PILOT TIMELINE

1907

M. H. Swain launches the weekly Newport News on $700 in city funds; paper later divides into Newport News, Balboa Times and Costa Mesa Herald

1934

Len Martin founds the Costa Mesa Globe; soon after, he purchases the Herald and creates Costa Mesa Globe-Herald

1948

Walter Burroughs and David Ring purchase Costa Mesa Globe-Herald

1955

Costa Mesa Globe-Herald moves to office at 330 W. Bay St. in Costa Mesa

Paper begins coming out twice a week

1957

Paper begins coming out three days a week

1959

Burroughs debuts Newport Harbor Pilot, sister paper of Costa Mesa Globe-Herald; buys right to name “Pilot” from Seal Beach newspaperman Admiral J. R. McKinney

1960

Newport Harbor Pilot begins coming out five days a week

1961

Costa Mesa Globe-Herald and Newport Harbor Pilot combine into Orange Coast Daily Pilot

1962

Burroughs sells Orange Coast Daily Pilot to Times Mirror Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times; Burroughs stays on as publisher

1964

Robert Weed succeeds Burroughs as publisher; paper expands coverage from Seal Beach to San Clemente

1983

Times Mirror Co. sells Orange Coast Daily Pilot to Ingersoll Publications Co., a Connecticut-based holding company that owns a number of papers nationwide

1988

Ingersoll sells Orange Coast Daily Pilot to Minnesota-based Adams Communications Co.

1989

Orange Coast Daily Pilot begins morning circulation after years of hitting newsstands in the afternoon

Robert E. Page, former head of Boston Herald and Chicago Sun-Times, takes over as publisher

1990

Paper suffers layoffs as circulation, advertising revenue drop

1991

Page’s partners at Page Group Publishing Inc. oust him as publisher of Orange Coast Daily Pilot

Paper changes name to Newport Beach-Costa Mesa Pilot and briefly comes out three days a week

1992

Paper resumes daily schedule and changes name to Daily Pilot

1993

Times Mirror Co. buys Daily Pilot and packages it with Los Angeles Times; editors eliminate national and world news and narrow focus to Newport Beach and Costa Mesa

Tom Johnson steps in as publisher

1994

Daily Pilot wins 11 awards from California Newspaper Publishers Assn., including best community newspaper in the state

2000

Tribune Co. purchases Los Angeles Times and Daily Pilot

2004

Daily Pilot moves out of office at 330 W. Bay St., into Times Orange County building at 1375 Sunflower Ave. in Costa Mesa