Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.

[Dave Doherty]

Hi Donna-

Why run off the subscribers?

Because paper subscribers require printing presses, which require millions 
of dollars in capital expense, massive rolls of paper, which require 
millions of dollars in operating expense, and a legion of troops on the 
street to assemble and deliver the end product - one at a time - to 
individual subscribers or - twenty at a time - to coffee shops and honor 
boxes.

Paper makes no sense at all when you can distribute your product 
electronically.

Tradintional subscribers require paper. Ergo, traditional subscribers make 
no economical sense at all, and management should do what it can to maximize 
electronic delivery and eliminate traditional paper subscribers.

-d




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>; "Bill O'Neill" 
<billohno@gmail.com>; "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
Cc: "boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Times Co. threatens to shutter Boston Globe.


>
> At 03:11 PM 4/5/2009, Dan Billings wrote:
>>I have both the Portland Press Herald and the Times Record delivered.
>
> The Boston Herald used to give us Bostonians a 1 star (the paper that is 
> printed at about 1 AM, so it gets the late sports).  Now, since they moved 
> their plant out to western Mass to save money, we get a newspaper that 
> prints at 9 pm, and has NO late anything.  So we cancelled our 
> subscription for home delivery.  The Globe still gives us the 1 star, but 
> who knows for how much longer?  And yes it matters home delivery customers 
> are still the ones who are loyal to the print edition, so why run them 
> off?
>