Thursday 7 October 2010

The decline and decline of the Townsville Bulletin

North Coast Voices reports that the Australian Newspaper History Group's October 2010 newsletter produced by Rod Kirkpatrick (which I can't find online) shows:

Four regional dailies had double-figure percentage declines in circulation for the three or six-month period to 30 June, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. They were: the Standard, Warrnambool, 16.45; the Gold Coast Bulletin, 15.31 per cent; the North West Star, Mount Isa, 12.98; and the Geelong Advertiser, 11.56. And the Townsville Bulletin, down 9.95 per cent, was only a whisker short of a double-figure dip.
Further to Anon's question in comments.  Unfortunately I can't find the original data, but as I understand it, the table show a -2.5% fall in the Bully's circulation in April-June with the 9.95% fall discussed in the text refers to the 6 months to end June.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry but I am a bit confused, the text says the bully is down 9.95 per cent but the table has them at 2.5 per cent down?

Anonymous said...

I just found the stats from the previous year where they were up something like 17 percent so really they are only 2 per cent down on last year which isnt bad considering all newspapers circulation is on decline
I know what you get at blogger and normally agree with you but you should your facts too

Anonymous said...

I just found the stats from the previous year where they were up something like 17 percent so really they are only 2 per cent down on last year which isnt bad considering all newspapers circulation is on decline
I know what you get at blogger and normally agree with you but you should your facts too