CNHI.. "ahead" of the pack, again...

[Colton]

Just got the word today, all CNHI papers will be going to a 23-inch web.

Meaning, of course, I will have to alter every style sheet myself because there's no way in holy hell this cheap-ass F-Troop of an outfit is going to send someone in who actually knows that the F they're doing.

**** certainly does run downhill...

Oh, by the way, all this happens, "real soon," so I'm told.

F me with a pitchfork.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Good luck with that!

 

[Tom Petty]

have a new buddy who works for a cnhi rag. he tells me they had a 43 percent profit margin in 2006 with a $10 million profit. the company still is letting positions go unhired in his newsroom because they're not on track to make 5 percent more in 2007.

the more i hear about these dickheads, the more i shake my head.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

A 23-inch tab? Like everyone's going tab? I know the metro in my town is something like 50 inches. Or is that 23 per page, which would be a 46?

Funny how monitors get bigger and newspaper pages get smaller.

 

[Colton]

Meat: Still broadsheet, 23 per page.

Before long, though, me thinks we'll be reduced to a tab... then a shopper.

 

[slappy4428]

Good luck with that!

You mean the style sheet or F him with a pitchfork?

 

[Colton]

slappy: Both, probably!

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Cheer up Colton,
I understand CNHI is in the process fo selling about 30 of its newspapers.

 

[wickedwritah]

Cheer up Colton,
I understand CNHI is in the process fo selling about 30 of its newspapers.

To whom?

Someone who will gut them even more?

Sadly, it seems like (for the most part) it's only the CNHI union shops that function. Otherwise ... forget about it.

 

[alleyallen]

CNHI was the owner of my last rag, and it's one of the reasons I left the business. F-ing rag...I was getting paid less at the end of my fourth year than I was when I started there (because of adding a child to the insurance, premiums skyrocketing and no COLA raises).

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Cheer up Colton,
I understand CNHI is in the process fo selling about 30 of its newspapers.

To whom?

Someone who will gut them even more?

Sadly, it seems like (for the most part) it's only the CNHI union shops that function. Otherwise ... forget about it.

Belo Corp

 

[Bob Slydell]

Here ya go. This should make it hurt less at least.

 

[Tom Petty]

Cheer up Colton,
I understand CNHI is in the process fo selling about 30 of its newspapers.

any papers we'd know that are getting sold?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Cheer up Colton,
I understand CNHI is in the process fo selling about 30 of its newspapers.

any papers we'd know that are getting sold?

That I don't know.

 

[DanOregon]

Just got the word today, all CNHI papers will be going to a 23-inch web.

Obviously done with the reader in mind..

 

[Tom Petty]

Just got the word today, all CNHI papers will be going to a 23-inch web.

Obviously done with the reader in mind..

who?

 

[DanOregon]

"Readers find the new design more handy and convenient," said corporate tool/editor.

They always forget to mention the reader will be getting less news and information for the same price.

 

[apeman33]

Just got the word today, all CNHI papers will be going to a 23-inch web.

Obviously done with the reader in mind..

who?

The reader? Since when do they matter?

 

[Desk_dude]

Maybe they can just shoot the pages to the narrower width so your style sheets wouldn't affected.
Lots of papers do this.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

have a new buddy who works for a cnhi rag. he tells me they had a 43 percent profit margin in 2006 with a $10 million profit. the company still is letting positions go unhired in his newsroom because they're not on track to make 5 percent more in 2007.

the more i hear about these dickheads, the more i shake my head.

Of course, CNHI's major investor is the Alabama teachers' retirement system, so anything that doesn't result in a bigger retirement fund gets nixed and anything that will inflate the bottom line gets pushed. So the teachers will have a nice retirement.

Now, the reporters and other employees at CNHI papers? They won't have a nice retirement, but who cares? They're not Alabama teachers.

Seems to me that the last time we had an in-depth discussion about CNHI, somebody mentioned that because of the buying spree they initially went on, the company's leveraged to the hilt. Thus, we seem to get an annual wave of dumping smaller non-daily papers.