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bearcrawls

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What is with the Tribune for charging people a membership fee to read their articles. Your a second rate paper! There are alot of successful FREE websites that manage to stay afloat. The difference is they have very informative articles on their website, unlike the fishwrap you call journalism. So let the advertisers pay the fees and let us read for free, that's the american way. You only publish 2 articles a week on UNC football, so it's not like I'm missing much. Later trib! You :o !
 
$9 a month seems pretty steep but I imagine this will be the new wave of the future. I bet adverts and subscriptions are down (since everyone could read them online) and they need to make up their cost somehow.

It's tough since the sports a local paper covers (local college and high school sports) are really geared towards a small group of people that actually care. Similar to KFKA, covering high school and college sports where few people actually go to the games let alone listen to them on the radio.

IMHO, it's almost more of a public service than a money making venture.
 
Now that's funny! They really think anyone would give one penny for the "articles" they write? I'm almost glad they are charging now so I won't be tempted to read that crap
 
Brian said:
$9 a month seems pretty steep but I imagine this will be the new wave of the future. I bet adverts and subscriptions are down (since everyone could read them online) and they need to make up their cost somehow.

It's tough since the sports a local paper covers (local college and high school sports) are really geared towards a small group of people that actually care. Similar to KFKA, covering high school and college sports where few people actually go to the games let alone listen to them on the radio.

IMHO, it's almost more of a public service than a money making venture.
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When the online viewing drops 75% so goes the online advertisement. Companies will not be willing to advertise on a pay site like they do on a free site. It goes hand in hand. Bad business move! :thumbdown:
 
Brian said:
It's tough since the sports a local paper covers (local college and high school sports) are really geared towards a small group of people that actually care. Similar to KFKA, covering high school and college sports where few people actually go to the games let alone listen to them on the radio.

IMHO, it's almost more of a public service than a money making venture.
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And we do it without charging any subscription fees--online or otherwise. :thumb:

Which is why I'm always pointing out that it'd be nice if people would actually show up in person for the coaches show to support the business hosting it as well as support the teams. :mrgreen:
 
They started that last week I think, brought the site up, saw they were charging, laughed for a few minutes and then shut it down never to return. Actually, that was the most entertainment I've ever gotten from that paper so maybe it was worth it! :lol:
 
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