The Alva Review-Courier is a semi-weekly newspaper for Alva, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas. The newspaper was purchased in 1990 by Martin Broadcasting Corporation. The President is Lynn L. Martin and the vice-president is Marione E. Martin. The Alva Review-Courier is made up of two publications. The legal newspaper entered as second class matter at the U.S. Post Office is the Alva Review-Courier. It is published Friday and Sunday. A Wednesday edition is a combined publication with the Newsgram, a total market coverage product, and carries a masthead of Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram." History The Northwestern Oklahoma State University library on the Alva campus contains more than 8,000 Alva newspapers that Blanche and Allen Doughty donated during the summer of 1966 to the history department of Northwestern Oklahoma State University. The newspapers include the Alva Review, Renfrew Record, Alva Record and Alva Daily Record from 1897 to 1941. The Oklahoma Historical Society did a genealogy of Oklahoma newspapers through a grant from the Library of Congress The following information is based on a newspaper genealogy report requested from the Oklahoma Historical Society by Alva area historian Linda McGill Wagner. The newspapers that merged to become the Alva Courier-Review of today included the Alva Daily News, published from March 5, 1908. to December 31, 1908, and the Morning Times, published from April 7, 1912, to November 21, 1914. Both were absorbed by what became the Daily Review Courier. Published by Logan A. Wilhite and edited by Kent Eubanks, the Morning Times competed with the Alva Daily Pioneer. Eubanks also published and co-edited the Alva Courier with Walter Rossin in 1907 and The Daily Times with Harry Bardshaw in 1908. The Daily Review Courier and Daily Alva Review Courier were used off and on from August 25, 1919, through April 22, 1929. In September 1929, the paper merged with the Alva Review Courier, a daily published from April 23, 1929, through June 4, 1989. On October 1, 1985, the paper used a six-column format, standard advertising unit. The newspaper was also called the Alva Review-Courier & Woods County News from June 7, 1989, through December 13, 1989. In July 1986, it changed from an evening to morning paper, published Tuesday through Friday with a Sunday edition. The paper's current name was used beginning on December 17, 1989, until today, meaning the Alva Review-Courier has provided news coverage for more than 115 years. It absorbed both