Greater Media Inc. to observe 50th year Greater Media Inc., Boston, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in broadcasting throughout 2006. Owned by the Bordes family, the company was originally founded in 1956 by Yale classmates Peter A. Bordes and Joseph Rosenmiller. Greater Media Inc., whose corporate headquarters is in Braintree, Mass., is one of the largest and few remaining privately held broadcast companies in America. It began with the ownership of a single radio station in Southbridge, Mass., and grew to include a combination of communications companies nationwide. By the 1980s, its business included radio, cable television, printing, publishing and telecommunications operations. The company sold its cable business in 1999 to focus more exclusively on its radio and newspaper operations. Today, Greater Media is the parent company of 19 AM and FM radio stations in Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and New Jersey; a modern printing plant and a group of weekly and monthly newspapers in central New Jersey; and several telecommunications towers throughout the United States. Greater Media Chairman of the Board John Bordes said, “I am proud of the achievements of our company over the past years. We look forward to growing Greater Media in the coming years.” According to Peter Smyth, president and CEO of Greater Media, “Peter Bordes believed passionately in the strength of locally based, creative broadcasting that serves the needs of the community. In the coming years, Greater Media will be among the first broadcasters to embrace new technologies and new methods of communicating with our listeners and advertisers, because we know that is what Mr. Bordes would want us to be doing.” Greater Media Newspapers, headquartered in Freehold Township, publishes 12 weekly newspapers in Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties: East Brunswick Sentinel, Edison/Metuchen Sentinel, North/South Brunswick Sentinel, Woodbridge Sentinel, Suburban, News Transcript, Examiner, Independent, The Hub, Atlanticville, Tri-Town News, and Brick Township Bulletin. The New Jersey stations are WDHA, Dover, and WMTR, Morristown, in Morris County; WMGQ and WCTC, New Brunswick, in Middlesex County; WRAT, Point Pleasant, and WJRZ, Manahawkin, in Ocean County; and WWTR, Bridgewater, in Somerset County.