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Post by beaverdude on Oct 25, 2018 16:16:15 GMT -8
Now we get Fashion (best dressed issues) Cooking Historic 'sports' Replay of historic games Where are they now? issues Don't get me started on 'stories' that refers to SI TV for details Remember when sports news featured local teams... National team news was a box score in the back of the sports section. The internet relegated their sports reporting to last week's news.... It was adapt or die. |
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Post by kersting13 on Oct 25, 2018 22:48:45 GMT -8
Now we get Fashion (best dressed issues) Cooking Historic 'sports' Replay of historic games Where are they now? issues Don't get me started on 'stories' that refers to SI TV for details I honestly NEVER thought much of Sports Illustrated as a "sports magazine". It was just a bunch of good action photographs and flowery articles. The Sporting News was always more my style. Stats and facts. That said, I cut my teeth following my non-local favorite teams through the box scores in the daily newspapers, so I am very fond of box scores and stat sheets and leader boards, etc. and less interested in photographs and descriptions of games, and interviews with players. Sports Illustrated never filled a niche that I was interested in. |
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Post by sagebrush on Oct 26, 2018 8:18:00 GMT -8
Sporting News was also my mail carrier's favorite as well. His lunch spot was at the end of dead end street 3 deliveries before my house. Every now and then there was a mustard spot on it that happened while he was reading it. It was a running joke between us. After I was done with it, I'd put it back in my mail box so he could finish it. 😀
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Post by mbabeav on Oct 26, 2018 9:25:49 GMT -8
I don't know that there is a decent magazine left - the only thing good that is happening right now is that they are finally getting people willing to pay at least a bit for online content, which will keep the writers and reporters going. We have to allow for monetization of electronic media or Facebook and Twitter will be our only go to's for the latest stuff, and we all know how much fun it is to filter through all of the spam and fake news and commentary to said materials to maybe get good content with those platforms.
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Post by kersting13 on Oct 26, 2018 9:36:12 GMT -8
I don't know that there is a decent magazine left - the only thing good that is happening right now is that they are finally getting people willing to pay at least a bit for online content, which will keep the writers and reporters going. We have to allow for monetization of electronic media or Facebook and Twitter will be our only go to's for the latest stuff, and we all know how much fun it is to filter through all of the spam and fake news and commentary to said materials to maybe get good content with those platforms. I don't know much about the revenue streams of magazines, but I always thought that advertising revenue was a far bigger piece of their pie than subscriber dues or retail sales. It would seem that online content could use the same formula, but again, I'm only going from what could be a false assumption. That said, I have recently heard good things about "The Athletic" as an on-line pay site for sports news. Although, The Athletic only operates in about 30 different cities. I think they've stolen a lot of sports journalists that traditional media has let go. |
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Post by mbabeav on Oct 26, 2018 9:53:28 GMT -8
I don't know that there is a decent magazine left - the only thing good that is happening right now is that they are finally getting people willing to pay at least a bit for online content, which will keep the writers and reporters going. We have to allow for monetization of electronic media or Facebook and Twitter will be our only go to's for the latest stuff, and we all know how much fun it is to filter through all of the spam and fake news and commentary to said materials to maybe get good content with those platforms. I don't know much about the revenue streams of magazines, but I always thought that advertising revenue was a far bigger piece of their pie than subscriber dues or retail sales. It would seem that online content could use the same formula, but again, I'm only going from what could be a false assumption. That said, I have recently heard good things about "The Athletic" as an on-line pay site for sports news. Although, The Athletic only operates in about 30 different cities. I think they've stolen a lot of sports journalists that traditional media has let go. Normally subscriptions paid for most of production and delivery costs, it was advertising that brought in the profits. In newspapers, the real collapse came with Craig's list and the like, classified ads were the "gold mine" and when those faded, then so did newspapers. |
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Post by beaverdude on Oct 26, 2018 10:49:19 GMT -8
I don't know that there is a decent magazine left - the only thing good that is happening right now is that they are finally getting people willing to pay at least a bit for online content, which will keep the writers and reporters going. We have to allow for monetization of electronic media or Facebook and Twitter will be our only go to's for the latest stuff, and we all know how much fun it is to filter through all of the spam and fake news and commentary to said materials to maybe get good content with those platforms. The "modernization" that needs to happen is elimination of the subscription model. Google was able to create an empire selling ads and collecting "visitor" data. The downside is that fewer content producers will be needed since the geographic constraints for timely production (printing) and delivery don't exist in the interwebs. |
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Post by Werebeaver on Oct 27, 2018 7:34:08 GMT -8
Now we get Fashion (best dressed issues) Cooking Historic 'sports' Replay of historic games Where are they now? issues Don't get me started on 'stories' that refers to SI TV for details Honestly I don’t think l’ve opened a issue of SI since the 80’s. Used to read it religiously back in the 70’s. |
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