Tampa Bay Times posts third largest circulation increase of any Top 25 newspaper

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The Tampa Bay Times added more than 13,000 home delivery subscribers daily and more than 11,500 Sunday subscribers in the past six months ending in September, compared to the same time period last year.

“Clearly, the market is responding very positively to our product and new name – Tampa Bay Times,” said Times VP and Tampa Publisher Joe DeLuca. “We continue to add hundreds of new subscribers every week who are benefiting from our high quality of content, and our advertisers are seeing great results as well,” DeLuca added.

With a total Sunday circulation of 379,375, the Times remains the only Florida newspaper ranked among the country’s top 25 newspapers. The Times is the 12th largest Sunday circulation in the country among a comparison of print editions only.

Perhaps most impressively, of the country’s top 25 newspapers, the Times‘ posted the third largest increase (30.4%) in circulation, behind only the Newark Star-Ledger and the New York Times.

Peter Schorsch is the President of Extensive Enterprises and is the publisher of some of Florida’s most influential new media websites, including SaintPetersBlog.com, FloridaPolitics.com, ContextFlorida.com, and Sunburn, the morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. SaintPetersBlog has for three years running been ranked by the Washington Post as the best state-based blog in Florida. In addition to his publishing efforts, Peter is a political consultant to several of the state’s largest governmental affairs and public relations firms. Peter lives in St. Petersburg with his wife, Michelle, and their daughter, Ella.