Originally an afternoon newspaper known as The Evening Call, the Woonsocket paper has published seven mornings a week since the 1990s.
In 2007, a new company, RISN, formed to purchase Journal Register's Rhode Island properties, including The Call[3] In its coverage area, The Call competes with the state's largest daily, the Providence Journal.
It also competes in nearby Massachusetts towns with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the Milford Daily News.
RISN Operations also owns two other daily newspapers in Rhode Island, The Times of Pawtucket (which shares a publisher with The Call), the Kent County Daily Times of West Warwick, as well as several weekly newspapers.
All of these properties were sold for $8.3 million to RISN in early 2007 by Journal Register Company.