Talk:Nashville Banner

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I'm not going to alter the entry because I don't have time at the moment to double-check facts, but I recall that the modern Nashville Banner was called just that from the outset in 1876. There was a Nashville Republican Banner earlier in the 1800s, and possibly more than one title by that name at different times under different owners. In NRB issues from the 1830s, I have seen the rampant-eagle masthead device that continued to appear in the Banner as recently as the 1970s (and was reproduced in miniature on the final front page, 20 Feb. 1998 -- whose lead photo of the Banner staff featured my wife Nicki and our 3-week-old Eloise at front and center, I must note with familial pride). But to my knowledge, the proprietors of the 1876 start-up had no relationship to those of the earlier Banner(s). -- Tom Wood
 * The relationship between the Republican Banner and the Nashville Banner is a bit mysterious. By most accounts, the Nashville Banner sprang forth independantly in 1876, but there are a few strange facts which seem to indicate a connection to the earlier Banner:


 * 1) The Republican Banner ceased publication in 1875 (merging with the Union And American to form The American) and the Nashville Banner started publication in 1876 (less than a year later).
 * 2) In the Nashville Banner Room in the Downtown library there is a framed copy of the Republican Banner.
 * 3) The mastheads of the two papers are virtually identical.
 * Perhaps this requires a bit more research. Kaldari 01:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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Circulation History
I removed the following from Circulation history, as it has no source, and seems speculative.

A bit of gallows humor occasionally heard in the Banner newsroom, as a new obit came in, was: "There goes another reader." Figures from the newspaper's quarterly circulation audits illustrate how true the jibe became through the course of the 1990s, with readership dropping even as Nashville grew dramatically in population.

Paige Matheson (talk) 17:34, 2 February 2023 (UTC)