The Orlando Sentinel will be published without AP content starting in two years! By choice! Their parent company says the price change AP will adopt in 2 years is too high to pay. The Tribune Company, The Orlando Sentinel's parent company...
"...has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the (AP) news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began.Source
Under current AP policy, each newspaper buys a package of general news created by AP based on that paper's location and circulation. The package usually includes breaking news, sports, business, and other national, international, and regional news relevant to the client's market, including its state AP wire.
Under the new structure, AP member newspapers will receive all breaking news worldwide (including items from other state wires), as well as breaking sports, business, and entertainment stories. In addition, a package of premium content — made up of five types of non-breaking stories including sports, entertainment, business, lifestyle and analysis — will be available at an additional cost.
Tribune, which owns nine daily papers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, joins a growing list of newspapers that have sought to end AP contracts, or given notice of that, following plans to introduce a new controversial rate structure in 2009. The notice was given earlier this week.
In recent months, other non-Tribune papers have also given the required two-year's notice to drop AP. Those include" papers in Minneapolis, Bakersfield California, Idaho Falls, and Yakima and Wenatchee of Washington state.