The ''Piqua Daily Call'' was an American

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that was consolidated with the ''Troy Daily News'' in April 2019 to form '' Miami Valley Today'', which is published Tuesday through Friday in

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. Its Sunday edition is called the ''Miami Valley Sunday News''. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest. In addition to the city of Piqua, ''Miami Valley Today'' circulates in several other communities in

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, including

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. It is printed in nearby

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History

''The Piqua Daily Call'' was founded in 1884, around the same time as the ''Piqua Daily Dispatch'' and ''Piqua Daily Leader''. By 1922, all three newspapers had merged into the ''Piqua Daily Call and Piqua Press-Dispatch'', which shortened its name in 1927 to the ''Piqua Daily Call''. In the early 21st century, the ''Daily Call'' formed part of the "

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Group" of

Brown Publishing Company Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of ass ...

, a family-owned business based in

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. Other Brown-owned dailies along Interstate 75 north of

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included the ''

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'' and ''

Troy Daily News The ''Miami Valley News'', formerly the Troy Daily News, is an American daily newspaper published every day except Mondays and Saturdays and holidays in Troy, Ohio. Its Sunday edition is called the ''Miami Valley Sunday News''. It is owned by AIM M ...

''. In February 2009, all three of these newspapers stopped printing Tuesday editions because of the weak economy, reducing the ''Daily Call'' to five publication days per week. Brown Publishing filed for

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on April 30, 2010; its Ohio assets, including 14 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies, were transferred to a new business,

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily newspaper, daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton, Ohio, Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelp ...

, which was purchased in May 2011 by

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-based Versa Capital Management. In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired,

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, and

Heartland Publications Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...

into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, O ...

. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.

References

External links

''Piqua Daily Call''

Ohio Community Media
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