The NYT and The Athletic

Carolina didn't send any out of town media during its trip to LA and Anaheim. Only one was Bally Sports TV.

 

Franchises don’t send media.

 

Brooks Kubena hired as The Athletic's new Eagles writer:

https://x.com/BKubena/status/1718991803808919678?s=20

 

So The Athletic has a dedicated Miami Hurricanes beat writer. Miami played at home on Saturday. The beat writer was in Jacksonville as the third or fourth wheel on Fla-Ga.

 

Miami played Virginia. The No. 3 story off the Cocktail Party will dwarf the traffic from that Miami-UVA game. And given how The Athletic is staffing things, it's a numbers business.

 

My subscription for $1 per month for two years is expiring and my price is jumping to $7.99/month. Given that I read maybe one article per month, I went to cancel and was offered $9.99 for 1 year.
I would have stayed for the same deal I was on, or up to $3/month, so I jumped at the offer.
At least they will take all $9.99 at once instead of taking $1 out of my PayPal each month.

 

Thanks for the reminder! My deal expires this month. No chance I'm paying $7.99 a month. I imagine they'll do a Black Friday deal again and then I'll just cancel and sign up again under another email address, like I did the last two years.

 

Back in the print subscription days, the word for that cancellation/re-subscribe merry go round was “churn.”

 

About to do the same with the WaPo. I read several stories a day, but my renewal is supposed to be $130 or something, which is a wee bit too much.

 

I canceled with them before for that same reason. Took about 4-6 weeks to get an offer at my price point.

 

The Times, without prompting, added Games to my subscription today even though they aren’t charging me a dime for it.

 

Update. Canceled, and they immediately offered me a one-year rate of $50 to retain. I took it.