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Type: companypersonyago:WikicatCompaniesBasedInToledo,Ohioyago:WikicatCompaniesEstablishedIn1900yago:WikicatMediaCompaniesOfTheUnitedStatesyago:WikicatNewspaperCompaniesOfTheUnitedStatesyago:Abstraction100002137yago:Company108058098yago:Group100031264yago:Institution108053576yago:Organization108008335yago:YagoLegalActoryago:YagoLegalActorGeoyago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntityyago:SocialGroup107950920yago:WikicatPrivatelyHeldCompaniesInTheUnitedStates New Facet based on Instances of this Class

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