“Metrosport” in northern Greece turned the tenth sports activities newspaper to droop its publication within the final 14 years
The disaster within the media and particularly in newspapers continues unabated, with print media employees dwelling a cruel nightmare in the course of the years of the memos. And it’s not solely the political newspapers (the most recent sufferer is “Avgi”) which can be affected by the disaster within the press, but additionally the sports activities ones…
Final Wednesday one other sports activities newspaper, “Metrosport”, suspended its operation. Finish of an period for the historic sports activities newspaper of Thessaloniki, whose possession knowledgeable that “it’s closing the print version as a result of it doesn’t promote sheets that may preserve it and can spend money on its digital format”. The proprietor of the Metromedia group, Pavlos Andronis, argued, amongst different issues, that his newspaper had managed to promote solely 300-400 sheets, subsequently it was not sustainable. Nonetheless, it ought to be famous that about three months in the past the identical proprietor suspended the operation of the group’s web site mynews.gr.
See additionally: The sports activities newspaper Metrosport is closing
The period of memorabilia
Other than the way forward for “Metrosport”, it’s sure that the sports activities press is blowing the whistles, particularly for the reason that time when the memoranda began within the nation. It’s attribute – because the Harddog web site reported in its associated article – that 14 years in the past, in July 2010, eleven sports activities newspapers have been circulating nationwide: “Fos toun Spor”, “Filatlos”, “SportDay”, “Exedra”, “Champion”. “, “Derby”, “Inexperienced”, “Sports activities Hour”, “Rating Dwell”, “Anchovy” and “Cat”. The next 12 months (July 2011) ten remained as ‘Rating Dwell’ closed. And since then, in July 2021, there are solely 5 sports activities playing cards on the newsstands: “Fos”, “SportDay”, “Dwell Sport”, “Champion”, “Sports activities Hour”. It ought to be famous right here that within the meantime “Sportime” was closed for the second time, which deserted the printed version, continued in digital kind, however now solely exists as a canopy on the web…
In Thessaloniki, aside from “Metrosport”, the historic “Sports activities of the North” closed from 2010 till as we speak (in 2015) after 50 years of operation, whereas “Enviornment Press” additionally closed in 2021. And even the weekly “Forza” (pals near PAOK) is now solely accessible in digital format…
• In the dead of night interval of the memorials, we remind you that the “Philathlos” of G. had been closed (in 2011).
Kouri, which was launched on November 30, 1982, revolutionizing the sports activities press.
• In February 2011, “Rating Dwell”, a membership near AEK, which was launched for the primary time in April 2002, was closed.
• On March 18, 2012, “Exedra”, which had been launched in March 2008 by DOL, was blocked. “Exedra” was quickly established within the space, however in 2011 it was transferred to Michalis Androulidakis, in whose arms it collapsed.
• On February 9, 2013, “Derby Sports activities” additionally closed for good. Fila, near Panathinaikos, closed for ten days in the summertime of 2009 and was relaunched on June 17 as “Derby Information”.
• In 2017, the publication of “Purpose Information” by Giorgos Bombola’s Pegasus, which had been launched in March 2002, was stopped. The newspaper established itself in a short time within the sports activities press and was a number one participant in gross sales, however alongside the way in which it confronted monetary issues, like the entire group of Pegasus, and ceased circulation in June 2017.
Downhill with out finish
In whole, of the 15 sports activities newspapers that circulated in Greece in 2010, solely 5 remained on newsstands (“Fos”, “Sportday”, “Dwell Sport”, “Ora” and “Champion”). And to know the dimensions of the “downhill” in gross sales, it’s sufficient to have a look at what was occurring ten years in the past with the circulation of sports activities newspapers. So in 2014, in line with the information of the time, within the ten months of January – October, the sports activities newspapers of Athens misplaced a complete of two,400,211 pages in comparison with the corresponding interval of 2013. Particularly, their gross sales fell from 15,477,083 to 13,076,872 leaves. The day by day circulation of sports activities newspapers in 2014 was round 80,000 sheets, and with the dramatic decline in gross sales, the remaining sports activities newspapers reached a mean day by day circulation of solely 9,500 sheets in 2023.
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