The Bay City Times

{{Short description|Newspaper published in Bay City, Michigan}}

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| name = The Bay City Times

| image = File:The Bay City Times logo.png

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| type = Three-times weekly newspaper, plus a joint edition with The Saginaw News

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = 1873

| price =

| owners = Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc. D.B.A. Booth Newspapers, Inc.

| publisher = Tim Gruber

| editor = Bob Johnson

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| language = English

| political =

| circulation = 4,387 Daily
8,486 Sunday

| circulation_date = 2022

| headquarters = Bay City, Michigan, United States

| circulation_ref = {{Cite web |date=2022-02-01 |title=2022-2023 Michigan Press Association Member Directory |url=https://michiganpress.org/directory-flipbook/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=Michigan Press Association |language=en-US}}

| sister newspapers = Times Plus

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| ISSN = 2638-3314

| website = {{URL|mlive.com/bay-city}}

}}

The Bay City Times is a newspaper published in Bay City, Michigan, United States,{{cite web |url=http://members.michiganpress.org/list |title=Michigan Press Association list of members |publisher=Michigan Press Association |access-date=April 4, 2017}} published Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, with a Tuesday edition jointly published with The Saginaw News. The paper is published by Booth Newspapers, owned by Advance Publications. The paper is the most widely circulated newspaper in northeastern Michigan.{{cite web |url=http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?307955 |title=Searchable directory of online sources |access-date=2008-02-09 |work=Lexis Nexis}} The newspaper began in 1873 and remains one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation.{{cite web|url=http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html|title=World Association of Newspapers|work=wan-press.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040107070325/http://www.wan-press.org/article2823.html|archive-date=2004-01-07}}

The paper originally published seven days a week until June 1, 2009, when the Times and its sister papers, The Saginaw News and The Flint Journal, reduced publishing to three times a week (Thursday, Friday and Sunday) while increasing their web presence.{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/baycityforward/|title=Bay City Forward - Moving into the future with The Bay City Times – MLive.com|work=mlive.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327110439/http://www.mlive.com/baycityforward/|archive-date=2009-03-27}} The Times, along with the News and the Journal, are published at the Booth-owned Valley Publishing Co. printing plant in Monitor Township, near Bay City.{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/03/flint_journal_to_publish_3days.html|title=Flint Journal to publish 3 days a week|work=MLive.com|date=24 March 2009 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/baycityforward/index.ssf/2009/03/a_look_back_at_bay_city_times.html|title=A look back at Bay City Times history|work=MLive.com|date=24 March 2009 }}

On March 30, 2010, The Bay City Times and The Saginaw News launched a joint Tuesday print edition, Great Lakes Bay Edition, which is available at selected locations in Bay, Saginaw and Midland Counties.{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/03/the_saginaw_news_to_partner_wi.html|title=The Saginaw News to partner with The Bay City Times for Great Lakes Bay Tuesday print edition|work=MLive.com|date=14 March 2010 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/03/remember_to_pick_up_your_great.html|title=Remember to pick up your Great Lakes Bay Edition Tuesday newspaper at a nearby newsstand|work=MLive.com|date=28 March 2010 }} Both the News and the Times share the same sports section and staff, Hugh Bernreuter, Cory Butzin, Michael Niziolek and Lee Thompson, and the same features sections and staff. Both newspapers and the Flint Journal share the same radio and television writer, Sue White.