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Murdoch's New York Post plans daily L.A. delivery in nod to Fox. (Media & Technology).


Local readers of the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10  have Fox executives to thank for the company's decision to roll out same-day publication of the colorful tabloid in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  this January.

The Post's announcement last week that it will begin same-day service (humour, operating system) same-day service - An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute).  -- both for home delivery and news stands sales -- was prompted in part by the desire of bicoastal bi·coas·tal  
adj.
1. Relating to both the east and west coasts of the United States, as:
a. Traveling frequently between coasts as part of a business or living arrangement:
 Fox executives not to have to wait a full day for their fix of news, sports and gossip, said the paper's general manager, Geoff Booth.

The Post sells papers in Los Angeles, but they don't appear until the day after the morning paper hits the streets in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
.

Booth said the Post has not determined how many copies of the paper it will print in Los Angeles. The Post has a similar program in Florida, where, as in California, there is a large population of ex-New Yorkers. The Post sells roughly 10,000 copies a day to vacationers and former New York residents in that state.

Like Fox, the newspaper is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It has average daily circulation of 562,000.

"There are a lot of executives going between the two cities and they want to read the Post the day it comes out," said Booth.

The company is looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 a local printer and distributor and plans to roll out same-day news as early as Jan. 1, company officials said.

For expatriates there's nothing in L.A. that compares to the tabloid, Booth said.
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Title Annotation:Robert Murdoch
Author:Satzman, Darrell
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 4, 2002
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