St. Petersburg Times VS. Tampa Tribune: West Pasco County, Florida Newspapers Compared

When I first moved to Florida, it was to Tampa Bay. So what newspaper did I purchase? Of course it was the Tampa Tribune. This was just fine, and covered all the local news, as well as national, and a little International news.

After about six months we moved north to the next county, Pasco County. We continued with the Tampa Tribune, for a couple of years. At this point I was unhappy with this newspaper, due to the fact, that they mainly covered East Pasco news and we live in West Pasco.

After a telephone call from the St. Pete's Times, as it is called locally, with a special offer. 13 weeks of home delivery, 7 days a week for just $13. Now I am talking about 16 years ago, I jumped at it.

Both these papers are very similar in content. They really go hand in hand, with the individual papers, making up the whole paper.

The St. Pete's Times has several papers in one:
The Pasco Times.
St. Pete's Times.

Local & State.

Floridian.
Money.
Sports
Classified.

Latitudes.

On other days homes, real estate, travel, perspective, weekend, jobs, classified, and the television guide, on a Sunday.

The sports and the T.V. guide are the only parts of this newspaper my husband Len reads.

For about 10 years I had the St. Pete's Times delivered daily, and paid on a yearly basis. This ran on promotion around $109. The newsstand price is 35 cents for weekdays, and $1.50 for the huge Sunday paper, with all the pull-outs and coupons.

When I moved house, a few years ago, I decided to go to just Sundays. I was finding that, the whole week's newspapers would be sitting by my chair, when Sunday rolled along again. Within a month, I had a telephone call from them asking to take up the yearly subscription again. I told them that I was not reading it on a daily basis. What did they do, because I had been with them so long? They have been sending me the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday papers for the price of just the Sunday paper. It actual fact this year I have just renewed for the year for around $31 and that includes delivery.