The market area for the Galveston County Daily News consists of 105,700 adults who are relatively affluent, well educated and employed in white collar occupations. More than half of the adults (54%) living in the Galveston market have a post high school education, the average household income is $46,700 and four out of ten (39%) are employed in white collar occupations. The market is split between Galveston Island, home to 45,000 adults and the mainland where a further 60,700 adults reside.The Galveston County Daily News is in the Houston, TX DMA. The Galveston County Daily News offers ROP and insert advertising opportunities in its daily and Sunday circulation. Echo Media has direct relationships with over 7,500 newspapers providing tremendous local coverage.On November 8th, 2005, The Texas City Sun and the Galveston County Daily News joined forces and became one newspaper for all of Galveston county.