The Lexington County Chronicle and The Dispatch-News is published and mailed each Thursday to 6,500 subscriber families in one of the most affluent counties in the state. Another 1,000 copies are sold in stores and vending boxes.The average annual income of the county's 93,000 households is more than $53,000 a year. Total annual household income is more than $5.3 billion.The Lexington County Chronicle, founded in 1992, acquired the 136-year-old Dispatch News of Lexington in 2001. The two newspapers are now combined into one great newspaper that continues to provide local news for all the citizens of Lexington County. The Lexington County Chronicle is in the Augusta, GA DMA. The Lexington County Chronicle offers ROP and insert advertising opportunities in its daily circulation. Echo Media has direct relationships with over 7,500 newspapers providing tremendous local coverage.