CPI Dominates Weekly Papers
by October 25, 2004 12:00 am 72 views
The Region’s Weekly Newspapers
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Although two of its top three weekly newspapers lost circulation this year, Community Publishers Inc. of Bentonville still corners the Northwest Arkansas market when it comes to weeklies.
CPI owns eight of Northwest Arkansas’ 12 weekly newspapers. The Weekly Vista of Bella Vista is the company’s largest weekly in the area with a circulation of 4,562, down 1.3 percent from 4,624 in 2003. The Rogers Hometown News also lost circulation, but CPI’s other six area weeklies were all up in 2004 over the previous year. (See chart.)
CPI is owned primarily by the Walton family of Bentonville.
Stephens Media Group of Little Rock, owns four area weeklies: the Lincoln Leader, Prairie Grove Enterprise, The Farmington Post and La Presna Del Noroeste de Arkansas (“The Press of Northwest Arkansas”), a Spanish-language newspaper in Springdale that Stephens bought last year. La Prensa is distributed for free locally but does have 860 paid subscribers.
Stephens also owns three large daily newspapers in Arkansas — The Morning News of Springdale, Southwest Times Record of Fort Smith and Pine Bluff Commercial — in addition to six weekly papers in McDonald County, Mo.