Tri-Valley Herald

{{short description|Newspaper in Pleasanton, California}}

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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.{{cite web

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|title = Sparks Stockholders OK Sale of Newspaper Group

|access-date = 2011-12-01

|date = 1985-06-21

|work = San Jose Mercury News

}}{{cite web

|url = https://archive.org/details/regionspressanat00riverich

|title = A region's press: anatomy of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area

|access-date = 2011-12-01

|year = 1971

}} Sparks sold the papers in 1985 to the Bay Area News Group-East Bay (BANG-EB), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group.{{cite web

|url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3293

|title = The State of The American Newspaper: The Battle Of the Bay

|access-date = 2011-12-01

|date = January–February 1999

|work = American Journalism Review

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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.{{cite web

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|title = Bay Area News Group announces rebranding plan

|publisher = Contra Costa Times

|author = Bay Area News Group

|access-date = 24 August 2011

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120813013526/http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_18740021?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

|archive-date = 13 August 2012

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