MidWeek insert changes

[LikaNui]

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The addition of the TV Guide into the Sunday editions of the Star-Advertiser was in the S-A paper twice today -- once in a box on the very front page, and also a full-page ad about it on the back page of the Sports section.
They say they've been hearing from their readers on this issue.

[mel]

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I have yet to see a printed edition of the new paper... I'm looking at it mostly online for now. A TV Guide will motivate me to buy the paper edition on Sunday.

[LikaNui]

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Hopefully the new Star-Advertiser will have a paper TV listing for the entire week in the Sunday paper as did the old Star-Bulletin.

Yes, there was an announcement to that effect in the new paper earlier this week, as part of a listing of features that would remain and/or be added.

[mel]

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Linda Dela Cruz has been with KSSK / KHVH / Clear Channel in some capacity doing the news for some years now... more recently as a part timer and fill-in.

As for MidWeek, I too am disappointed that the TV listings are gone. They could have at least leave the over the air and standard package cable channels in there since this is what most people get.

Hopefully the new Star-Advertiser will have a paper TV listing for the entire week in the Sunday paper as did the old Star-Bulletin.

Of course deleting the TV listing in the paper MidWeek could also be seen as a move to force users to buy the Sunday Star-Advertiser... if that paper continues to have a TV guide/listing for the entire week. I know the old Honolulu Advertiser discontinued their TV guide on Sunday a few years ago, and that upset some people.

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hi,i remember when midweek was downsized and it was when they had the midweek weekend and that was small like this new one and ldelacruz can be found on kssk and she's the news person there permanently and i read her last column last night on the new midweek.

this is a reason they dont have the tv grid's in midweek. hope this may help with anyone's thought's?

Well thank's for your time

[Nords]

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Well, Midweek shrank in size this week and far worse, no more tv listings! Booooo!

This is one of the trends that drove our house's TV watchers to Zap2It's online listings and eventually to TiVo.

As for the rest of Midweek, I look forward to using it in our worm tray and our compost bin...

[Walkoff Balk]

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Well, Midweek shrank in size this week

Rick Hamada can't be shrunk.

[Albert]

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Well, Midweek shrank in size this week and far worse, no more tv listings! Booooo!

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hi my apologies for posting here only i wish to share that senior midweek writer ldelacruz has left midweek and she's moving on to better thing's and most of the other's who write for midweek will still be their writer's.

well thank's for your time i truly and humbly apologize to the moderator of this thread for posting here.

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hi this is sansei and i just figured out that if anyone may wish to see the next midweek column before it come's out.go to midweek.com and you'd be able to see Jade moon's column or time's supermarket's ad's and you'd be able to read and anything before it come's out in print and this is no fib.if you were to check out midweek.com before it come's out,you'd be able to see if Jade's column or other column's that's on midweek.com before it come's out so i thought to share this with everyone.

well thank's for your time

[craigwatanabe]

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Those ads are what make Midweek a free newspaper. Kinda like bulk mail. As cumbersome as it is to mail carriers, without it your stamps would be much higher in cost.

[Nords]

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I'm an anything-on-newsprint reader, too - and I could never understand why people gripe (loudly!) about how there's nothing in MidWeek except ads. Very far from true . . .

We go back & forth on this every week too.

We cancelled our newspaper subscriptions a few years ago and I read the Star-Bulletin headlines online. (Advertiser's website is too ad-clogged & bloated, although SB is only marginally better.) Our other magazine subscriptions (Scientific American, USNI Proceedings, Family Handyman) deliver a lot of news & information along with their editorial opinions. Midweek gives us the cover story and one or two more, true, but it's mostly become a column-of-the-week fishwrapper.

When I pull out the Midweek's advertising inserts, including the TV schedule and car ads, they're almost as many pages as the Midweek. Subtract the Midweek's end-of-the-issue ads and the "real" pages are a fraction of the total newsprint.

The cost/benefit analysis is pretty thin. If it's still fun, sure, but every minute I waste on the Midweek is a minute taken away from reading this site or from surfing fixing something else I really should be getting around to...

[Kimo]

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I'm an anything-on-newsprint reader, too - and I could never understand why people gripe (loudly!) about how there's nothing in MidWeek except ads. Very far from true . . .

[lavagal]

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Granted MidWeek has Hamada, Jerry Coffee, Susan Page, Ann Coulter and
Michele Malkin all leaning to the far right of the wall, but they do have Bob Jones, Dan Boylan, Dan Rather to try and balance things out.

I know some people get annoyed at the free paper in their mailbox, I enjoy it, have friends who work for the paper, Tom Moffatt's column is always interesting, I do miss Eddie Sherman's column, he is now with Generations Hawaii.

Aj

As a free-lance writer, I've tried to get assignments at Midweek because I hear they pay pretty well. Now I get free-lance assignments from competitors, which is probably one of the many reasons they never responded to me. I always read it, but I read all the newsprint I can get on any given day.

It's a good thing to read opinions of those who oppose you. We all sharpen each other's swords, it helps you debate the issues. Know your opponent's arguments. If anything, read the conservatives or the liberals and laugh at them. How great is our country that allows the coexistence of many different and competing ideas? Think of those who exist in a place where all of the media is controlled by the government!

[Kalihiboy]

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Granted MidWeek has Hamada, Jerry Coffee, Susan Page, Ann Coulter and
Michele Malkin all leaning to the far right of the wall, but they do have Bob Jones, Dan Boylan, Dan Rather to try and balance things out.

I know some people get annoyed at the free paper in their mailbox, I enjoy it, have friends who work for the paper, Tom Moffatt's column is always interesting, I do miss Eddie Sherman's column, he is now with Generations Hawaii.

Aj