JRC booted out of Mass.

GateHouse adds Taunton (who competed mildly with Brockton for Taunton and surrounding towns to the north) and Fall River.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/12/01/journal_register_selling_mass_newspapers_to_gatehouse_media/

 

Is this the end of Dino?

 

Fucking sweet.

Fuck you Bob.

 

And the whores I rode in on??

 

Seems like JRC got a good price: $70 million for two papers with a combined 30K circulation and a few weeklies. So, much as we'd like to, I don't think we can see this as a negative for JRC, whose stock price increased after the announcement of the sale.

 

Think you can see it as a negative for the poor saps that work at those papers though.

 

They are free of JRC now, so that probably isn't a negative unless the new owner cuts staff. But since JRC operates pretty lean, there likely isn't anything to cut.

 

Dino.

 

Liberation day for those poor bastards in Taunton and Fall River.

 

So now Gatehouse owns the following dailies:

from CNC:
Framingham
Waltham
Milford
Dedham

from Ledger/Enterprise Newsmedia:
Quincy
Brockton

from JRC:
Taunton
Fall River

KP, Taunton did more than nominally compete with Brockton. Brockton was putting out a Taunton edition seven days. Expect circulation at the Enterprise to dip further as they redirect people toward the Gazette.

And I don't see how Gatehouse doesn't make cuts.

 

Not much more to cut.

 

Agreed, but how many times have we said that in the past, happy?