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Free Press confirms new Sunday edition

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Free Press will introduce a new Sunday tabloid edition starting next month to replace the broadsheet version it has produced for the last 24 years.

The new product, to be called "On7," will carry breaking news, sports and entertainment stories and will only be available in vending boxes for $1 or on newsstands and retail outlets for $1.25. It will not be delivered to subscribers’ homes.

FP Newspapers Income Fund, which owns the Free Press, announced the change this afternoon.

But fear not, fans of regular Sunday sections, such as Homes, Books or Perspective. They will be included -- along with Sunday’s puzzles, comics and other features -- in an expanded Saturday paper called the "Free Press Weekend Edition," which will be delivered to subscribers’ doors.

Bob Cox, publisher of the Free Press, said the move is being done to combat falling revenues during the economic downturn of the past year.

"The Free Press will continue to search for ways to improve efficiencies while at the same time preserving the quality of Winnipeg’s best-read daily newspaper," he said.

 

To comment on these moves, please reply to  fpcirc@freepress.mb.ca
 

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