Editing Mills County, Texas (section)

==Media==
[[File:2022-12-12-10-04-20 screenshot.jpg|left|thumb|''Goldthwaite Eagle'' printing office, c. 1910]]
The first known newspaper, preceding the formation of Mills County, was the ''Rancho Rackett'', which started around 1880 at Williams Ranch.<ref name=":1" /> A [[Broadside (printing)|broadside]] appeared in Goldthwaite, printed on a portable press by Lampasas resident "Calamity" Bonner, and is credited as the first paper distributed in the town.<ref name=":6" /> ''The Goldthwaite Mountaineer'' was published by W.H. Thompson<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bridges |first=G. Frank |date=1979-08-09 |title=The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1979 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1056179/m1/3/zoom/ |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=English}}</ref> starting on March 5, 1886, before ending publication in 1898 under Col. J.K. Street and merging with the ''Brownwood Record''.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news |publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities|title=The mountaineer |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090421/ |access-date=2022-10-24}}</ref><ref name=":25">{{Cite news |date=September 10, 1898 |title=The Mountaineer Moves |work=The Goldthwaite Eagle}}</ref> Col. Street, after publishing ''The Goldthwaite Mountaineer'' for about three months, determined that the town could not sustain two newspapers.<ref name=":25" /> The first profitable weekly newspaper, ''The Mountain Eagle'', was established by W.H. Thompson and R.M. Thompson in 1894.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":1" /> An early issue of the paper identifies itself as "the organ of Mills County."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=R. M. |date=1896-03-07 |title=The Mountain Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 7, 1896 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098007/m1/4/zoom/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=English}}</ref> The same year a weekly called ''The Mills County Advocate'' commenced publication.<ref name=":6" /> In 1896, ''The Mountain Eagle'' was sold, and its name changed to ''The Goldthwaite Eagle''.<ref name=":1" /> ''The Mullin Enterprise'', which began in 1902,<ref>{{Cite news |publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities |title=The Mullin enterprise |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86088985/ |access-date=2022-10-24}}</ref> merged with ''The Eagle'' in 1950.<ref name=":1" />

Mills County is part of the [[Waco, Texas|Waco]]/[[Temple, Texas|Temple]]/[[Killeen, Texas|Killeen]] ([[Central Texas]]) DMA. Local media outlets include: [[KCEN-TV]], [[KWTX-TV]], [[KXXV-TV]], [[KWKT-TV]] and [[KNCT-TV]]. Two other television stations from the [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]]/[[Sweetwater, Texas|Sweetwater]]/[[Brownwood, Texas|Brownwood]] DMA provide coverage for Mills County, [[KTAB-TV]] and [[KRBC-TV]]. KRNR FM 92.7, "Redneck Radio," currently broadcasts from Goldthwaite.<ref>{{Cite web |title=KRNR-FM 92.7 MHz - Goldthwaite, TX |url=https://radio-locator.com/info/KRNR-FM |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=radio-locator.com}}</ref> During the 1920s, a radio station owned by the Eagle Publishing Company, KGKB (frequency 1070 KC), broadcast from ''The Goldthwaite Eagle'' editorial offices before moving to Brownwood.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Goldthwaite Eagle - February 1, 2023 |url=https://1318.newstogo.us/editionviewer/default.aspx?Edition=6bfc932a-59a0-4a5a-8835-703b5c93cfea |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=1318.newstogo.us}}</ref>