TU shrinks Sunday comics

That is to say, the Times Union has significantly shrunk the page size of the color section, which also means the size of the panels is smaller and the print is harder to read. This presumably saves money on newsprint, as did eliminating the TV weekly earlier this year. Downsizing staff saves money too, as does playing hardball with The Newspaper Guild, but all of this tends to give subscribers less for their money, which is not going to help stop the bleeding in circulation. 

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[Brian]

The Post-Star did something similar not long ago, eliminating a page altogether from their comics. They recently raised their newstand price from 50 cents to a dollar, thus imposing a 100 pct price rise on a product with declining quality.