From the Annals of the Vanishing Daily Paper –  In 1881, the first issue of the San Antonio Light was published. The Light was a daily except on Sundays.  The paper was originally described as the only Republican daily in Texas.  After the Light was purchased by Harrison L. Beach and Charles S. Diehl in 1911, the Light became liberal-Democratic in its political views. William Randolph Hearst bought the Light  in 1924.  By 1972 the Light, with a daily circulation of 122,292 and a Sunday circulation of 160,905, had the one of the largest readerships of any of the Hearst properties.  By 1987, however, it was operating on a deficit, and in October 1992 the Hearst corporation, after purchasing the rival San Antonio Express-News, closed the Light.