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Posted on 05/26/2007 11:52:45 AM PDT by LdSentinal
The State newspaper will stop delivery and newsstand sales along the coast and Upstate next Friday.
Facing increased delivery costs, The State’s management decided to discontinue sales in 18 coastal and Piedmont counties — about 3,500 copies or 3 percent of the paper’s 107,000 daily circulation. The paper will deliver in 25 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
The State will be available statewide by mail subscription and free through its Web site, www.thestate.com.
“Our world is changing at a rapid pace, and new technology is affecting everything we do,” publisher Henry Haitz said in a written statement. “The cost to deliver our newspaper to the furthest parts of the state in the traditional way just isn’t feasible.”
The State was delivered to less than 1 percent of households in many of the coastal and Upstate counties, said Patrick McFarland, vice president of circulation.
Delivering to every county is not cost-effective, said McFarland, who added he’s reviewing a subscription service in which people can read the printed version of the newspaper page by page on their computer.
Newspapers nationwide are in a crunch, facing declining ad revenues and circulation. Many have reduced employment and the number of pages.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Charlotte Observer once had strong readership in South Carolina, too, before retreating to focus on their metro cores.
Snicker. So much for “South Carolina’s Newspaper.” The Statist is nothing but another Knight-Ridder rag, with an editorial board loaded with liberals that don’t represent the views of the majority of the folks that live in central South Carolina. Good to see them sliding toward irrelevance.
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SC ping. I guess this means that I’ll have less choices as to what I burn in my bbq chimney starter. :)
By the time you move here, The State may have disappeared altogether :)
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It is a really big waste of paper and ink. The only use I have for it is packing material to ship stuff I sell on Ebay.
My wife subscribes to it mostly to clip coupons and such. I would be only too happy to unsubscribe from it completely. At least I don’t pay for the subscription.
Maybe if “El Estado” hadn’t built such a huge facility on Shop Road, maybe they would be in a better financial position. They apparently treat their space as better than anyone else’s too. A lot of places around WB Stadium sell their parking places on game weekends. What times I have left my former place of employment (that sold all their spaces) on a gameday, at The State, a lot of spaces seem to be there.
I don’t miss having to fight game day and State Fair Traffic when used to work weekends.
I use to work there too, in the commercial printing plant. Back in the day.
I use it to line my bird cage :0)
It's a shame that the coastal communities will loose all that valuable fish wrap.
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