WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023 | Volume 36 No. 41
KAMLOOPSTHISWEEK.COM
THIS AUXILIARY AIDS IN RESIDENTIAL CARE
Auxiliary to Overlander Residential Care is among non-profits we help
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GASLIGHT BEGINS STAGE SEASON
Western Canada Theatre’s 2023-2024 series gets underway this week
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COUNCILLORS ON FIRST YEAR ON JOB
KTW speaks to the new council members about the experience
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Stopping the presses on a 35-year run It is with great sorrow that we announce that you are holding in your hands the penultimate edition of Kamloops This Week. After 35 years of publishing in the city, next week’s edition of KTW, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, will be the final newspaper to be delivered to homes and drop boxes. Due to myriad challenges, including market conditions and unrelenting rising costs, KTW will close, leaving Kamloops without a newspaper for the first time since the 1800s. “We face a bunch of issues that are outside of our control,” said Robert Doull, president of Aberdeen Publishing, the company that owns Kamloops This Week.
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“Our paper costs have increased. Our printer went out of business with 10 days’ notice and the sole available replacement is only able to give us a smaller page size at a higher price.” In addition, website views have fallen by half as a result of Meta and Google blocking
news links due to the Online News Act, while lease rates for office space have doubled. “To operate our business, we need a stable revenue base and controllable costs so that we can commit to providing forward advertising contracts with certainty,” Doull said. “The cost half of our equation no longer makes sense and we don’t see any way to solve it. The newspaper has simply come to the end of its business life. We had hoped that we might be able to find a way for the paper to continue as a non-profit enterprise. However, in the end, it proved to be too difficult and too lengthy a process for us to be able to make the transition and we simply ran out of time.”
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