20130429-NEWS--25-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 4/26/2013 2:43 PM Page 1 JASON MILLER Home-delivery tubes for The Plain Dealer and the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram are shown along a street in Avon, which is one of the areas in which the Chronicle-Telegram hopes to take advantage of the PD’s reduced home delivery. CAN SUBURBAN DAILIES MOVE IN ON PD’S TURF? Smaller NE Ohio papers plan to take advantage of cut in home delivery by their big rival By JAY MILLER
[email protected] he handful of Northeast Ohio BILL BISHOP newspapers that plan to continue Bill Hudnutt, general manager of the Elyria publishing seven days a week see a Chronicle-Telegram, left, is shown with Paul B. modest opportunity ahead when Martin, president and CEO of Lorain County TThe Plain Dealer cuts back home delivery to Printing and Publishing Co. three days a week later this summer. However, none is expected to make a NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION full-blown assault on the Cleveland market, as has happened in New Orleans after that Daily Sunday city’s Times-Picayune switched to publish- Akron Beacon Journal x-82,054 116,546 ing only three days a week. Elyria Chronicle-Telegram 24,274 24,014 Although it is too early for them to say (Lake County) News-Herald 37,218 34,570 definitely what their plans will be — partic- (Lorain) Morning Journal 22,487 21,046 ularly because The Plain Dealer hasn’t said Medina Gazette 11,853 — which days, other than Sunday, it will offer ■ x-The Beacon Journal daily circulation is home delivery — publishers of the region’s Monday through Friday only.