and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 07/20/2011 8:30:40 AM PDT by abb
The Chicago Tribune Media Group announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement to print the Chicago Sun-Times and seven of parent Sun-Times Media’s suburban newspapers.
Printing will be moved from the Sun-Times plant on Ashland Avenue to the Tribune's Freedom Center, with work phased in during the fall. The Tribune has distributed Sun-Times products since 2007.
"They are our No. 1 client, they are our largest client," said Becky Brubaker, senior vice president of manufacturing and distribution for Chicago Tribune Media Group. "It was an opportunity for both of us to expand services."
The Tribune did not disclose the terms of the deal, but Brukbaker said it had "meaningful value" for both companies.
The Sun-Times' Pioneer Press publications are printed by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, an arrangement that will continue, said Brubaker.
With this agreement, the Sun-Times has effectively exited the print manufacturing and distribution business.
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(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/471249-_State_of_the_Industry_in_a_Generational_Digital_Shift.php
‘State of the Industry’ in a Generational, Digital Shift
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/471259-Media_General_2Q_Station_Revenue_Drops.php
Media General 2Q Station Revenue Drops
http://www.suntimes.com/business/6598126-417/sun-times-media-chicago-tribune-enter-into-print-production-contract.html
Sun-Times Media, Chicago Tribune enter into print production contract
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110719/NEWS06/110719847/sun-times-newspapers-will-roll-off-rival-tribune-presses#ixzz1SeQD8Pad
Sun-Times newspapers will roll off rival Tribune presses
Read more: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110719/NEWS06/110719847/sun-times-newspapers-will-roll-off-rival-tribune-presses#ixzz1SevgGYB9
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Features/Article/Critical-Thinking—How-Can-Newspapers-Boost-Readership-Among-the-18-30-Age-Group-
Critical Thinking: How Can Newspapers Boost Readership Among the 18-30 Age Group?
>http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Features/Article/Critical-Thinking—How-Can-Newspapers-Boost-Readership-Among-the-18-30-Age-Group-
Critical Thinking: How Can Newspapers Boost Readership Among the 18-30 Age Group?<
Seriously...that is funny right there.
It’s early here in California. This is the best morning news I’ve seen. Now, if only the NY Slimes will just go under this year.
Think about it.
The Sun Times has decided it makes more sense financially to lay off 400 employees and outsource its printing operations to its arch competitor, emerging from bankruptcy, over whom it has little control.
Both of these clunks are desperate ... one for assuming so much risk, and the other for undercutting so much on price.
The remaining questions: (1) How long before they merge these dogs and put at least one out of its misery; and (2) How long before the unions and Internet take down the surviving company?
people only subscribe so that they can read Gene Siskel and Mike Royko...
Check out the Kaplan story.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/07/19/job-cuts-coming-to-tribune-company/
Job Cuts Coming To Tribune Company
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/capital-land/2011/07/newspaper-chain-president-admits-failing-pay-taxes
Newspaper chain president admits failing to pay taxes
http://www.smartmoney.com/news/ON/?story=ON-20110719-000358
Washington Post Announces Executive Shakeup At Higher Ed Unit
The commie Sun Times going under would be the best news I’ve had in a while.
HAPPY DANCE!!
Newspaper chain president admits failing to pay taxes
The president of a local community newspaper chain has pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes.
Peter Labovitz, the president of Connection Newspapers, admitted that he didn’t pay more than $940,000 in employment and income taxes to the Internal Revenue Service between 2002 and 2008.
He pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to two counts of failing to pay taxes.
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Prosecutors said Labovitz could face up to two years in prison and a $200,000 fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 27.
At the time that book was published, the cracks in the mass media was starting to happen: VCR's were starting to change TV viewing habits, televisions network dominance were starting to be challenged by "mini networks" that could suddenly get cheap satellite TV access, and the first online networks such as Source and the early CompuServe were starting to bypass the newspapers when it came to fast news delivery.
Today, what Toffler prophesied in 1980 has become 21st Century reality, what with 100+ channel digital cable TV, 150+ channel small-dish satellite TV, 80+ station satellite radio and ESPECIALLY the public Internet. Indeed, the modern "smart" cellphone has hyper-accelerated this change, what with people doing newsgathering and sending on Twitter messages, Facebook posts, still images and even video from their cellphones. (Indeed, look at what happened to former Seinfeld actor Michael Richards and USC running back Marc Tyler--both were caught on cellphone cameras saying highly inappropriate things.)
This is one of the favorite quotes that I have run across in the past few years of studying the history of communications. It’s from a 10/27/1964 speech by David Sarnoff, then CEO of RCA.
THE COMPUTER’S IMPACT ON THE FUTURE
“The time is soon coming when these computer memories will be capable of storing up to 100 million bits of information, retrievable in fractional millionths of a second. For external memories, the goal is a trillion bits, possibly advancing later to capacities that are many times greater. By these means we can hope to store all of the information that is presently contained in all the world’s libraries.
The computer itself will become the hub of a vast network of remote data stations and information banks feeding into the machine at transmission rates of a billion or more bits of information a second.
Laser channels will vastly increase both data capacity and the speeds with which it is transmitted.
Eventually, a global communications network handling voice, data, and facsimile will instantly link man to machine - or machine to machine - by land, air, underwater, and space circuits.
We will see computer switchboards in space, similar to those presently in operation on the ground, routing in milliseconds any communication to and from virtually any point in the world.
It will be possible eventually for any individual sitting in his office, laboratory, or home to query a computer on any available subject and within seconds to receive an answer-by voice response, in hard copy or photographic reproduction, or on a large display screen.
The same broadband channels that accommodate the TV picture signal can also transmit masses of computer data at ultrahigh speed for instant display.
One day, we will receive our newspapers and technical publications, photocomposed by a computer, by direct display on a wall screen in the home or office. If we wish to retain any part of them for further reading or reference, it can instantly be produced in electrophotographic copy.
As computers become amenable to simple commands, they will become as indispensable to education as the reference library. Indeed, they will become tomorrow’s reference library, used by every student from the upper elementary levels through university.”
Here’s a link to the whole speech.
David Samoff, “The Keynote Address,” afips, pp.3, 1964 Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1964
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