The Times (South Africa)

The Times
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Times Media Group
Headquarters Johannesburg, South Africa
Sister newspapers The Sunday Times
Website www.timeslive.co.za

The Times is a popular South African daily newspaper and an offshoot of The Sunday Times, to whose subscribers it is delivered gratis; non-subscribers pay R2.50 per edition. It is owned by Times Media Group.

Overview

The Times of South Africa is a daily paper which is delivered free to 137,054 (according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations statistics) Sunday Times subscribers five days a week. It is tabloid in size and is South Africa's first totally interactive newspaper which publishes in tandem with the website www.thetimes.co.za. The Times has an interactive newsroom where reporters work alongside multimedia producers and photographers to produce content for the newspaper, the website and mobile phones. The Times is also available for purchase at a cover price of R4.00 in limited quantities. The editor of The Times is Ray Hartley, the first South Africa newspaper editor with a blog.[1]

The online version is called Times LIVE. It contains breaking news, sport, entertainment and opinion pieces as well as video, audio and photo stories and blogs.

Supplements

Distribution areas

Distribution[2]
2008 2013
Eastern Cape Y Y
Free State Y Y
Gauteng Y Y
Kwa-Zulu Natal Y Y
Limpopo Y Y
Mpumalanga Y Y
North West Y Y
Northern Cape Y
Western Cape Y Y

Distribution figures

Circulation[3]
Net Sales
Jan - Mar 2015 140 647[4]
Jan - Mar 2014 142 603[4]
Oct - Dec 2012 146 956
Jul - Sep 2012 140 078
Apr - Jun 2012 142 383
Jan - Mar 2012 142 111

Readership figures

Estimated Readership[5][6]
AIR
January – 12 December 2012 287 000
July 2011 – June 2012 342 000

Location

The newspaper’s physical address is 4 Biermann Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Wild Frontier". Archived from the original on 4 May 2011. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Times Website". Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Audit Bureau of Circulations (S.A)
  4. 1 2 http://www.marklives.com/2015/05/abc-analysis-q1-2015-the-biggest-circulating-newspapers-in-south-africa/?category=media
  5. ↑ SAARF AMPS (Previous Presentations)
  6. ↑ SAARF AMPS (Industry Presentations)

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