MASS MEDIA

Competition on the market of weekly newspapers.Popular newspapers


Bakhytdzhamal Bektyrganova
President of ASIP
ALMATY, Dec 24
(Specially for the GLOBE)

The following are five the most popular newspapers according to results of four quarters:


Comparative ratings of the quinary of the most popular newspapers of the year

   

         I quarter   

  II quarter  

  III quarter  

  IV quarter    

Average rating   

Karavan       

23.75        

44.39      

   51.55    

     48.38     

    42.02   

Bien          

  8.01        

17.73      

   29.67       

  33.32        

22.18   

Va-Bank       

12.79        

16.00     

    28.66        

21.91     

    19.84   

Argumenty i Fakty  

  3.53    

    20.43     

    19.42   

      15.12   

      14.63   

Ya Pokupatel i    

Sobstvennik       

5.33       

  9.63       

  7.12       

  9.55        

7.91   



Summand of the popularity of the said of weeklies:


Specific gravity of readers of newspapers in the structure
of an aggregated readers� audience

(% of all interviewed readers)

 

      

     I quarter    

II quarter  

  III quarter   

IV quarter    

Average-annual audience

Karavan     

   42.6       

  77.7      

   80.5    

     70.9     

    67.9   

Bien           

13.9       

  30.6        

39.4     

    45.9      

   32.5   

Va-Bank       

19.6      

   25.7       

  38.3        

31.3      

   28.7   

Argumenty i Fakty  

  8.0      

  36.6     

    35.0    

     27.6    

     26.8   

Ya Pokupatel i

Sobstvennik       

9.4        

18.5        

15.3        

17.0        

15.1   



The audience of weekly newspapers mostly consists of Karavan�s readers. Of its number readers of Bien newspaper
account for one third. Little less than one third � readers of Va-Bank. Every fourth weeklies� reader prefers Argumenty i
Fakty, and every seventh � Ya Pokupatel i Sobstvennik.


Comparative trust indicators of interviewed citizens regarding newspapers-leaders

 

      

     I quarter

    II quarter

    III quarter   

IV quarter    

Average rating   

Karavan       

27.7     

    47.5     

    32.7    

     18.9   

      29.2   

Bien          

  4.4       

  15.5        

19.4       

  13.2       

  13.1   

Va-Bank     

   6.1      

   10.6      

   18.2    

     5.7       

  10.2   

Argumenty i Fakty   

4.9    

    30.2      

   28.5       

  13.2     

    19.2   

Ya Pokupatel i

Sobstvennik       

7.5        

10.6       

  9.7     

    8.8    

     9.2   



According to results of the year it is clearly obvious that the bulk of interviewed citizens prefer not to gain information
from the above weeklies. Lack of trust to the latter is expressed even stronger than that to weekly newspapers.


Comparative trust indicators
(% of own audiences of newspapers)

           

I quarter   

  II quarter   

III quarter 

   IV quarter

    Average rating  

Karavan       

65.1        

61.2       

  40.7      

   26.6   

      48.4   

Bien          

  31.5      

   50.6        

49.2    

     28.7    

     40.0   

Va-Bank       

31.2       

  41.2        

47.4   

      18.2    

     34.5   

Argumenty i Fakty   

60.8     

   82.5        

81.4      

   47.6        

68.1   

Ya Pokupatel i

Sobstvennik       

80.0     

    57.1       

  63.4        

51.7       

  63.1   


Argumenty i Fakty is a leader by the trust indicator among its audience. Trust rating of the newspaper was continuously
scaling back, and by the end of this year it was less almost by 2.5 times in comparison with the beginning of the year.


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