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History was recorded at the 91st Annual TCMA Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, in October 2005. The Fort Worth meeting was the last TCMA confer- ence to be held in the fall. By unanimous consent of the members attending the 2005 conference, future conferences will be held in the spring. TCMA is fol- lowing a trend established by other sectionals and the Newspaper Association of America to schedule the annual meeting in the spring. The 92nd Annual TCMA Conference is just around the corner in April 2006. Our meeting will be held at the Radisson South Padre Island Hotel in South Padre Island, Texas. This resort island is just minutes from the Harlingen or Brownsville airports. Our host, the Freedom Group Newspapers, tell us April is a delightful time to be in the Texas coastal city. Make plans now to be a part of the first TCMA spring time conference. It will be history in the making! The Zinser Law Firm 2 Texas Roundup 3 New Board Members 4 2005 Conference Photos 5 TCMA Newsletter Sponsors 6 Our Newest Members 5 Inside this issue: TCMA Lone Star Review TEXAS CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION November 2005 Historic Conference in Fort Worth New Conference Format The TCMA Board of Directors estab- lished a new conference meeting format to encourage greater participation and allow our vendors to stay for the entire conference. The TCMA sponsored golf tourna- ment has been eliminated due to a low participation in recent years. The conference will actually begin with an opening session on Monday af- ternoon followed by the President’s Din- ner on Monday evening. The gavel will open the Tuesday meeting preceded by a new breakfast meeting with our vendors. The business luncheon will be eliminated in favor of “lunch on your own” at one of the area restaurants or at the hotel restaurant. Tuesday afternoon sessions will resume at 1:30 pm. The Vendor Reception will proceed the Carrier of the Year Dinner (COTY) on Tuesday evening. This is a change from the Wednesday evening format. Light hor’-dourves will be served at the Vendor Reception followed by the COTY dinner. This will allow our ven- dors to attend the annual banquet. The Hot Ideas Breakfast will kick-off Wednesday morning followed by a Wednesday morning session. The con- ference will adjourn at 12:00 noon on Wednesday. With this new format, members can either stay over for a free afternoon on Wednesday or check out of the hotel and make their way back home.
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History was recorded at the 91st Annual TCMA Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, in October 2005. The Fort Worth meeting was the last TCMA confer-ence to be held in the fall. By unanimous consent of the members attending the 2005 conference, future conferences will be held in the spring. TCMA is fol-lowing a trend established by other sectionals and the Newspaper Association of America to schedule the annual meeting in the spring.
The 92nd Annual TCMA Conference is just around the corner in April 2006. Our meeting will be held at the Radisson South Padre Island Hotel in South Padre Island, Texas. This resort island is just minutes from the Harlingen or Brownsville airports. Our host, the Freedom Group Newspapers, tell us April is a delightful time to be in the Texas coastal city. Make plans now to be a part of the first TCMA spring time conference. It will be history in the making!
The Zinser Law Firm 2
Texas Roundup 3
New Board Members 4
2005 Conference Photos 5
TCMA Newsletter Sponsors 6
Our Newest Members 5
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November 2005
Historic Conference in Fort Worth
New Conference Format The TCMA Board of Directors estab-lished a new conference meeting format to encourage greater participation and allow our vendors to stay for the entire conference.
The TCMA sponsored golf tourna-ment has been eliminated due to a low participation in recent years.
The conference will actually begin with an opening session on Monday af-ternoon followed by the President’s Din-ner on Monday evening.
The gavel will open the Tuesday meeting preceded by a new breakfast meeting with our vendors. The business luncheon will be eliminated in favor of “lunch on your own” at one of the area restaurants or at the hotel restaurant.
Tuesday afternoon sessions will resume at 1:30 pm.
The Vendor Reception will proceed the Carrier of the Year Dinner (COTY) on Tuesday evening. This is a change from the Wednesday evening format. Light hor’-dourves will be served at the Vendor Reception followed by the COTY dinner. This will allow our ven-dors to attend the annual banquet.
The Hot Ideas Breakfast will kick-off Wednesday morning followed by a Wednesday morning session. The con-ference will adjourn at 12:00 noon on Wednesday.
With this new format, members can either stay over for a free afternoon on Wednesday or check out of the hotel and make their way back home.
Union Bogus Information
Requests Cost Employees The NLRB, in a 2 to 1 deci-sion (Liebman dissenting), has ruled that Richmond Times-Dispatch lawfully discontinued giving an annual Christmas gift. For years the newspaper had given the gift to all employees, union and nonunion alike. In July 2001, the Company an-nounced its intention to discon-tinue it.
With respect to GCIU Local 40 represented employees, the Company asked to meet with the union to bargain. The union made a very burdensome infor-mation request for financial data, claiming the Company "plead poverty" in its letter announcing its intent to end the gift. The Company provided the union with all public financial records (the newspaper is part of pub-licly traded Media General, Inc.) and repeatedly offered to bar-gain. The union would not meet, using the unanswered informa-tion request as its excuse. The Company, while denying it plead poverty, promptly sent a letter making it crystal clear there was not an "inability" to pay but a lack of desire to continue pay-ing.
