15/09/1982 The first issue of USA Today is released
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1983 USA Today "The Nation's Newspaper" TV Commercial
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1989 USA Today Commercial
USA Today began publishing in September 1982, initially in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas for a newsstand price of 25¢. After selling out the first issue, Gannett gradually expanded the national distribution of the paper, reaching an estimated circulation of 362,879 copies by the end of 1982.