Herald-Banner
The Herald-Banner is a five-day morning daily newspaper published in Greenville, Texas, covering Hunt County. It does not publish a Sunday or Monday edition. The newspaper is published by Community Newspaper Holdings. The "Herald-Banner" also publishes two weekly newspapers: the "Rockwall County Herald-Banner" and "Royse City Herald-Banner". History. John C. Bayne began publishing "The Herald", a weekly newspaper, in Hunt County in 1869. In 1890, the daily "Morning Herald" was begun under editor Edwin W. Harris, publishing alongside the weekly newspaper. The two newspapers would eventually merge under the "Morning Herald" ownership of  the W.C. Poole family. Another Bayne paper, the "Independent" (est. 1875), was renamed the "Independent Banner" when J.F. Mitchell bought it from Bayne in 1882. It became a daily named the "Evening Banner" in 1894 under the ownership of R.C. Dial, who sold the property to Fred Horton in 1907. Harte-Hanks Newspapers bought the "Evening Banner" from the Horton family in 1954, sparking a competition between the crosstown "Banner" and "Herald". After two years, the company bought the "Morning Herald" from the Poole family in 1956, merging the two papers as the "Herald-Banner". A court case followed, with  Harte-Hanks accused of unfair competition; the chain was acquitted of the charges. Harte-Hanks sold the newspaper to Worrell Enterprises in 1988. The American Publishing Company (later Hollinger International) purchased the paper from Worrell in 1991. Hollinger sold the paper to Community Newspaper Holdings in 2000.