With the new radar, they could actually detect wind circulations within storms that could lead to tornado formation.
But the taxmen have also sealed some newsprint warehouses, threatening to limit circulations.
And, of course, magazines sell advertising space on the basis of their circulations.
This leaves the display ad revenue, but this too suffers as circulations fall.
But average weekday circulation slipped 3.2% year-on-year during the six months ended Sept. 30, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The six-monthly update from the Audit Bureau of Circulations does not include 'national'-designated titles, such as the Scotsman and the Daily Record.
The main reason he wants to be shot of them is that their circulations are in long-term decline because of the Internet.
While Web news sites may be sapping big-city dailies' circulations, small-time papers are thriving by covering school board meetings, town festivals and school lunch menus.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations, which produces the figures, was asked by the two papers to treat them as "regional" titles rather than national ones.
When their eyesight fails, newspaper circulations are likely to collapse.
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His comments come with the U.S. newspaper industry in a state of crisis amid plunging advertising revenues and falling circulations with several historic titles already going out of business.
Newspaper circulations have been sliding for decades, starting well before digital media started siphoning off ad dollars and forcing widespread newsroom cutbacks that, inevitably, resulted in a poorer editorial product.
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In the two-year period beginning July 2006 (shortly after Conrad and Port began their internship at the Vogue offshoot) the magazine's circulation increased 4.6%, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The classifieds business has been eviscerated by the online equivalents, display advertising is declining and so are circulations and circulation revenues: those are the three major revenue sources for a newspaper.
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In 1999, USA Today edged past the Wall Street Journal in circulation, with 1.75 million daily copies, to take the title of the nation's biggest newspaper, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The ongoing decline in magazine single-copy sales accelerated in the second half of 2011, with the losses falling just short of double-digits, according to figures issued today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations just released circulation figures for the six months ending March 31, 2011, and the Journal retained its distinction as the largest weekday paper despite a switch in methodology.
The 1.3 million daily copies distributed at hotels in the six months ending Sept. 28 accounted for more than half of USA Today's average weekday circulation of 2.3 million, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
The New York Times (-5.5%), Los Angeles Times (-8.7%), Washington Post (-6.4%) New York Daily News (-5.5%), Chicago Tribune (-5.2%) and Houston Chronicle (-10.5%) were among the papers that saw more than 5 percent of their circulations vanish.
The group, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Record and Sunday Mail, as well as 160 local and regional newspapers, has struggled to cope with falling circulations and the transfer of classified advertising to the internet.
Game Informer is really the last bastion of video game print journalism, and according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations saw an unprecedented increase of a THIRD in subscriptions in 2010, despite the countless, free gaming sites and blogs currently available to anyone with an internet connection.
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