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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 20, 2012 21:04:47 GMT 1
Just heard that as from Monday 23rd January,it will cost a monthly subscription of £3.99 to view the Telegraph online...
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Post by puccini on Jan 20, 2012 21:29:43 GMT 1
do anything to shut us up
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Post by winston on Jan 20, 2012 21:38:00 GMT 1
Less than half-price but still over priced!
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Post by tiddles on Jan 20, 2012 21:41:03 GMT 1
LOL! I suspect our membership will be growing soon because only a fool would pay for that shite!!!!
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 20, 2012 23:01:00 GMT 1
Dear ******
Thank you for registering with our new, improved and fully redesigned Greenock Telegraph website.
We value each and every one of our loyal readers and we have been delighted by the astonishing number of you who have already signed up to join us in the past year.
I hope you have enjoyed the new look and redevelopment of the site in recent months as we've gradually added more and more of our top-quality content across news and sport, while introducing other great features, such as our busy interactive comments forum and highly popular 'Talk of the Towns' nostalgia section.
We are now taking an already successful site on to a whole new level - with the introduction of breaking news updates right throughout the day, every day, along with all our premium news content, fantastic photography and comprehensive sports coverage, plus thought-provoking opinion and analysis.
With more than 150 proud years of tradition under our belt, your Tele is THE home of local news - and as we move into an exciting new era you will now be able to count on our award-winning and dedicated editorial team delivering as-it-happens coverage of everything going on in your community, both in print and online.
Quite simply, the Tele website will be offering you an unrivalled breadth, depth and pace of coverage, along with all the best news, sport and picture exclusives - including our premium coverage of Greenock Morton. Not only that, but there'll be more to come in the weeks and months ahead as we prepare to bring you local views and comment, competitions, exclusive reader offers, and games and activities too.
We will also soon be launching mobile and tablet apps - meaning you can stay up-to-date when you are on the go, wherever you are.
And we'll be delivering all this for less than ONE POUND per week. From Monday you'll be able to keep up-to-date with breaking news on our website for just £3.99 a month or, if you want to have the option of our online coverage while still enjoying your traditional Tele in print, you can subscribe for just £15 a month - delivered to your door.* I'm sure you'll agree this offers exceptional value for money.
We look forward to welcoming you on board.
Special Offers
As an introductory offer to the new content on our site we are giving you two website subscription offers to take advantage of.
£2.99 for the first three months**
That's equivalent to getting one month's subscription free over the course of the year.
Subscribe for £3.99 a month and get your Tele FREE every day for one month.***
Subscribe now to our online edition and we'll send you a voucher giving you the Greenock Telegraph newspaper edition FREE for one month.
Please visit our subscription page if you want to take advantage of this great deal.
Local Delivery
To have a copy of the Greenock Telegraph delivered direct to your door every day Monday to Saturday, please contact our circulation department on 01475 558961 / 558914 or e-mail circulation@greenocktelegraph.co.uk.
A small charge for delivery will be added to the normal selling price of the newspaper and you'll get FREE access to the website's exclusive and premium content. Local delivery starts at £15 a month.
The Greenock Telegraph is and always has been the home of local news in print - and it's now firmly established itself as the home of local news online too. We look forward to welcoming you on board.
* Local Delivery service provided by local newsagents and delivery agents.
** Normal subscription price of £3.99 applies after your first three payments have been processed.
*** Free newspaper offer restricted to one purchase per househol
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Post by myfindhorn on Jan 20, 2012 23:45:21 GMT 1
samfragreenock
Do I detect a wee brown envelope
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 20, 2012 23:47:15 GMT 1
its a load of rubbish on the paper and even more on the online one....so that means from monday we wont be able to view that lovely paper that we all have come to enjoy and love........ i;ll stick to inverclyde now.... i think i'll need to take something to calm me down after reading that, tiddles were,s the valium???  |
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 20, 2012 23:53:13 GMT 1
samfragreenock Do I detect a wee brown envelope Not coming my way, that's for sure This was given to me by an acquaintance, who received it as an email from Tele Dunno if there will be a restricted free version |
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 21, 2012 0:04:09 GMT 1
if there is you will get the headlines and probably that will be all........half of the time its not worth looking at
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Post by tiddles on Jan 21, 2012 13:43:51 GMT 1
I can confess that we haven't bought the Tele in years, not since they did an appalling piece about the personal life of one of my friends. He has a messy marital thing and for some odd reason, it was given front page.
