Do you need more sports info badly enough to pay for it?

The Globe thinks so, with the launch of OT, which the paper insists doesn't stand for "Overtime" or "Occupational Therapy" but for "Our Town/Our Teams" (which you'd think would mean it would be called OT/OT, but they must've dropped the last OT for savings, or maybe because ot-ot sounds like the noise you'd make if you had part of a sub roll stuck in your throat).

It's interesting the Globe is charging for this given that its two fashion mags (Lola and fB) are distributed for free. Are men just bigger spenders? Or are companies that would advertise in a sports mag smaller spenders than those that would advertise in fB?

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Submitted by adamg on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:18am.

It is an interesting gamble.

Even though I'm not a huge sports fanatic, I would consider shelling out $.50 cents just to read Charlie Pierce. I don't get my fix from his tiny pieces in the Globe's Sunday magazine. Will enough other people think the same? Hard to say.

Huuvola | Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:35am

Vote on paying 50 cents a week

Bruce Allen has a poll and background info on the new magazine.

adamg | Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:18am

Not A Chance Of Success, Unless...

... some of the public might be willing to pay four bits for something along the lines of a Racing Form for local sports bettors. If the new publication is top-heavy with statistics, it might find favor with that segment of the market. Also, folks who participate in fantasy leagues might enjoy it.

If it is "just" journalism, I wouldn't give it more than eight weeks before it dies.

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Suldog | Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:39am

No ads in sports section now

I never read the sports section of the Globe but I do check how much advertising is in it because I think the paper spends far too many resources covering sports.

If you check for a couple of weeks, you'll find that there is very little advertising, aside from Globe house ads, in the sports section.

I'm all for a separate publication as long as it pays it's own way --entirely.

I prefer resources spent on covering local, local, local news. News that really makes a difference in peoples lives. Sports and celebrities are frosting on the dessert cake, we need some main courses from the Globe.

Thank goodness for the local information we get from Universal Hub.

bostonzest | Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:34am

I'd buy it occasionally

I would buy this each week while the Sox are in the playoffs ... but then I probably wouldn't buy it again until the week before Opening Day. After that I'd buy it only sporadically and intermittenly until the following September. The publication won't survive if I'm a typical reader.

Ron Newman | Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:22am