Delivery and Page Width
The Seattle Times was an afternoon paper for 104 years until March 6, 2000. It switched to morning delivery to avoid the fate of other afternoon newspapers that had shut down. This placed the Times in direct competition with its JOA partner, the morning Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
For decades, the broadsheet page width of the Times was 131⁄2 inches (34 cm), printed from a 54-inch web, the four-page width of a roll of newsprint. Following changing industry standards, the width of the page was reduced in 2005 by 1 inch (2.5 cm), to 121⁄2 inches (32 cm), now a 50-inch web standard. In February 2009, the web size was further reduced to 46 inches, which narrowed the page by another inch to 111⁄2 inches (29 cm) in width.
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