My mother still buys it however.
I reckon that things in Crawfurd Street are not going well but if they this will increase their revenues, they're daft, but then we know they are. They have certainly not been happy with the way their shitty site has been taken over by informed and lively debate and I gather the Labour Party have not been too happy.
I just wonder who they think they are, why in the name of all that's holy do they think ANYONE would think of paying them £4 a month to read shite about some arsehole cycling to Mount Fuji in aid of their granda's varicose veins.
Anyway, good riddance to utter shite.
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 21, 2012 13:48:38 GMT 1
LMAO
watch the site crash and burn
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Post by winston on Jan 21, 2012 16:11:34 GMT 1
but what will we talk about?
Seriously, some thought will need to be given as to how we procure local news stories for discussion. A good wee site as it is, I wouldn't want to rely wholly on Inverclyde Now.
Do you think Jeremy will develop the current site and go fully commercial, employing real journalists or do you think an area the size of Inverclyde would warrant a reduced print run paper, something similar to The Largs & Millport?
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 21, 2012 18:17:51 GMT 1
but what will we talk about? Seriously, some thought will need to be given as to how we procure local news stories for discussion. A good wee site as it is, I wouldn't want to rely wholly on Inverclyde Now. Do you think Jeremy will develop the current site and go fully commercial, employing real journalists or do you think an area the size of Inverclyde would warrant a reduced print run paper, something similar to The Largs & Millport? Guess who owns the Largs & Millport paper - yes it's the same clowns who own the tele |
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 21, 2012 19:41:44 GMT 1
I've heard about stifling debate but this is bloody ridiculous, expecting people to pay for the pleasure of taking part in the online section only to find your views being moderated.
As Winston say's we'll have to start looking elsewhere for stories which is going to be a pain in the ass. But we'll muddle through.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 21, 2012 23:22:32 GMT 1
if we cant find any then we make our own up.....
hey if you get moderated do you get your money back?
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Post by mivi on Jan 22, 2012 3:18:12 GMT 1
I can confess that we haven't bought the Tele in years, not since they did an appalling piece about the personal life of one of my friends. He has a messy marital thing and for some odd reason, it was given front page. My mother still buys it however. I reckon that things in Crawfurd Street are not going well but if they this will increase their revenues, they're daft, but then we know they are. They have certainly not been happy with the way their shitty site has been taken over by informed and lively debate and I gather the Labour Party have not been too happy. I just wonder who they think they are, why in the name of all that's holy do they think ANYONE would think of paying them £4 a month to read shite about some arsehole cycling to Mount Fuji in aid of their granda's varicose veins. Anyway, good riddance to utter shite. I don't read the Tele and haven't for years. My family used to get it, but to be honest if you don't socialise at night in the town do you really need to know the movements of every petty criminal in the district? Or all the hatches, matches and dispatches? I'll not be paying anything to read it. Inverclyde Now here I come. I don't feel bad about that. There are loads of free online news providers. Edit] I am liking Tom Stevenson's blog in Inverclyde Now. The bit about Hector McNeil was superb.  |
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 22, 2012 19:12:55 GMT 1
i think we will make up our own stories and talk about them
the tele hasnt been good for years....as you say mivi...if your not out at night socialising do you really need to know the latest gossip of petty criminals.....if i want to read anything i just go to our local corner shop and have a glance as i wouldnt pay for the paper
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 22, 2012 23:07:10 GMT 1
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 22, 2012 23:31:17 GMT 1
that is a right joke....a paywall......there is nothing in the tele that is worth paying for on the stand or online.
the tele used to be a good paper but now its full of rubbish that you really dont want to read...
i;ll stick to reading my tele at the corner shop...well its not worth paying for lol
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Post by winston on Jan 22, 2012 23:51:21 GMT 1
You're right there Linda. They could do a lot worse than shake of their political allegiances and employ at least one real investigative journalist who would get their teeth into some of the real news stories that affect people across the area.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 23, 2012 1:00:19 GMT 1
when you give them a real story they dont seem to want to know....give them rubbish and there there as quick as a flash
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 23, 2012 2:31:17 GMT 1
Whilst on a routine patrol to the towns esplanade constable Ivor Biggun of the Greenock Constabulary saw a certain Mr C Gull defecating on the promenade. On spying the constable Gull took off, but was later apprehended by PC Bigun.
