Tri-Valley Herald Explained

The Tri-Valley Herald was a newspaper in the town of Livermore, California. Floyd L. Sparks was the longtime owner of the Herald, along with the Daily Review and The Argus.^{[1] [2]} Sparks sold the papers in 1985 to the Bay Area News Group-East Bay (BANG-EB), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group.^[3]

The last issue of the paper was published on November 1, 2011, after which the paper was consolidated with the BANG-EB papers Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, San Ramon Valley Times, East County Times, and San Joaquin Herald under the new name Tri-Valley Times, a localized edition of The Mercury News.^[4]

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sparks Stockholders OK Sale of Newspaper Group . 2011-12-01 . 1985-06-21 . San Jose Mercury News.
2. Web site: A region's press: anatomy of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area . 2011-12-01 . 1971.
3. Web site: The State of The American Newspaper: The Battle Of the Bay . 2011-12-01 . January–February 1999 . American Journalism Review.
4. Web site: Bay Area News Group announces rebranding plan . Contra Costa Times . Bay Area News Group . 24 August 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120813013526/http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_18740021?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com . 13 August 2012.