Birmingham has the Birmingham News and the Post-Herald. One is a morning paper, the other is an evening paper. They don’t really seem to be in competition, though, and they put out a combined Sunday paper.
The Los Angeles Times is distributed through almost all of Southern California. I think they stopped home delivery in San Diego (they used to have a San Diego edition), but you can get home delivery in LA, Orange, San Bernardino (most of it), Riverside (most of it), Ventura, Santa Barbara (most of it), and parts of Kern County.
The Daily News (for whom I string high school football games, read my exciting account of the Flintridge Prep-Marshall Division 13 semifinal in Sunday’s (12/7) online edition!) has home delivery in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita, and Antelope Valleys. It is also delivered in the southern parts of Ventura and Kern County. The northern edge is Mojave. At least that’s the northernmost high school the paper covers.
The Daily News is part of a chain that also owns the Long Beach paper, the Pasadena paper, the East San Gabriel Valley paper, the San Bernardino Paper, and I think one other. There are also suburbans in the South Bay area and Riverside.
The Orange County Register has a pretty big circulation area and I think a higher penetration rate in Orange County than the LA Times does.
Do you and I work for the same company…?
Does Trenton, NJ still have the Trenton Times and the Trentonian?
The Chicago Tribune has a daily circulation of 675,84 and the Sun-Times has a daily circulation of 480,920. That is total. In the City of Chicago proper the Sun-Times outsells the Tribune.
The Sunday Chicago Tribune approaches a million. While the Sunday Sun-Times is about 600,000.
For an international perspective, I thought I’d interject that Toronto has two daily newspapers: the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun. The Globe & Mail and National Post are both national newspapers based in Toronto that compete directly with the Star and Sun in this market.
In Tokyo, there are four English language newspapers: International Herald-Tribune, Daily Yomiuiri, Mainichi Daily News and The Japan Times.
Thanks everyone. I just wanted to get a feel for how the print news was delivered in other big cities. Good info and certainly not too much, MsRobyn. I take it “East Shore” and “West Shore” refers to sides of the River Susqua?
The papers are published by Capital Newspapers, but that is a publishing services company set up by the two papers, providing production, sales, and distribution services for them.
The papers actually have two separate owners. The Wisconsin State Journal is owned by Lee Enterprises (a publicly held communications company headquartered in Davenport, Iowa), and The Capital Times is owned by The Capital Times Company, a private corporation. Lee Enterprises and The Capital Times Company each own 50% of Capital Newspapers.
The Examiner’s on the road to recovery! In fact, they just took a big step toward financial health by laying off 13 employees THREE WEEKS BEFORE FUCKING CHRISTMAS!
At least, uh, that’s what my “friend” told me.
Maybe now they can get their daily (non-audited) circulation up to …what … 10?
Sorry to hear about your “friend”.
Yeah, the East Shore comprises Harrisburg and Dauphin County and the West Shore comprises Cumberland County (Camp Hill and Carlisle being the two major towns there). For journalistic purposes, York and Lancaster are their own entities; each has its own newspaper. In fact, I think York has two papers.
Robin
(Arches eyebrow)