THE TIMES (PAWTUCKET)

'''The Times''' is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) daily newspaper based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, covering eastern Providence County, Rhode Island, and some adjacent towns in Massachusetts. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc.

Contents

History

Sisters and competitors

References

External links

History

The Pawtucket newspaper was founded as an afternoon daily, '''The Evening Times''', in 1885, by George O. Willard. Five years later, David O. Black bought the paper, and became the first of four generations to keep it in his family. It was sold in December 1957 to New England Newspapers Inc., a forerunner of Ingersoll Publications, which later acquired the competitor ''The Call'' of Woonsocket. Journal Register Company bought Ingersoll in 1989.
In 2007, a new company, RISN, formed to purchase Journal Register's Rhode Island properties, including ''The Times''.^[2]

Sisters and competitors

In its coverage area, ''The Times'' competes with the state's largest daily, the ''Providence Journal''. It also competes in nearby Massachusetts towns with the ''Milford Daily News''.
RISN (which stands for Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers) also owns three other daily newspapers in Rhode Island, ''The Call'' of Woonsocket (which shares a publisher with ''The Times''), the ''Kent County Daily Times'' of West Warwick and the ''Warwick Daily Times'', 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.^[3]

References

1. Audit Bureau of Circulations "e-Circ" data for six months ending September 30, 2006.
2. "The Times Completes Sale". ''The Times'' (Pawtucket, R.I.), February 5, 2007.
3. "RISN Completes Purchase of Daily Times". ''Kent County Daily Times'' (W. Warwick, R.I.), February 6, 2007.

External links

★ ''The Times'' Website