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Don't go to Spokesman-Review if you're hoping to read about football...

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by steveu, Aug 5, 2007.

  1. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    That's fucked up. I assume you guys are still doing daily stories and whatnot?
     
  2. Yup, but no longer traveling for road games.
     
  3. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    That's shitty, but not surprising.
     
  4. Meat Loaf

    Meat Loaf Guest

    I don't know what to make of my paper. Every year, the tab has fewer ads, and we keep wondering if we'll lose it. However, this year, we're doing a second tab for all the fringe sports like soccer, volleyball and cross country. The grand plan: they're double-selling the ads. So, two ads for the price of one, but twice as much cost for making two tabs.

    Fucking idiots.
     
  5. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    THAT long????? Really?

    Damn. That's inexcusable for that area. Simply inexcusable.
     
  6. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    We're shifting to running NFL preview stuff in the daily. We're 3 1/2 hours from the nearest NFL team, so the interest here isn't so demanding.
     
  7. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    I root for ads 51 weeks of the year. More.

    We have one thing which is accepted as a purely editorial-driven product -- the football tab. The more open pages I have to work with, the cleaner a section I'll have.

    Every once in a while, your service to the reader has to come first.
     
  8. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    shot ... we had the same request. We're putting a template together for our high school pages and each school gets a page. An ad would really screw with that, so we've asked for a certain amount of open pages. Supposedly they're struggling to sell it anyway (insert eye roll here), so it shouldn't be a problem.
     
  9. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Any ad people check out this site? I'm curious on their take on the business. And if you were a salesperson, how would you sell a product that managers are repeatedly downgrading?
     
  10. Lester Bangs

    Lester Bangs Active Member

    The prep tabs I've done usually force the sales staff to get out and work the more rural outposts, which leads to them whining and trying to get it cut as they hate going out because those ads are usually small and offer very little commission for an awful lot of legwork.
     
  11. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    In other words, they actually have to work as opposed to calling someone for the easy renewal.
     
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