THG-owned City A.M. is to take up the vacant spots in the Evening Standard’s distributioån network across London when the Standard’s print edition goes weekly from September 26.
City A.M. will be available from 6am on Mondays to Thursdays, having dropped its Friday edition last year as many commuters end the week working at home.
The new-look weekly edition of The London Standard, as it will be renamed, will then be distributed from 4pm on Thursday afternoons starting on 26 September and be available until Monday morning each week.
City A.M. will continue to distribute about 70,000 copies per edition. Its latest ABC figure for August shows an average distribution of 68,144.
Manchester’s THG acquired City A.M. from administrators in a £1.5m deal last year, with THG chief promising it would become a “cheerleader” for UK business, while maintaining its editorial independence.
Since the takeover, the paper has added a UK newsdesk in Manchester and signed a content sharing deal with the Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo. The paper’s new, Manchester-based owner, meanwhile, last month moved into a prestigious new London hub in The City
