JRC booted out of Mass.

[KP]

GateHouse adds Taunton (who competed mildly with Brockton for Taunton and surrounding towns to the north) and Fall River.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/12/01/journal_register_selling_mass_newspapers_to_gatehouse_media/

 

[slappy4428]

Is this the end of Dino?

 

[BYH]

forking sweet.

fork you Bob.

 

[Bob_Jelloneck]

And the whores I rode in on??

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Seems like JRC got a good price: $70 million for two papers with a combined 30K circulation and a few weeklies. So, much as we'd like to, I don't think we can see this as a negative for JRC, whose stock price increased after the announcement of the sale.

 

[CarlSpackler]

Think you can see it as a negative for the poor saps that work at those papers though.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Think you can see it as a negative for the poor saps that work at those papers though.

They are free of JRC now, so that probably isn't a negative unless the new owner cuts staff. But since JRC operates pretty lean, there likely isn't anything to cut.

 

[slappy4428]

Think you can see it as a negative for the poor saps that work at those papers though.

They are free of JRC now, so that probably isn't a negative unless the new owner cuts staff. But since JRC operates pretty lean, there likely isn't anything to cut.

Dino.

 

[sporting_guista]

Liberation day for those poor bastards in Taunton and Fall River.

 

[wickedwritah]

So now Gatehouse owns the following dailies:

from CNC:
Framingham
Waltham
Milford
Dedham

from Ledger/Enterprise Newsmedia:
Quincy
Brockton

from JRC:
Taunton
Fall River

KP, Taunton did more than nominally compete with Brockton. Brockton was putting out a Taunton edition seven days. Expect circulation at the Enterprise to dip further as they redirect people toward the Gazette.

And I don't see how Gatehouse doesn't make cuts.

 

[happygirl]

Not much more to cut.

 

[wickedwritah]

Agreed, but how many times have we said that in the past, happy?