When in doubt, count on Cablevision to ruin a newspaper the same way that they deconstructed the New York Knicks.
It's nothing new but no amount money can force people to pay for something that they can get for free somewhere else.
Not even Cablevision, who last October bought Newsday.
$4 million dollars later, a new subscription-based website has failed to draw any significant interest.
"The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest."
35 subscribers? No comment. Traffic has also gone from 2.2 million unique visits to 1.5 million since Cablevision started gutting the newsroom. That sort of leaves the newspaper with less content and less reason for readers to show up. Also, part of the problem is that Cablevision offers Newsday.com as a freebie with its Optimum Cable.
But to quote the newsroom, "The website sucks."
So do the Knicks.
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