At the towns magistrates court, Gull was fined 2/6p. At that moment the most unpleasant of noises ensued from the rafters as Gulls' family decided to defecate on mass within the building.
At this point Sgt Hawk flew in to the melee and sent the gulls diving for cover as he flew from one to the other bring them down one by one.
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 12:29:25 GMT 1
I'd love to see the traffic stats for the site today, compared to say last Monday.
Goodbye advert revenue LMAO
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Post by eccosais on Jan 23, 2012 12:31:16 GMT 1
I just tried to get on to the "tilly" webpage and can't - they want money!!! well they have done their best to shut us up! and to stop the anti councillors and anti labour comments BUT it will not change our opinions of the waste of space public servants! a pretty desperate move from the tilly, not impressed.
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 23, 2012 12:34:29 GMT 1
Arf Arf Arf
Was still accesible @0930 then when I went back on around 1030 it was chargeable
Ooooooof - this will work well........................
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 12:37:27 GMT 1
Watch the local businesses pull the adverts.................coming soon lol
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 13:45:22 GMT 1
I reckon things are a bit dodgy with the parent company. There has to be a drop in profits across the board the way things are and some idiot thinks this is a way to raise revenue. I really can't think why anyone would pay these arseholes £4 per month to read a Labour Party pamphlet. It'll die a death by end of business today.
The only folk who might take them up on it are ex-pats but even they will see that they are getting bugger all for their money.
I did notice a while back that many of this company's other titles do not have comments sections despite them using the same template. Rod, you are right of course, no business these days will dream of handing money over to advertise on a site that nobody looks at. At the height of the, 'comment boom' the number of hits must have been staggering.
I suppose for now we will have to use Bro Burrows' site and hopefully he will see that our links will bring him lots of hits too. I cannot see him being daft enough to do the same as the Tele.
I won't miss the Tele at all.
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Post by harpotheton on Jan 23, 2012 13:55:38 GMT 1
Greetings and Salutations to you all !
As someone who moved away from Inverclyde over 20 years ago, I used the Tele s(h)ite to catch up on what was going on. A typical days 'news cover' went a long way to remind me of why I would never move back (I'm not trying to be insulting or patronising - apologies to you all if I appear to be). The stories were / are generally bleak and paint a picture of 'small town attitudes' verging on the parochial. The level of journalistic incompetence is obvious.
A typical report would be of the format :
A house was broken into in the early hours of Saturday in Gourock. It is understood that the thieves broke in between 01.00 a.m. and 06.00 a.m. Their haul included a 3 figure sum of cash and jewellery of great sentimental value to the property owner.
Greenock Constabulary's PC Ivor Biggun was quoted as saying,
'Somewhere between the hours of 01.00 a.m. and 06.00 a.m on Saturday morning a house was broken into in Gourock. We understand that they stole a 3 figure sum of cash and jewellery of great sentimental value to the property owner.'
Lazy journalism at best but more than likely the tele owners pay peanuts and get Monkeys.
When I visit Mater and Pater, I get the opportunity to read the hard copy version of the paper. I find it incredible that the owners have the cheek to charge 40p [sic] for 4 pages of tosh....it'd make a cat laugh !!
I certainly won't miss it - and I agree with the comments above re the loss of revenue when local firms withdraw their adverts.
Toodle Pip !!
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 13:58:40 GMT 1
I agree with everything you say Harpo!!!!
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Post by bleach on Jan 23, 2012 14:18:45 GMT 1
I did laugh there when I went to the Tele site for the first time in a couple of days and realised that they wanted me to actually pay to view it. Now, i've not bought the actual Telegraph in *years* because it is so terrible, so there is absolutely no way in hell I would ever consider paying money to access their website! The only reason I ever went on their site to begin with was to have a laugh at their dreadful, hopeless, labour-biased 'articles' being ripped to shreds by some of you guys every time. I can now happily remove the Greenock Telegraph link from my bookmarks, no need to go near the site again now  |
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