Buffett buying Tulsa World

Good, bad or other for the folks in Tulsa?

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130225/MONEY/702259918/1685#warren-buffett-buys-the-world

 

I'm guessing good. Tulsa is a great shop and Buffett is a good owner.

 

Does this mean they'll start putting a paper out on Christmas?

The World used to have a longstanding tradition of not publishing then, and New Year's might have been included with that. I don't recall.

I haven't seen the World in several years but it used to be very, very good. One of those metro-ish/regional papers that didn't get lots of pub nationally but owned the local market.

 

We've published on Christmas every day since I've been here.

And we're still very, very good.

 

Don't get all cocky now, you aren't that good

 

Word on the street is Buffett's people have been touring more properties in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. Might be trying to make a deal with Stephens.

 

Any idea if that would include NWA Media? Or would that be more of a Fort Smith buy because of WEHCO?

 

Not sure. I heard the BH folks were in Vegas and heading to those states next. I didn't hear specific papers.

 

I don't know if the two are related, but shortly after they bought the College Station paper, that paper seemed to make a heavy push to expand it's multimedia offerings, hiring a fulltime video guy, creating its own radio, and developing a separate website to focus solely of Aggie material (to compete against a couple of popular ones already in the market).
Again, these things may have already been in the works, but it all seemed to happen around that time.