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Philadelphia Inquirer to Launch Exciting New Page with Box Scores and Team Schedules
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Saw this out there:
The year is 2024, and the @PhillyInquirer has created a World Wide Web site with box scores and team schedules. pic.twitter.com/RKnhvfuNPo
— Sasha Issenberg (@sissenberg) July 11, 2024
I asked some folks over there and the background is that the Inquirer stopped putting this stuff in the paper a couple of years ago. “Agate” is the industry term. There’s an older demographic of readers who still get the print copy and whine(ed) because the paper is where they typically found the TV schedules, standings, scores, basically everything described in that email. So their best guess is that Inquirer brass created this new vertical as a response to the complaints.
Of course, this information is already free on a hundred other websites and apps. You can get all of it at ESPN, or Fox Sports, or the league or team sites. Who’s going behind the Inquirer paywall to find Jalen Hurts’ completion percentage and what time the Phillies play tonight?
That’s why people like @Sissenberg are having a laugh, because it’s redundant, if not entirely pointless. If you say to 65 year old Ken from Maple Shade, “hey we moved all of that online,” are concerns ASSUAGED? Did a print reader become a digital subscriber? Seems unlikely. Because if Ken logs on to the World Wide Web or downloads a phone app for the first time in his life, hypothetically, he’d realize that everything he’s looking for is already there, and has been for 20+ years.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com