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The Morning Call company history timeline

1883

The Morning Call, founded in 1883, is the leading media company in the Lehigh Valley and the third largest newspaper in Pennsylvania.

1895

1, 1895, Allentown City Treasurer A.L. Reichenbach, who had supervised the contest, read out the new name: “The Morning Call.”

1901

It merged with the Daily Argus in 1901 to form the Morning Call and Fargo Daily Argus.

1935

In 1935 The Morning Call acquired the sole remaining Allentown newspaper, The Chronicle and News, and renamed it the Evening Chronicle.

1938

In 1938 the Sunday Call-Chronicle was first published.

1984

They retained control of the newspaper until 1984, when it was sold to The Times Mirror Company, joining the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant and Southern Connecticut Newspapers Inc., publishers of the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times.

1996

In September 1996, The Morning Call launched its website.

2000

In 2000, Times Mirror was acquired by the Tribune Company, merging 11 newspapers, 22 television stations, four radio stations, a cable TV company, and Tribune Interactive.

2014

In August 2014, The Morning Call became part of Tribune Publishing Company as the former Tribune Co. spun-off its publishing businesses.

2016

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2018

In October 2018, Tronc, the parent company of The Morning Call, changed its name back to Tribune Publishing.

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