Isaac
Years ago

The Age set to reduce sports content

Spotted this in today's edition of Crikey - emphasis added:

News has emerged that in the next few weeks there will be big cut backs in page numbers. The paper's most popular sections - Green Guide, Money, Insight, Sport, and A2 are all about to lose pages, and special sections and news may be in the gun as well.

This follows the dropping of Friday's form guide last week, which has resulted in a record number of over 600 reader complaints. The guide was cut, incredibly, on the eve of the Golden Slipper in Sydney, which is a bit like blocking up the chimney the night before Christmas.

Given that basketball fights for space in The Age and SMH as it is, this won't help.

Hopefully some big derbies between the Tigers and Dragons will demand coverage.

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the_champ33
Years ago

That is a total disgrace. Sport is a huge part of the newspaper and one section I always look forward to reading daily.

Shame on The Age

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Anonymous
Years ago

SMH in Sydney dedicates very little to basketball. Usually just standard AAP stuff. Maybe as little as 5 or 6 SMH-generated articles a season.

The Age I think is a bit better.

All the more reason for the NBL to significantly step up it's net presence.

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Isaac
Years ago

A 36ers fan who moved to Sydney would seriously struggle with basketball and the SMH - it is page after page after page of rugby. They have clubs in financial trouble, clubs struggling at the bottom of the ladder, and all that - same situations and stories, just blanket coverage and following!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Not just the SMH, Daily Telegraph doesn't give much to basketball either. 98% preview/review of games. Not a whole lot more (unless the Kings are threatening to go bust).

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Fill Smythe
Years ago

Thank God we've got Boti!

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Anonymous
Years ago

the sections they are cutting back are the reason i get the age every day... damn

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Spicey
Years ago

Why are they cutting pages back? Are they replacing them with other content or just having a paper with less pages?

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Isaac
Years ago

Might cost them a lot to generate the content? From the Crikey article, it seems that the paper are still getting good ad sales, just often at a discounted rate.

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me
Years ago

Major daily papers are struggling with increased print and paper costs, reduced circulations and a very competetive advertising marketplace.

sadly the media is heading faster down the track of...if it doesnt pay its way..it aint gonna stay.

So if people arent paying to be in the sport section, then the sport section gets smaller.

The days of the newspapers, TV news..and especially TV current affairs providing a balanced and important review of society are gone, watch media watch on a monday night to see how the almighty dollar decides what you read and watch.

oohh cant wait for big brother. :)

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