The Blade is cutting print production, again.

According to 13abc's media partner, The Blade will no longer print or deliver newspapers on Friday or Saturday. This is in addition cuts made in February 2019 that ended print editions on Mondays and Tuesdays.

The switch means customers will only receive a physical copy of the paper three days a week on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Allan Block, the chairman of Block Communications Inc., said, "Print is old-fashioned delivery. It's an approach suitable for text and picture information, but it is going away and it's probably going to go away very fast."

Block cited a lack of advertising revenue to support a printed daily paper and said e-delivery is the wave of the future. He is asking readers to use the mobile sites and the Blade NewsSlide app as alternatives to a physical paper.

"We urge people to buy a tablet and give us a try," Block said.