The paper dropped the "Ramsey" part of its title and moved to Ridgeway Street, Douglas, in the 1970s.
Its sister newspaper, Mona's Herald, closed in the same decade.
The Isle of Man Courier became a free, delivered newspaper in 1981.
After a strike killed off the Examiner, Isle of Man Times, Manx Star and Isle of Man Gazette in 1987, the Courier Group bought the titles and the Examiner's premises in Hill Street, Douglas.
The Courier Group relaunched the Isle of Man Examiner in competition with the Manx Independent, which was started by journalists who had been sacked during the Examiner group strike.