About
About The Sun News
Mailing address | P.O. Box 406, Myrtle Beach, SC 29578
Physical address | 914 Frontage Road E., Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
843-626-8555 or 1-800-568-1800
Founded
The weekly Myrtle Beach News was founded in 1936. In 1961, the Myrtle Beach Sun (founded in 1950) bought the News and formed The Sun News. The State-Record Company of Columbia bought The Sun News in 1973 and it became a Monday-Saturday paper. In 1977 The Sun News added a Sunday paper and began printing seven days a week. Knight Ridder purchased The State-Record Company, including The Sun News, in December 1986. The McClatchy Co. bought Knight Ridder and The Sun News in June 2006.
Circulation
50,937 daily; 59,945 Sunday
Most
- Investigators seek answers in fatal auto wreck
- Bidders snap up property in Horry County
- School board votes to buy Coca-Cola facility
- Brothers fight over stolen fish
- Pets lose in downturn
- Computer store robbed and vandalized
- Kidnapping reported at night club
- Low demand shuts steel mill for month
- Military resists AVX lawsuit
- Thief leaves blood at store
