Top 20 Sunday Newspapers

By: Editorial Staff ABC FAS-FAX for top 20 Sunday Newspapers for six months ended March 31, 2000.

average Sunday circulation//gain/loss period last year

1.The New York Times1,691,287+3,328 (+0.2%)
2.Los Angeles Times1,388,727+2,939 (+0.2%)
3.The Washington Post1,087,259-8,261 (-0.8%)
4.Chicago Tribune1,026,407-2,835 (-0.3%)
5.Sunday News, New York820,230-15,199 (-1.8%)
6.The Philadelphia Inquirer804,752+2,260 (+0.3%)
7.The Dallas Morning News783,944+8,451 (+1.1%)
8.Houston Chronicle747,803+11,591 (+1.6%)
9.The Boston Globe722,729-7,691 (-1.1%)
10.Star Tribune679,681+5,615 (+0.8%)
Minneapolis/St. Paul
11.Atlanta Journal and Constitution679,198-16,567 (-2.4%)
12.Newsday662,109+2,005 (+0.3%)
13.The Arizona Republic, Phoenix608,886-5,536 (-0.9%)
14.The Star-Ledger, Newark605,433+125 (0%)
15.San Francisco Examiner &570,753-21,739 (-3.7%)
Chronicle
16.The Denver Post558,560+35,255 (+6.7%)
17.Denver Rocky Mountain News552,085+90,981 (+19.7%)
18.Seattle Times/500,916+490 (+0.1%)
Post-Intelligencer
19.St. Louis Post-Dispatch500,124-17,350 (-3.4%)
20.The Sun, Baltimore475,075+690 (+0.1%)

Publisher's statements not filed by ABC press time: The Detroit News & Free Press, in seventh place last year; and The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, in 18th place last year.

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