Blade circulation declines 10,000 from last year
Written by Kristen Rapin | | krapin@toledofreepress.comThe Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) reported a decrease in subscribers of The Blade in its Sept. 30 FAS-FAX report.
ABC reported a drop in The Blade’s Sunday circulation from 144,198 in September 2008 to 133,847 in September 2009.
Monday through Friday numbers dropped from 115,073 last September to 104,148 this September.
According to ABC’s reports The Blade has dropped 18.4 percent in Sunday circulation since March 2006. Monday through Friday circulation has dropped 18.2 percent in the same time period.
The Blade’s director of circulation, Dick Fuller, did not respond to requests for comment.
ABC reported that the top 3 newspapers in the country are The Wall Street Journal with 2,024,269 subscribers, USA Today with 1,900,116 readers and The New York Times with a circulation of 927,851.
ABC releases FAS-FAX twice a year with the circulation averages from six months.
Cancelled my subscription after their disgustingly biased and in the tank for obama reporting during the 2008 election. Complaining to Jack Lessenbury, ombudsman, was useless. This past Saturday I found a copy in my mailbox. After looking it over I concluded my decision to cancel was a very prudent thing to do.
Wonder why the blade won’t comment on this story?????LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
This comment was posted on October 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pmDoes this really surprise anyone? Perhaps people are starting to see the daily rag for what it really is…a perfect liner for the bottom of my bird cage.
This comment was posted on October 29th, 2009 at 1:18 pmIt’s hard to tell which is dropping faster – subscribers to the liberal Toledo rag or Toledo’s population.
Maybe the people have finally had enough.
Watch for Kommissar Kaptur to push a government bailout for the hacks over at the Blade.
This comment was posted on October 29th, 2009 at 2:13 pm