OC Register going tab??

Seems that the move to a tabloid format would limit the number of prominent display areas that could attract advertisers. Gone will be the various front and back pages of sections.

Also, from a reader's standpoint, it seems that a tabloid inhibits the ability of a newspaper being shared in the household. No longer will Dad be able to pass along the sports section to Junior when he's ready to move on to the business section.

I know there are studies that may show a tabloid has more readers per newspaper distributed, but that may have more to do with the next person on a commuter train picking up a newspaper someone else left behind than the newspaper actually being shared in the home. As previously noted on this thread, mass transit isn't exactly embraced by the masses in SoCal.

Just my three cents.

 

Shit. Wall. [waiting....waiting...waiting...]

 

The most important sentence in this entire thread.

Gotta know your market. Fish nailed it: shit ... wall.

 

i heard tampa is going to do the same. ... seems to be the last-ditch effort for a lot of papers on the way to BK.

if true, i hope a lotta folks in this chain bail quickly, because it would appear more layoffs are right around the corner.

 

Also, from a reader's standpoint, it seems that a tabloid inhibits the ability of a newspaper being shared in the household. No longer will Dad be able to pass along the sports section to Junior when he's ready to move on to the business section.
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Junior doesn't read the newspaper. If he's interested he reads it online between facebook and porn.

 

Freedom is crashing and burning HARD. They borrowed a bunch of money awhile back to invest in multimedia and it bit them in the ass. Now those lenders want their money and Freedom doesn't have it after losing tons of ad revenue and circulation across the board. Mass layoffs, selloffs and eventual bankruptcy are in the near future for these shops. If you work for a Freedom property in any position below upper management, I suggest you keep your resume updated and ready to go, because your head is on the chopping block for the coming months.

 

I think they will just sell the OC paper and a couple of other properties to cover.

Who knows, though.

Freedom is a good chain and has avoided the mass layoffs - at least at papers not named the OC Register - for awhile now.

 

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

 

You're comparing apples and aardvarks. The National's problems, and Lord knows it had problems, had nothing to do with format.