''The Beaver County Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, and serving the north-western
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
suburbs. The ''Times'' is a direct descendant of many of Beaver County's newspapers, starting with the ''Minerva'', first published in 1807, and generally believed to have been the county's first newspaper. The ''Beaver Times'' was founded by Michael Weyland and was published from 1851 to 1895, when the name was changed to the ''Beaver Argus''. It was changed again to ''The Daily Times'', which was published from 1909 to 1946 and operated by John L. Stewart and E. L. Freeland. It was sold in 1946 to S. W. Calkins, who combined it with the ''Aliquippa Gazette'', which he acquired in 1943. The paper was known as ''The Beaver Valley Times'' until 1957, when it became ''The Beaver County Times'' after its acquisition of the ''Ambridge Daily Citizen''. In 1979, ''The Times'' purchased the only other daily newspaper in the county, ''The News Tribune'' of Beaver Falls.
The ''Times'' currently produces
over-the-top content
An over-the-top (OTT) media service is a media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms: the types of companies that traditionally act as controllers or distributors ...
including their flagship news program The Times Today, Game On, History in a Minute, Get Out This Weekend, and more.
One of the paper's biggest milestones was when the publications changed from evening to morning on April 7, 1997.
Archival issues of ''The Beaver County Times'' can be viewed online at
Google News
Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web.
Google rel ...
.
''Times'' owner
Calkins Media
Calkins Media, Inc. was a media company. Established in 1937, Calkins Media brands included daily newspapers and digital sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a weekly newspaper in South Dade, Fla., and broadcast stations located in Huntsville, Ala ...
was acquired by GateHouse Media in 2017, and GateHouse was merged into
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
It is the sole newspaper covering Beaver County.