Knoxville paper to charge for TV pullout

[chuckydoll]

As an optional section available only to people who have home delivery. This is effective in mid-April.

Given the financial troubles in the newspaper industry, don't be surprised if other big-city dailies start charging for their TV sections.

 

[pbf1]

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ditched theirs.

 

[ShawnHill1]

As an optional section available only to people who have home delivery. This is effective in mid-April.

Given the financial troubles in the newspaper industry, don't be surprised if other big-city dailies start charging for their TV sections.

The Los Angeles Times started doing the same thing about a couple years. Given that I can get my TV listings both online and on-screen, the newspaper listings are just an obsolete thing now. I do believe some of the regional newspapers here (such as the Long Beach Press-Telegram, L.A. Daily News, and Orange County Register) still offer weekly TV guides in their Sunday editions, though I can't tell you for sure.

 

[KML0224]

The February 24th edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer still had an insert. As far as I know, The Hartford Courant does as well. Seeing as Tribune owns them, along with the FOX and CW station in the Hartford region, what better way to get free advertising?

 

[genius]

Albquerque Journal still has theirs, however, two things of note:

1. They did away with daily listings several years ago.
2. Their rival Scripps-owned Albuquerque Tribune, whom they have been under a JOA for the past decade, finally was shut-down and published their final issue back on the 23rd.

 

[anotherguyTN]

The Memphis Commercial Appeal (Also owned by Scripps) has begun only including the Sunday TV section in copies to subscribers. Along with that they have stopped home delivery except by mail for outlying areas.

In Jackson, TN The Jackson Sun has only included the Sunday TV section in papers within their local area for the past year or so. When I pick up one in Jackson or Alamo, where I live, they include the TV section, but in Dyersburg, about 40 miles away, they don't.

 

[R.D.P.]

I can do you one better.  My local newspaper no longer carries any form of a TV schedule. (Selma Times Journal)

This includes no weekly TV insert. 

What a shame and a disgrace that is.  There are still many in my hometown, that depends on a TV schedule to let them know what's coming on.

At least I can still get a weekly TV insert from the Birmingham News. 

R.D.P. <><

 

[jal41]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (co-owned with WSB-TV, although the AJC operates seperately in a seperate office from the TV and radio cluster) still has theirs. Same with the suburban Marietta Daily Journal.

The problem is the 200+ channels available. They can only print about 30 channels. As sad as the situation is, the only way listings are going to be available is electronically via the internet, set-top EPG's, and for a limited time the TV Guide Channel. (I say a limited time on the TV Guide Channel because I have a feeling the listings will go away in favor of more tabloid programming.)

 

[ixnay]

Albquerque Journal still has theirs, however, two things of note:

1. They did away with daily listings several years ago.
2. Their rival Scripps-owned Albuquerque Tribune, whom they have been under a JOA for the past decade, finally was shut-down and published their final issue back on the 23rd.

For some reason I've never considered papers working under a JOA to be truly feudin' papers. ;D

Closer to topic: I buy the Wilmington (DE) News Journal every Sun. and its TV section is still free to non subscribers. I agree, though, such sections are fast becoming dinosaurs. I wouldn't be surprised if more and more rags made like the LAT and the KNS.

ixnay