The NLRB, affirming ALJ Rosenstein, ruled that Richmond Times-Dispatch did not claim an inability to pay and further noted that the follow-up letter resolved
any arguable ambiguity. Read in context, the company letter "depicted an industry-wide reve-nue down cycle and measures enacted in response." Inability to pay means the company has in-sufficient assets. That was not the case here. The NLRB also ruled that the union should have availed itself of the company's offer to bar-gain. The union "sat on its rights" by conditioning bargain-ing on its receipt of the informa-tion. Thus, discontinuing the gift was lawful.
Editor's note: The Zinser Law Firm represented Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Texas Circulation Management Association
TCMA Lone Star Review November 2005
James Smith
Editor
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April 2006 Conference Facts April 24-26, 2006
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Buyer’s Guide Notices will be mailed
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Abilene’s New Circulation Director Malcolm Brownell, the Abilene Reporter-News' new circulation director, was first at-tracted to the newspaper because it represented an opportunity to join the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. ''What attracted me first to this position was the opportunity to join Scripps, one of the most respected newspaper companies in the country,'' he said. ''After my wife and I spent a weekend in Abilene, this community became the biggest draw. We met no strangers.'' Brownell said he believes local newspapers bond the community together. Working primarily in circulation and marketing throughout his career, Brownell said local newspapers are some of the best bargains around. Brownell believes newspapers consoli-date items on everything from entertainment to sports to business into a product with an in-tensely local edge.
''The Abilene Reporter-News is the most effective vehicle for an advertiser to reach its audience,'' he said. ''The circulation department will work hard to increase that reach by grow-ing circulation through quality marketing and educating prospective readers on the benefits of reading our newspaper.''
Born and raised in Louisiana, Brownell, 37, comes from a family of diehard Louisiana State University fans. He maintains season tickets to LSU ball games no matter where he lives.
(Courtesy Abilene Reporter-News)
Texas Roundup!
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Membership Renewal Notices The TCMA By-Laws require the Secretary to send membership renewal notices each November for the suc-ceeding year.
Enclosed with your Lone Star Review is your mem-bership renewal notice.
Old Friends Meet In Fort Worth A 45 year friendship that began while rolling papers in Oklahoma City was rekindled at the TCMA Confer-ence in Fort Worth. Contractor of the Year Winner, Gary Recer, was sur-prised to see his junior high school friend, Dwayne Blakey at the TCMA Conference. Blakley is an em-ployee for Hamilton Circulation Supplies. He was work-ing his booth in the vendor room at the conference. Re-cer was in Fort Worth to accept his Carrier of the Year award.
The two started in the newspaper business when both were fourteen years old. Blakley and Recer delivered papers for the Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times. They developed a strong bond and both loved motorcycles. Recer left the newspaper business in his junior year of high school and the two went their sepa-rate ways.
After serving in the U.S. Army, Recer and Blakley con-nected up again. Blakley had moved to Dallas and encour-aged Recer to move to Texas, too. Recer never left Texas but Blakley returned to Oklahoma City and spent most of his career as a circulation manager in Mid-west newspapers.
Recer says that seeing Blakley at the conference was a pleasant surprise. The two spent several hours catching up on old times and reminiscing about delivering papers in wax paper and in the snow when the temperature was near zero degrees.
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South Padre Selected as 2006 Conference Site The Freedom Newspaper Group has offered to host the first Spring-time TCMA Conference. The Valley Morning Star, Brownsville Herald, and the McAllen Monitor have selected the Radisson South Padre Island Resort as the host hotel. The conference dates will be April 24-26, 2006. The Fort Worth conference attendees voted to change the by-laws that govern the annual conference date.
TCMA last met at this hotel in October 1998. According to the hotel sales staff, April is an excellent month to come to South Padre Island. The weather will be “just right” for our conference. Interim President, Lane Aten, secured the hotel in behalf of the Freedom Newspaper Group.
Make plans now to be in South Padre next April, 2006. You won’t want to miss the first spring time conference with the new conference format.
TCMA New Board Members Randy Schawe (USA Today), a Houston na-tive, was elected Second Vice-President of TCMA at the 2005 TCMA Conference. Randy began his newspaper career at the Austin American-Statesman in 1983. He joined USA Today in 1991 in Los An-geles, California, before moving back home to Houston in 1994 as the Circulation Manager of USA Today. He was promoted to Circulation Director in 1997 and is now responsible for the Houston and New Orleans, Louisiana USA Today offices.
Herman Williams (Dallas Morning News) was elected to Membership Director position. Herman will be responsible for rounding up new members for TCMA and locating those that have strayed.
Steve Weidenheft (PDI Plastics) is the new As-sociate Director, joining Tom Mace. These two men represent the Associate Members (Vendors) of TCMA.
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Our Newest Members!
Priscilla Acuna Alice Echo-News Journal Donald Boyd Wichita Falls Times Record Malcolm Brownell Abilene Reporter-News Jeff DeLoach Corpus Christi Caller-Times Robert Halpenny Dallas Morning News Chris Handley Dallas Morning News Agustin Magallanes Laredo Morning News Susan Marvin Harris & Baseview Aleksei Reid Dallas Morning News Barclay Walker BC Incentives Keith Watson Dallas Morning News Steve Weidenheft PDI Plastics Wesley Williams Dallas Morning News Jeffry Spracklen Dallas Morning News
COTY Applications Due 12/15
Due to the shortened time before the next conference, the 2006 Carrier of the Year Applications were mailed earlier this month. The due date for your initial submissions is December 15, 2005. Finalists will be notified in early January.
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