Block Communications






Logo of Block/Blade Communications


Block Communications (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 newspaper 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, over the company and later his grandchildren (one of whom, Allan Block, is company chairman).




Contents






  • 1 Company holdings


    • 1.1 Formerly owned




  • 2 References


  • 3 External links





Company holdings


Newspapers




  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)


  • Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [print edition folded 1992, experimental online only folded September 2015]


  • The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)


Television




  • WAND Decatur, Illinois (NBC)


  • WDRB Louisville, Kentucky (Fox/Antenna TV; operated by Block property Independence Television along with WBKI)


  • WBKI Louisville, Kentucky (The CW/Cozi TVMyNetworkTV/Movies!)


  • WFND-LD Findlay, Ohio (Youtoo America/Daystar)


  • WLIO Lima, Ohio (NBC)


On November 29, 2008, it was announced that Metro Video Productions, owners of Lima, Ohio low-powered network affiliates WOHL-CA (Fox/MyNetworkTV), WLQP-LP (ABC) and WLMO-LP (CBS), would sell these stations to West Central Ohio Broadcasting, Inc.; one of the company's heads, Allan J. Block, is the chairman of Block Communications, owner of WLIO.[1] Those three stations have since consolidated at WLIO's studios and carry simulcasts of the station's newscasts, with WCOB holding the license interests of the stations.[2]


Cable Systems




  • Buckeye CableSystem, Inc. https://web.archive.org/web/20061004005652/http://buckeyecablesystem.com/ (systems in Toledo, Ohio and Sandusky, Ohio, latter officially known as Erie County Cablevision)

  • Buckeye Express (High Speed Internet) https://web.archive.org/web/20061004065011/http://buckeye-express.com/

  • Buckeye Access (Dial up Internet) https://web.archive.org/web/20061004030803/http://buckeye-access.com/

  • MaxxSouth Broadband


Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)



  • TeleSystem (formerly Buckeye Telesystem) http://www.telesystem.us

  • Line Systems http://linesystems.com/ (Acquired July 2014 and now a division of Telesystem) [3]


Cable Television Networks



  • Buckeye Cable Sports Network


  • HF100 Toledo, Ohio HomeFinder Channel 100 cable; (Operated by Block property Buckeye Cablevision)


Non-Media Holdings


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


Formerly owned




  • Newark Daily Advertiser (Now The Star Ledger), Newark, New Jersey (owned from 1832 to 1939)

  • WIIC-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (founded by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; now Cox-owned WPXI)

  • WWSW radio, Pittsburgh (also founded by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; now iHeartMedia-owned WBGG)


  • WLFI-TV, West Lafayette, Indiana (sold to LIN TV Corporation; now owned by Heartland Media)

  • Corporate Protection Services (Sold to Guardian Alarm Co. of Toledo [4] which later was sold to Asset Protection Services, Toledo, Ohio)


  • The Monterey County Herald, traded to Scripps in exchange for the Pittsburgh Press; now owned by Digital First Media


  • Toledo 5, Toledo, Ohio (operated as a cable-only The WB/CW affiliate by Buckeye CableSystem; affiliation, channel slot and programming sold to SJL Broadcasting on September 1, 2013 and moved over-the-air to WTVG-DT2)


  • KTRV Nampa-Boise, Idaho (Sold to Ion Media)


  • WBKI-TV Campbellsville/Louisville, Kentucky (CW; owned by L.M. Communications, but operated by Block through WDRB/WMYO through a shared services agreement where WMYO duplicated its channels for the main portion of the Louisville market. Station was sold in spectrum auction and went off-air on October 25, 2017; rights to programming and CW affiliation were sold to Block, which retains WBKI's programming and call sign over WMYO's channel spectrum.)



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..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  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. ^ http://www.telesystem.us/newsroom/press-releases/block-communications-agrees-to-acquire-line-systems/


  4. ^ [1] Archived January 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine




External links


  • Company homepage








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