The Call (Woonsocket)

Infobox Newspaper
name = The Call


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type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = May 31, 1892
ceased publication =
price = 50¢ Daily/$1.50 Sunday
owners = RISN Operations Inc.
publisher = Barry M. Mechanic
editor = Dan Trafford
language = English
political =
circulation = 10,139 daily, 14,575 Sunday in 2006 [Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending September 30, 2006.]
headquarters = 75 Main Street, Woonsocket, Rhode Island 02895 U.S.
ISSN =
website = [http://www.woonsocketcall.com/ woonsocketcall.com]

"The Call" is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, U.S., covering northern Providence County, Rhode Island, and some adjacent towns in Massachusetts.

Originally an afternoon newspaper known as "The Evening Call", the Woonsocket paper has published seven mornings a week since the 1990s. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc.

History

"The Evening Call" was founded in 1892 by Samuel E. Hudson and Andrew J. McConnell, who predicted that "the people of Woonsocket will support a paper devoted to their local and business interests," "essentially, a paper for the people."

Hudson's and McConnell's descendents -- Buell W. Hudson, Charles W. Palmer, Andrew P. Palmer and Nancy E. Hudson -- ran the paper for nearly 90 years before selling it to Ingersoll Publications in 1984. Ingersoll in turn was bought by Journal Register Company in 1989.

In 2007, a new company, RISN, formed to purchase Journal Register's Rhode Island properties, including "The Call".Frechette, Aaron. "Under New Ownership". "The Call" (Woonsocket, R.I.), February 6, 2007.]

Sisters and competitors

In its home coverage, "The Call" competes with the state's largest daily, the "Providence Journal". It also competes in nearby Massachusetts towns with the Worcester "Telegram & Gazette" and the "Milford Daily News".

RISN (which stands for Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers) also owns three other daily newspapers in Rhode Island, "The Times" of Pawtucket (which shares a publisher with "The Call"), the "Kent County Daily Times" of West Warwick, as well as several weekly newspapers. All of these properties were sold for $8.3 million to RISN in early 2007 by Journal Register Company. ["RISN Completes Purchase of Daily Times". "Kent County Daily Times" (W. Warwick, R.I.), February 6, 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://www.woonsocketcall.com "Woonsocket Call" Website]