[email protected] wrote: > Also also, Advance owns all of the suburban weeklies. If they want to > single-handedly re-shape the way news is delivered in Cleveland, they > can. > > I am telling you, the Plain Dealer outlives the Akron Beacon-Journal, > the Repository in Canton and the Vindy in Youngstown.
Your WNNDL Northeast Ohio correspondent checks in... Without Advance's financials in front of me, I'd have to agree with that last statement...and most in Northeast Ohio would probably agree. Indeed, there's a pesky rumor that the Beacon Journal (no dash) is again up for sale, and that Advance is looking to buy it and combine it with the PD. I'd not at all be surprised to see the PD and ABJ (and more?) combine forces. I don't think there's a big enough market for two big dailies here now, and don't think Black Press (ABJ's current owner) has the stomach to hang on in this economy. I'd almost bet the house on some sort of PD/ABJ combination by the end of 2009, if not sooner...I just don't know what it'll be. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
