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Cutting back to once a week and charging to read online? Good luck with that business model.... doing less and charging more.

I called this almost a year ago when one of their people was trying to sell me some
Ads.

Well according to the Post website today they are going to combine into one paper and do only a once a week paper. Everything including the website will be subscription only so their only subscribers will be older people who don’t use the internet, business will be stupid to advertise with them because it will be a waste of good advertising money.

People you don’t need to subscribe to this junk rag, if you do what will you get? Week old news? You can get current new here or by gossip anywhere in the county!

Let’s see how long it lasts!

They should fail, after all who cares about some blue haired old lady's apple pie recipe, or how big of a buck cousin Billy Bob killed or what punk scored a touchdown on Friday night!!!

They're going to keep the pay site? wow. That will fail miserably.

They'll have trouble surviving more than three years if they continue with that paywall. There's already another site being built with advertisers lined up.

No one i suppose..I sure don't

Who really cares if that dump truck company you work for shuts the doors.

Who really cares about the local gossip pages....Thats all they are anyway.

http://www.jeffersonpost.co...to-combine

We all knew both would never survive.

Ashe Post & Times

Horrible name really.

The Ashe Mountain Times would easily qualify. Even if it were to switch to a free publication, it would easily sell 100 subscriptions just to the attorneys in the various counties it serves. Almost every Hotel and Motel buys a few subscriptions for their guests.

(b) To qualify as a newspaper eligible to publish any of items listed in subsection (a) of this section in a particular county, a newspaper must meet all of the following criteria:

(1) The newspaper has a content that appeals to the public generally.

(2) The newspaper must have at least 100 paid subscribers and distribute at least 1,000 copies per issue in the county where the newspaper is seeking qualification.

(3) The newspaper's paid subscriber distribution is not entirely limited geographically to one community or section of the county where the newspaper is seeking qualification.

(4) In the county where the newspaper is seeking qualification, any person who wishes to do so may subscribe to the newspaper.

(5) The newspaper must have regularly and continuously published for at least one day in each calendar week for at least 50 of the 52 consecutive weeks immediately preceding the date of the application.

(c) Prior to publishing any of the items listed in subsection (a) in a particular county, the owner, publisher, or other authorized officer or employee of the newspaper shall submit to the clerk of superior court of that county a sworn affidavit that the newspaper meets all of the criteria listed in subsection (b) of this section. The sworn affidavit shall be accompanied by a fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00). A newspaper may qualify in more than one county. A separate application, and application and renewal fee, shall be submitted for each county in which a newspaper seeks to qualify.

(d) Upon filing the sworn affidavit and paying filing fee required by subsection (c) of this section, the newspaper shall be qualified to publish in the county any of the items listed in subsection (a) of this section. The newspaper shall remain qualified in that county as long as it continues to meet the requirements in subsections (b) and (e) of this section. A newspaper may be disqualified from publishing any of the items listed in subsection (a) of this section by order of a superior court judge.

(e) If qualified, a newspaper shall pay an annual renewal fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the clerk of superior court in each county in which it seeks to remain qualified to publish any of the items listed in subsection (a) of this section.

(f) The Clerk shall remit, at least monthly, to the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts the affidavits filed and the fees collected in accordance with subsections (c) and (e) this section. The Director shall keep, by county, an index and record of all such affidavits, initial filing fees, and renewal fees, which shall be a public record.

You have the post and the Wall street journal confused.

a newspaper has to be a subscription paper in order to run legal ads. Those ads are very expensive. For instance, an ad for a foreclosure that runs 2 or 3 columns is about $1000 - $2000 each time it runs. They don't have to charge much for subscriptions or have a lot of subscribers, just enough so they can do the legal ads. The notice to creditors for dead people is also pretty expensive. So don't worry about how many people subscribe, they just need enough so they can run legal ads.

What does that matter?

what is the political view of the new owner?

I don't know why anyone would buy a newspaper business, but ****, apparently someone thought it was a good idea. I haven't paid for a newspaper in 10 years at least.

I'm not surprised. I did not have you picked as a big reader. Honestly, I did not pick you as a reader at all.

No newspaper in Ashe is worthy of paying for, print or online...

Strictly business, but I'd say they'll combine to one paper and make people pay for the actual print and for their website. Why wouldn't they? No competition of a free paper and enough people will be dumb enough to pay for whatever "news" they provide.