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#201 Jackerbie

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Posted 05 April 2019 - 11:28 AM

Glacier Media continuing to make strides in the online world. They have just purchased Kelowna's digital media brand Castanet for $22 mil. 



#202 Mike K.

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Posted 05 April 2019 - 12:53 PM

That's pretty good. How many visitors would Castanet see in any given month?


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#203 Jackerbie

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Posted 05 April 2019 - 01:13 PM

That's pretty good. How many visitors would Castanet see in any given month?

 

According to their advertising page, they average 430,000 unique visitors per week. 1.6mil visits per week averaging 5.73 pages per visit, for a total of 9.4mil page views per week. All number from here: https://www.castanet...elowna-2018.pdf


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#204 Mike K.

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Posted 05 April 2019 - 01:15 PM

Very good, thank you.


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#205 Matt R.

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Posted 05 April 2019 - 10:44 PM

Castanet.net is pretty OG when it comes to Canadian internet.

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Posted 06 April 2019 - 06:08 PM

Was in Save On today and happened to notice the T-C has the cajones to raise their retail price to $2.75 - pretty ballsy IMO inasmuch as entities like McDonald's and BC Transit literally had to give the rag away for free and at that more often than not still had copies left over each day.


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#207 Redd42

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Posted 07 April 2019 - 12:18 AM

Glacier Media continuing to make strides in the online world. They have just purchased Kelowna's digital media brand Castanet for $22 mil. 

 

Wow! Castanet and the price paid for it seem like so pre millennium. Like internet bubble.



#208 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 07 April 2019 - 01:29 AM

Was in Save On today and happened to notice the T-C has the cajones to raise their retail price to $2.75 - pretty ballsy IMO inasmuch as entities like McDonald's and BC Transit literally had to give the rag away for free and at that more often than not still had copies left over each day.


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#209 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 July 2019 - 05:30 PM

2018 usa newspaper circulation figures hit their lowest ever levels since records started to be kept in 1940 even with digital added in.

 

revenues down 13%.



#210 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 19 September 2019 - 12:53 AM

the glacier media owned prince george citizen is converting from a paid daily to a free weekly on September 28 with a limited home delivery area.

#211 todd

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Posted 05 November 2019 - 10:21 AM

Just about to the ladder out to retrieve one of my newspaper subscriptions neatly wrapped in an elastic on top of the hedge.

#212 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 20 November 2019 - 05:57 PM

The Toronto Star is shutting down its StarMetro commuter newspapers across Canada, cutting 73 jobs.

The final editions in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Halifax will be published Dec. 20, a spokesperson for Torstar Corp., the parent company of both newspaper brands, told CBC News in an email. 

 

"Commuter readers are using their smartphones, laptops and tablets to access their news," Bob Hepburn said in an email.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...osing-1.5365326



#213 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 06:16 AM

4.5 years after he was cut raeside is back at the tc i guess.  a month or two after "the capital" announced they'd be carrying raeside.

 

 

 

 

 

The year just ending might be remembered for many things, and you will find hints of a few news stories on this page. And for a few moments, think of the messenger — a cartoonist named Adrian Raeside, quite simply one of the best cartoonists in Canada.

 

Raeside returned to the Times Colonist in the fall, after an absence that was far too long. Our readers quickly responded, saying they were glad to see him back. And so are we.

 

https://www.timescol...oons-1.24042761


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#214 AllseeingEye

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 10:55 AM

Frankly the fact that Gary Larson and the Far Side is making a comeback is an infinitely more exciting development IMO. Never found Raeside to be particularly amusing.



#215 Mike K.

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 11:00 AM

Is it a comeback or a digital re-publication of his old stuff? He was against the Internet so never put effort into a website, until now, after years of his comics appearing everywhere without royalties.

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#216 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 11:02 AM

no it's new works.  he's 62 or 63 and lives in whistler.  probably just back on contract per cartoon.


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#217 AllseeingEye

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 11:07 AM

^ Yup. It'll be limited in the sense he's not going back into full blown syndication but new strips will appear occasionally on the site.



#218 Mike K.

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 02:01 PM

no it's new works. he's 62 or 63 and lives in whistler. probably just back on contract per cartoon.


Oh I’m referring to Larson.
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#219 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 02:12 PM

oh i see.



#220 todd

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Posted 29 December 2019 - 05:03 PM

Just about to the ladder out to retrieve one of my newspaper subscriptions neatly wrapped in an elastic on top of the hedge.


In the end got one of those reacher claws from Dollarama probably was a bit faster.

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