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Block Communications Inc. (also known as Blade Communications) is an American privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio. The company was founded in 1900 in New York City when Paul Block, a German-Jewish immigrant who came to the United States fifteen years prior, formed an ad representation firm for newspapers. The Block empire grew to encompass many newspapers on the east coast of the US, however with the Great Depression in the 1930s came the loss of all but three properties: the ad representation firm, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Toledo Blade (where Block eventually settled the company upon its purchase in 1927). After Block's death in 1941, his children took over the company. They eventually passed it on to their grandchildren, who continue to operate it to this day.

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Toledo, Ohio

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New York City

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Great Depression

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Company holdings

Newspapers

Television

Broadcast

Louisville, Kentucky

Lima/Findlay, Ohio

(*) - Serve as translators for WOHL to expand its coverage across the West Ohio TV market

Other markets

Cable

Online

  • Buckeye Access (Dial up Internet)[6]
  • MaxxSouth Broadband
  • TeleSystem (formerly Buckeye Telesystem) [7]
  • Line Systems[8] (Acquired July 2014 and now a division of Telesystem) [9]

Non-Media

  • Metro Fiber & Cable Construction Company (a Toledo-based contractor of fiber optic installation)

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Pennsylvania

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Lima, Ohio

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Findlay, Ohio

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American Broadcasting Company

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CBS

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Former properties

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Toledo, Ohio

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The WB

The WB

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The CW

The CW

The CW Television Network is an American English-language commercial broadcast television network that is controlled, through The CW Network, LLC, by Nexstar Media Group with a 75% ownership interest. The network's name is derived from the first letters of the names of its two founding co-owners CBS Corporation and Warner Bros.. Nexstar closed its acquisition of a controlling interest in The CW on October 3, 2022, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each retaining a 12.5% ownership stake.

Source: "Block Communications", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 9th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Communications.

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References
  1. ^ "Phipps flips Lima low-power cluster". Television Business Report. November 29, 2008. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
  2. ^ Sowinski, Greg (December 2, 2008). "WLIO owner buys Fox affiliate, other stations for $2.4 million". The Lima News. Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved December 2, 2008.
  3. ^ About us - Hometown Stations.com
  4. ^ Buckeye Cable
  5. ^ Buckeye Express
  6. ^ Buckeye Access
  7. ^ TeleSystem
  8. ^ Line Systems
  9. ^ Block acquires Line Systems - TeleSystem.us
  10. ^ [1] Archived January 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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