TO: Circulation Directors

FROM: Darla Thompson, Director of Member Services

DATE: June 3, 2005

SUBJECT: Subscription Billing Survey

How do you bill your customers for home delivery? Do your subscribers have the option of paying weekly or monthly?

This survey is being conducted by member request, and the results will be sent to everyone who participates.

Please check all boxes that apply to your newspaper’s home delivery subscription payment plans:

 weekly, or in multiple-week segments

 monthly, or in multiple-month segments

 annually

 other: ______

Comments:

______signed

______newspaper circulation

RETURN BY FAX TO: 512-476-0515

TO: Circulation Managers & Publishers

FROM: Darla Thompson, Director of Member Services

DATE: June 29, 2005

SUBJECT: SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SURVEY

Thank you for responding to TDNA’s poll of subscription billing methods. Enclosed is a tally of the billing options offered by 23 Texas daily newspapers.

This survey was conducted in response to member request. The results are being mailed to the circulation managers who responded, as well as to their publishers, and will be available to anyone interested in this data. JUNE 2005 SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SURVEY 23 Papers Responding A service of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association

NEWSPAPERS BILLINGBILLING OPTIONS NEWSPAPERS BY BILLINGBILLING OPTIONS ALPHABETICALLY week month annual CIRCULATION SIZE week month annual

Austin American-Statesman...... 4 4 OVER 100,000: Brownsville Herald...... 4 4 Austin American-Statesman...... 4 4 Dallas Morning News...... 4 4 Dallas Morning News...... 4 4 Denton Record-Chronicle...... 4 Fort Worth Star-Telegram...... 4 4 Fort Worth Star-Telegram...... 4 4 Houston Chronicle...... 4 4 Galveston County Daily News...... 4 San Antonio Express-News……… 4 4 Henderson Daily News...... 4 5 PAPERS OVER 100,000: 2 3 5 Houston Chronicle...... 4 4 40.0% 60.0% 100.0% Huntsville Item...... 4 4 20,000-35,000: Kerrville Daily Times...... 4 Galveston County Daily News...... 4 Laredo Morning Times...... 4 Laredo Morning Times...... 4 Longview News-Journal...... 4 4 Longview News-Journal...... 4 4 Lufkin Daily News...... 4 Odessa American...... 4 Mexia Daily News...... 4 4 San Angelo Standard-Times...... 4 New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung...... 4 4 Sherman Herald-Democrat...... 4 Odessa American...... 4 Temple Daily Telegram...... 4 4 Palestine Herald-Press...... 4 7 PAPERS 20-35,000: 0 7 2 Plainview Daily Herald...... 4 4 0.0% 100.0% 28.6% San Angelo Standard-Times...... 4 UNDER 20,000: San Antonio Express-News……… 4 4 Brownsville Herald...... 4 4 Sherman Herald-Democrat...... 4 Denton Record-Chronicle...... 4 Temple Daily Telegram...... 4 4 Henderson Daily News...... 4 Weatherford Democrat...... 4 4 Huntsville Item...... 4 4 23 PAPERS TOTAL: 2 21 13 Kerrville Daily Times...... 4 8.7% 91.3% 56.5% Lufkin Daily News...... 4 Mexia Daily News...... 4 4 NOTES: New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung...... 4 4 Austin: 4-5-8-13-26-52 wks Palestine Herald-Press...... 4 Dallas: 75% office pay/25% carrier collect, billed in monthly increments Plainview Daily Herald...... 4 4 Huntsville: E-Z-PAY option Weatherford Democrat...... 4 4 Plainview: 100% paid-in-advance (send solicitations, not bills) San Antonio: 4-7-11-52 weeks, other multiple week options for 11 PAPERS UNDER 20,000: 0 11 6 1st time sign-ups 0.0% 100.0% 54.5% 2005 SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SURVEY

