Obermain-Tagblatt

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Obermain-Tagblatt
Obermain-Tagblatt (2012-10-30) .svg
description German daily newspaper
publishing company MPO Medien GmbH
First edition 1857
Sold edition 9919 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Roger Martin
Web link www.obermain.de

The Obermain-Tagblatt (OT) is a daily newspaper in the Lichtenfels district (Upper Franconia administrative region, Free State of Bavaria). The company's head office is in Lichtenfels, Germany . The Obermain-Tagblatt has an editorial office in Lichtenfels (Bahnhofstrasse, until 2013 Seubelsdorf) and in Altenkunstadt . Until 2014 there was also an editorial office / office in Bad Staffelstein . The sold circulation is 9,919 copies, a decrease of 28.5 percent since 1998.

history

The Obermain-Tagblatt was launched in 1857. On April 1st, the young lithographer Johann Schier from Lichtenfels published the first issue of the Lichtenfelser Wochenblatt . It was the official local newspaper of the royal judicial districts Scheßlitz, Hollfeld, Seßlach, Burgebrach and Weismain. At that time, Schier had a triple function: he was the responsible editor, publisher and mayor of the city.

On July 1, 1862, the district offices of Lichtenfels and Staffelstein were established. This prompted the founder to relocate his business premises to Hirtenstrasse (downtown Lichtenfels). The administration and advertising management of the Obermain-Tagblatt can still be found in Hirtenstrasse .

Schiers local newspaper became the official organ of the two district offices. From January 1, 1865, the newspaper appeared under the new title Lichtenfelser Tagblatt . Later son Georg took over the management of the publication. Under him the changeover to the current format took place. In 1896, Karl Gottlob Meister took over the publishing house and printing company.

The territorial reform of the 1970s (among other things, the Staffelstein district was dissolved) caused the Lichtenfelser Tagblatt and the Staffelsteiner Tagblatt to merge into the Obermain-Tagblatt .

From 1995 on, Irmgard Wilkening was managing director of the publishing house and printing company. Their activity ended on March 31, 2012.

The Obermain-Tagblatt today

According to its own information (2010), the newspaper reaches around 40,000 readers with a circulation of 9,919 copies per day of publication. The publisher is Irmgard Wilkening. The editor-in-chief is Roger Martin.

The so-called shell part , the supraregional pages (e.g. federal and state politics, culture), the Obermain-Tagblatt obtained from the Ring Nordbayerischer Tageszeitungen (RNT) until October 1, 2012. The editorial team of the RNT is in Bayreuth . The sister newspaper of the OT is the newspaper Nordbayerischer Kurier published in Bayreuth . The contract between RNT and Obermain-Tagblatt was originally supposed to end on December 31, 2013. Then the Obermain-Tagblatt should get its national pages from the Main-Post in Würzburg. In the end, this plan was implemented more quickly. On October 1st 2012 the Obermain-Tagblatt Lichtenfels moved. Since then, the offices and the main editorial office can be found at Bahnhofstrasse 14, in the heart of the district town. On Friday, September 28th, the last issue of OT was printed in the Reundorfer Straße press. Since then, the newspaper has been produced in Bayreuth. The OT prepress was also closed. Since then, the work has been carried out from Würzburg. The move was accompanied by a layout change. Since then, the Obermain-Tagblatt has been purchasing the coat from the parent company Main-Post in Würzburg .

In addition to the daily newspaper, the Obermain-Tagblatt also includes the Obermain-Service advertising paper (36,250 copies per week on Thursday, 2010 according to its own information) and the Bad-Kurier , which is distributed as an advertising-financed service booklet around the spa town of Bad Staffelstein . The Bad-Kurier appears every two weeks and has a circulation of 10,800 copies. The advertisement booklet is also the official gazette of the city of Bad Staffelstein .

On January 17, 2012, the staff of the Obermain-Tagblatt was informed at an extraordinary works meeting that the company would be taken over by the Main-Post Würzburg media group . If the cartel office agrees, the sale will take place on April 1, 2012 (the first edition of the Lichtenfelser Wochenblatt, the forerunner of the Obermain-Tagblatt, was published on April 1). This ends the 155-year history of the family company, even though the newspaper as such should continue to exist according to the unanimous statement of both sides, OT publisher Irmgard Wilkening and Main Post managing director David Brandstätter. The Main-Post media group is part of the Pressedruck media group in Augsburg . Among other things, it produces Bavaria's largest subscription newspaper, the Augsburger Allgemeine . In the Würzburg media house, the newspapers Schweinfurter Tagblatt, Bote vom Haßgau, Volksblatt and Volkszeitung appear in addition to the Main-Post. According to its own press release, Main-Post reaches around 350,000 readers with an average circulation of 128,000 copies in its area of ​​circulation. Consumer magazines, internet portals, postal companies and service companies for publishers complete the range of services offered by the Main-Post media group.

Peter Tischler and Bernd Riedel (previously Patrick Lux) have been managing directors of the Obermain-Tagblatt since April 1, 2012. Tischler is also responsible for the digital media division at Main-Post GmbH & Co. KG. He has been doing both jobs since then.

Edition

The Obermain Tagblatt , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.8% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 2.6%. It is currently 9919 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 95.3 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  2. ↑ a b http://www.obermain.de/verlag/obermain_tagblatt/unsere_geschichte_59.html ( Memento from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  4. ↑ Source: media data
  5. ^ Fränkischer Tag: "Obermain-Tagblatt announces the RNT" , January 18, 2012
  6. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  8. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )