WORLD PRESS TRENDS - World Association of Newspapers

SPAIN
NUMBER OF TITLES AND CIRCULATION
Change (%)
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 98/2002 2001/02
Number of titles
Total dailies 130 135 136 136 134 3.08 -1.47
National dailies 5 5 5 6 6 20.00 0.00
Regional dailies 125 130 131 130 128 2.40 -1.54
Non-dailies 10 10 - - - - -
Free papers 180 180 - - - - -
Circulation (000)
Total dailies 4,300 4,300 4,300 4,300 4,300 * 0.00 0.00
National dailies 1,550 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 * -3.23 0.00
Regional dailies 2,750 2,800 2,800 2,800 - - -
Non-dailies 4,970 5,827 - - - - -
Total annual sales (millions of copies)
Dailies 1,337 1,337 1,593 1,556 1,556 16.38 0.00
Non-dailies 258 303 - - - - -
Free papers - 150 - - - - -
Circulation figures, and all figures for non-dailies and free papers, are estimated
* Estimates (The figures given for national daily newspapers are just for general
information national newspapers. Spain has 4 sport and 3 economic newspapers
with national distribution. The 4 sport dailies’ circulation reached 771,417 copies
in 2001 and the 3 economic dailies’ circulation was 91,078 copies in 2001)
Titles
137
136
135
134
133
132
131
130
129
128
127
Number of daily titles and circulation
Titles
Circulation
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
5,000
4,500
4,000
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
Circulation (000s)
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Change (%)
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 98/2002 2001/02
Advertising revenues (Euro million)
Dailies^ 1,327 1,530 1,692 1,594 1,531 15.38 -3.93
Dailies § 1,455 1,640 1,753 1,594 1,531 5.23 -3.93
Sundays 103 109 117 111 107 3.31 -4.04
Newspapers online - - - 111 - - -
Sales revenues (Euro million)
Dailies 974 1,028 1,232 1,202 1,200 23.25 -0.17
Dailies § 1,044 1,101 1,276 1,202 1,200 15.00 -0.17
Non-dailies^ 361 445 - - - - -
Volume of advertising sold (pages and page equivalents)
Total 601,125 693,101 753,477 787,602 808,702 34.53 2.68
In colour - - - 215,000 - -
Source: Infoadex
§ at constant 2001 prices ^ 1999 figure is estimated
Advertising revenues include classifieds and production costs; they are at ratecard prices,
so do not take discounts into account.
1,800
1,700
1,600
1,500
1,400
1,300
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1,000
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Dailies: advertising and sales revenues at current and constant 2001
prices
(Euro million)
Advertising revenues
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Current
Constant
Current
Sales revenues
Constant
Type of newspaper sales (%)
Single Home Postal
copy deliveries deliveries
1998 92 4 4
1999 92 4 4
2000 92 4 4
2001 92 4 4
2002 92 4 4
Type of newspaper sales in 2002 (%)
Home
deliveries
4%
Postal
deliveries
4%
Single copy
92%
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