Thursday, July 06, 2023

The StartleGram is no longer a seven-day daily

 Not in print, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is not

June 23, I saw an issue at one of the Denton library branches. It said: "Friday-Saturday, June 23-24." In other words, the StartleGram now has a pre-weekend bulldog issue. (I know "bulldog" is technically, in the past, a Saturday-Sunday weekender, but it's the word that works here.) And, it's not like it's printing a separate "three-star" for Denton, just 30 miles up the road from Cowtown.

And, even with the two days combined, it was 24 percent ads at 28 pages, not counting paid obits, of which there weren't that many.

That said, as I noted here a month or so ago, it should get rid of its Monday paper, if anything. The most recent one I eyeballed had a SEVEN percent adhole.

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