Today's London Metro = yesterday's Daily Male and Evening subStandard
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)
Is it affiliated at all with the Boston Metro? It's given out free in T stations and is mostly garbage. Each day's issue has a compulsory sidebar about animal news on the front page. Conspiracy!
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)
(geeta i wuv animal news fluff pieces! but then i am a fluffy cweature-wuvvin' HIPPY)
― katie (katie), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)
from an
article written when metro launched in philadelphia:
Sweden’s Modern Times Group may be unknown on these shores, but it’s already a major player overseas.
MTG began in 1994 as a subsidiary of the Swedish conglomerate Kinnevik, who created TV3, Sweden’s first satellite television network. With the success of the 1987 TV3 launch and Kinnevik’s Astra satellite system, they began investing more heavily in media ventures.
Modern Times Group was created as Kinnevik’s media division, and remained a part of the company until it was separated in September, 1997.
While MTG began with mostly Swedish capital, it has broadened its operation and now trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
MTG is divided into five business areas: broadcasting, radio, electronic retailing, media services, and of course publishing, which produces Metro.
In its native Sweden, Metro enjoys a circulation of over 700,000 between its Stockholm and Gothenburg operations.
What’s more, since its inception in 1995, Metro has colonized Budapest, Helsinki, Zurich, Amsterdam, Prague (where it is the top daily newspaper), and Newcastle, England.
― maura (maura), Thursday, 19 December 2002 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)
she's my favourite music journalist, heheheh
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)