|| 9/30/04 || NEWSPAPER || DAILY SUNDAY 7-day-avg || || CIRC CIRC PS Circ || WK MO AN OTHER || || Abilene Reporter-News...... || 33,583 || Alice Echo-News...... || 4,160 || Amarillo Globe-News...... || 54,108 || Austin American-Statesman...... || 188,151 || 1 1 1 è Baytown Sun...... || 9,209 || Beaumont Enterprise...... || 56,749 || Big Spring……………...... || 4,704 || Clute-Brazosport Facts...... || 16,845 || Brenham Banner-Press...... || 5,804 || Brownsville Herald...... || 17,743 || 1 1 Brownwood Bulletin...... || 5,323 || Bryan-College Station Eagle...... || 26,330 || Cleburne Times Review...... || 5,827 || Conroe Courier...... || 11,190 || Corpus Christi Caller-Times...... || 63,141 || Corsicana Daily Sun...... || 6,543 || (Dallas) Daily Comrcl Record...... || 349 || Dallas Morning News...... || 455,000 635,000 538,841 || 1 1 Del Rio News-Herald...... || 4,808 || Denton Record-Chronicle...... || 18,874 || 1 El Paso Times...... || 81,149 || Fort Worth Star-Telegram...... || 235,622 331,059 251,602 || 1 1 Gainesville Daily Register...... || 5,865 || Galveston County Daily News...... || 30,500 24,326 || 1 Greenville Herald-Banner...... || 8,267 || Harlingen Valley Morning Star...... || 25,531 || Henderson Daily News...... || 5,834 || 1 Houston Chronicle...... || 530,000 720,000 615,783 || 1 1 (Houston) Daily Court Review...... || 1,390 || Huntsville Item...... || 5,506 || 1 1 1 è Kerrville Daily Times...... || 8,986 || 1 Killeen Daily Herald...... || 19,717 || Laredo Morning Times...... || 21,500 23,909 || 1 Longview News-Journal...... || 29,293 36,178 30,148 || 1 1 Lubbock Avalanche-Journal...... || 54,964 || Lufkin Daily News...... || 16,500 14,279 || 1 Marshall News Messenger...... || 7,011 || McAllen Monitor...... || 41,835 || McKinney Courier-Gazette...... || 6,510 || Mexia Daily News...... || 2,700 2,082 || 1 1 Midland Reporter-Telegram...... || 20,676 || Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel...... || 8,483 || New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung...... || 8,336 10,022 7,984 || 1 1 Odessa American...... || 25,028 27,000 25,306 || 1 Orange Leader...... || 5,682 || Palestine Herald-Press...... || 7,550 7,805 8,128 || 1 Paris News...... || 10,131 || Pasadena Citizen...... || 5,309 || Plainview Daily Herald...... || 7,500 5,631 || 1 1 Port Arthur News...... || 14,222 || Rosenberg Herald Coaster...... || 8,476 || San Angelo Standard-Times...... || 31,000 28,434 || 1 San Antonio Express-News...... || 256,504 || San Marcos Daily Record...... || 4,601 || Seguin Gazette-Enterprise...... || 4,593 || 2005 SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SURVEY

|| 9/30/04 || NEWSPAPER || DAILY SUNDAY 7-day-avg || || CIRC CIRC PS Circ || WK MO AN OTHER || || Sherman Herald-Democrat...... || 24,500 24,641 || 1 Snyder Daily News...... || 3,813 || Stephenville Empire-Tribune...... || 3,981 || Sulphur Springs News-Telegram...... || 5,066 || Temple Daily Telegram...... || 24,000 20,227 || 1 1 Terrell Tribune...... || 5,869 || Texarkana Gazette...... || 33,990 || Tyler Morning Telegraph...... || 42,331 || Victoria Advocate...... || 36,325 || Waco Tribune-Herald...... || 41,383 || Waxahachie Daily Light...... || 4,962 || Weatherford Democrat...... || 7,000 5,236 || 1 1 Wichita Falls Times Record News..... || 32,684 || || || || 1,448,529 1,774,564 2,981,644 || 1 21 12 2 2005 SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SURVEY

13 and 26 weeks

(75% office pay/25% carrier collect)

E-Z Pay

(100% paid-in-advance, no billing) 2005 SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SURVEY