Friday Afternoon Price-Hike Story

Posted on January 9th, 2009 2:52pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Hold On To Your Effin Hat, Local News, Media

Starting February 9, the DMN will increase its newsstand price to $1. Currently the Monday-through-Saturday newspapers are a bargain at 75 cents. Economic factors and the cost of newsprint were two reasons for the price change. Oh, and the revenue at A.H. Belo fell 13 percent during the first nine months of 2008. I am kissing my paycheck. Thanks, Wick. Back to you, Zac.

13 comments

  1. Dear DMN,

    I think it’s time for this.

    Be an innovator, not an imitator. You know all the other kids will be doing it.

    @ 3:01 pm on January 9, 2009

  2. I can’t even find the Sunday DMN at my local Fort Worth gas station nowadays. They really are kicking themselves in the a$$.

    @ 3:09 pm on January 9, 2009

  3. A Literacy Survey in 2007 that found 12.6% of the adult population in Dallas, Tarrant, Denton and Collin counties had difficulty reading a newspaper. No wonder print products are in so much trouble. 17.3% of high school graduates surveyed reported much or some difficulty reading labels on food items or medicines. We are screwed!

    @ 3:32 pm on January 9, 2009

  4. Can I pay my dollar in “No Thanks” and “Close Ad” clicks?

    @ 3:48 pm on January 9, 2009

  5. OMG, that comment thread on the DMN site is hilarious. The commenters seem to hate the paper like many people hate Blockbuster video, yet they are reading the articles online. Go figure.

    @ 4:20 pm on January 9, 2009

  6. Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!

    Raising the rates for “FREE” news I get online amyway.

    DMN:
    Dumbass Morning News

    @ 6:07 pm on January 9, 2009

  7. We take the weekend edition of the DMN – yet for months our newspaper guy threw it every day. I see now they got our subscription correct…did they think I wanted to read all 7 days? I buy it for the coupons and to find out what’s going on in D/FW which for the most part, I won’t do anyway.

    @ 9:18 pm on January 9, 2009

  8. That place is fighting for its life. It doesn’t really know what to do, but no one else in the industry does either. (See why the Seattle P-I is about to shut down). The market has decided it doesn’t really need TDMN anymore. Not sure who the local watchdog will be when it disappears. Everyone who keeps laughing at this ought to consider that. (ex.: it’s not like the local TV stations are going to uncover deep corruption in the DISD like TDMN did)

    @ 6:34 am on January 10, 2009

  9. …and by the way, they raised the price from 50 to 75 cents only in May, so in a matter of nine months the price will have doubled.

    @ 11:21 am on January 10, 2009

  10. Printing presses are the buggy whips of the New Millenium. I live in a McClatchey town (Raleigh NC) and they have a daily stream of former employees carrying out cardboard boxes of “personal effects”.

    Tribune, Gannett, Cox, McClatchey, Lee …. they are all on life support due to their arrogant failure to gauge the impact of technology.

    Their op/ed pages ran off Conservatives years ago. Now their advertisers have bailed for the Internet. ….. sigh, sob, sniff.

    @ 2:01 pm on January 10, 2009

  11. There is a distinct quality lack at the DMN. It was not too long ago we actually had sections of the paper which contained more than a few headlines on Jessica Simpson and classifieds. It appears with the price increase they will be charging about 10 cents for each page of news.

    @ 6:06 pm on January 11, 2009

  12. What other industry gets to continue to raise its prices on a product no one wants anymore?

    @ 8:20 pm on January 11, 2009

  13. Is anyone going to pay $1 for Decherd’s Only Daily? Might as well fold up the tents now.

    @ 8:24 am on January 13, 2009