being converted to a weekly due to declining circulation,
next monthly ?
Dixie chick business model.
The Dixie Chick Marketing Strategy continues to decimate the fishwrap industry.
Our oldest son and DIL live in a community that went to a free weekly newspaper that is mailed each Friday with a lot of ads. There is pretty good local news in the weekly fish wrap, the ads obviously pay the bills and the price is right/free.
No one in their cul de sac buys/subscribes to any newspaper.
The old cable tv system that refused to carry Fox News went belly up when home owners bought satellite tv systems. A couple of years ago, most developers in their new additions refused to put in cable. They provided deals to Dish or Direct TV. Comcast gets new customers and loses them when their price increase come after a few months.
In spite of being in liberal N California, this fast growing suburbanoplis voted for GW in 2004 in a wide % versus basically a split in the 2000 election. When the MSM loses its contact with voters and consumers, our side wins.
Monthly? No, the local news is about a weekly thing. Every week there is enough general local interest stuff that is worth printing. City council, school board, police blotter, public notices, high school sports. Totally non partisan things that no one other than the locals care about. That’s what I see the industry becoming.