newspaper, the Uniontown Daily News-Standard. The Daily News Standard was merged with Uniontown's other daily newspaper, The Morning Herald, to form the current newspaper, the Uniontown Herald-Standard.

In 1943, Calkins ventured north to Beaver County, PA, buying the assets of the Aliquippa Gazette - the first of several newspapers purchased in Beaver County. The purchases led to the publication of the current Beaver County Times.

The Calkins organization expanded into the greater Philadelphia market in 1954 with the acquisition of the Bristol Courier in Bristol, PA. and the Doylestown Intelligencer from Senator Joseph Grundy.

The Bristol Courier was later merged with the Levittown Times to form the present Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, PA.

At the urging of builder William Levitt and to strengthen the Calkins Newspapers position in the Philadelphia market, S.W. Calkins founded the Levittown Times in New Jersey in 1958. The paper was printed at the Courier Times plant in Pennsylvania and had offices on Route 130 in Burlington City, New Jersey. The New Jersey operation was relocated to Willingboro and renamed the Burlington County Times. It is the only Calkins newspaper started from scratch and it still exists as a separate entity.

In 1961, S.W. Calkins purchased the weekly Homestead, Florida South Dade News and the Homestead Leader/Perrine Post, another weekly. Today it is the South Dade News Leader.

S.W. Calkins died in 1973. Today his three daughters --- Shirley C. Ellis, Carolyn C. Smith and Sandra C. Hardy --- are the owners and directors of Calkins Media.

In 1986, WWSB-TV in Sarasota, Florida was bought by the Southern Broadcast Corporation for $40.5 million. The shareholders were Calkins, Southern Broadcast Group & Robert R. Nelson. In April 1999, Calkins acquired all the remaining shares of Southern Broadcast Corporation, giving it 100% ownership.

In 2002, Calkins Newspapers became Calkins Media, a name change designed to be more reflective of our status as a multi-media company. Also in 2002, Calkins bought the Greene County Messenger in Waynesburg, PA, in independent weekly publication.

The Ellwood City Ledger, PA was added in 2005 as was another Florida television station, WTXL-ABC 27 in Tallahassee.

Bucks County Courier Times
Levittown, PA

Burlington County Times
Willingboro, NJ

Ellwood City Ledger
Ellwood City, PA

Greene County Messenger
Waynesburg, PA

Herald-Standard
Uniontown, PA

South Dade News Leader
Homestead, FL

The Intelligencer
Doylestown, PA

WTXL-ABC 27
Tallahassee, FL

WWSB-ABC 7
Sarasota, FL

phillyBurbs.com
Tullytown, PA