Buffalo News no longer printing a Monday paper

[butch rolle]

I'm in my mid 40s and sometimes I stop and contemplate whether my back issues are due to those massive Sunday papers I was delivering for the Buffalo News in the early 90s.

[ganesh]

6 hours ago, MarkyMannn said:

Thats great!  Just renewed my 96yo mother in laws subscription, $1,500 a year for the hard copy delivered.  She's not tech savvy at all.  So many articles in that paper, you read part, then directs you to a QR code.  Doesn't help her.  BTW that paper is Small....

$1500 ?  Are you saying the news paper costs $3 per day ? Wow.

[YoloinOhio]

6 hours ago, MarkyMannn said:

Thats great!  Just renewed my 96yo mother in laws subscription, $1,500 a year for the hard copy delivered.  She's not tech savvy at all.  So many articles in that paper, you read part, then directs you to a QR code.  Doesn't help her.  BTW that paper is Small....

1500???

[Jukester]

$1 for 6 months digital edition - have done this during the football season the last 3 years 

[YoloinOhio]

I get the Columbus dispatch daily (hard copy and digital) for 10/mo. I’m so perplexed as to why the buffalo news charges so much. The only day they don’t publish is Friday. 

[WotAGuy]

45 minutes ago, Jukester said:

$1 for 6 months digital edition - have done this during the football season the last 3 years 

Trying to get the overseas phone support people to cancel the subscription isn’t worth paying to read their stuff. I use the @boyst method. 

[Old Coot]

3 hours ago, BontitaBills said:

I delivered the courier express to Youngstown residents for 5 years.  Up at 4:30am every morning before school.

I did too in Snyder. Winter at 5 am in Buffalo is cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

[djp14150]

6 hours ago, Old Coot said:

Sadly print newspapers are a dying breed. With instant news on the web their main reason for being is shrinking along with us old folks who look forward to reading the paper over a cup of coffee in the morning.

 

Who remembers the Courier Express?

 

There was also a Polish language daily.

I recall the courier express and Tonawanda news.

 

i was a Buffalo News delivery boy as a teen and also delivered the pennysaver flyer once a week.

 

local newspapers people really need to support.  They ideally provide oversight over the local govt, police, and businesses.  Many do not realize these things.

 

 

[NoHuddleKelly12]

8 hours ago, Augie said:

 

We will need a daily celebration of life, just in case. 

 

The Atlanta Journal Constitution plans to be 100% digital by the end of the year. No more print, any day of the week. Think of all those young paper boys out of work! 

I get the AJC Sunday paper and this one really stings Augie—I’m weird like that I guess—I’m a Gen Xer but I love the experience of reading the actual newspaper and not endless popup scrolling on my phone. I figured the size of the metro market and healthy subscriber base relatively speaking would insulate the print version, but alas…

[Mike in Horseheads]

8 minutes ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:

I get the AJC Sunday paper and this one really stings Augie—I’m weird like that I guess—I’m a Gen Xer but I love the experience of reading the actual newspaper and not endless popup scrolling on my phone. I figured the size of the metro market and healthy subscriber base relatively speaking would insulate the print version, but alas…

Sunday papers were great thing, big sports page, colored comics, a pile of ad's and lots of news and features. Why they haven't just kept Sunday as a print copy and made the rest of the week digital makes no sense.  The local paper The Elmira Star Gazette is worthless now, they mail it to you which shows how current it is and theres no Saturday edition you get the Sunday edition in the mail Saturday LOL 

[Thurman#1]

12 hours ago, MarkyMannn said:

Thats great!  Just renewed my 96yo mother in laws subscription, $1,500 a year for the hard copy delivered.  She's not tech savvy at all.  So many articles in that paper, you read part, then directs you to a QR code.  Doesn't help her.  BTW that paper is Small....

 

 

$1500 a year, delivered? Where do you live, Papua, New Guinea?

[Chandler#81]

Delivering newspapers was the top job of my youth. Sad to see it die.

[davefan66]

Miss what an actual newspaper used to mean. Good articles presenting the news I had not heard yet, Comics and Sunday ads

 

Now? Most of what we read in a newspaper is news that’s a few days old. And in today’s standards, that’s ancient.

 

Websites, message boards, twitter, news apps all deliver instant reporting of what’s going on.  I could see the Buffalo News gone in 5 years. It is unsustainable in its present form. 

Edited 5 hours ago by davefan66

[machine gun kelly]

14 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

That paper has been on the downswing since Larry Felser retired.

I know you meant this as a joke, but Mr. Felser was such a kind man.  He was good friends with my father who worked at the BN for 44 years.  It was my college job, and paid for my bachelors degree at Oswego.  My last year, I moved up from being a part time driver and hopper, to delivering inter-office mail.  Yes, to my young friends, there was a time when there was no internet, so I took those Manila envelopes all day for 9hours roaming the halls dropping off people’s inter-office  mail.  It gave me an opportunity to get to know most of the employees in the building.  Very fond memories of Mr. Felser, Van a couple of times, Murray Light , the editor, and even drove Stan Lipsey (the publisher) to the airport.

 

Other than a trip down memory lane, I feel bad for my Dad who had work3d there from 17-61, minus his four years in the Navy during Korea.  Now the BN is produced I believe in Ohio.  What a waste, but digital media has taken over.

[HOUSE]

Save the trees

 

 

[Mike R]

Terrible newspaper that went down hill years ago. Won’t be long before they fold.

[gjv]

How Sad.  Just another light turned-off in WNY.

[Pete]

Sad.  I love newspapers 

Nothing like having coffee with a newspaper.  Reading my phone is not the same 

[ganesh]

13 minutes ago, gjv said:

How Sad.  Just another light turned-off in WNY.

Aren’t the same folks generating the content.  It might impact the guys who managed the press machines ;; but on the flip side it may have created jobs for IT engineers and cloud engineers. 

[Pete]

My old job I went to many homes all around Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

 

One customer had a beautiful property, hidden off a busy road.  Beautiful locale.  I often dealt with her sister in law. The customer hoarded newspapers.  I’ve never seen anything like it.  Her family talked to her, about getting rid of newspapers, with little progress.  There are two trailers filled with newspaper, and the house is hard to move around, because so much newspaper.

 

I was told that the hoarder was a genius with photographic memory.  She would say stuff such as  “Do you know where my green pen is?  Last I saw it was July 12, 2022, and it was sitting next to a Huck Fin book and Red Candle. 

 

It always cracked me up when I would arrive in the early am, and there would be a newspaper on the front porch