[AmiableLabs]

What Do You Think of the New RFTN Format?

Better, Worse, or the Same?

 

[Russ]

Do not have it yet. Let us see if the new format speeds up delivery.

 

[JS]

Better!! Hands down.

JS

(change is good ;-) )

 

[Lady Duck Hunter]

I don't have it either.

I'm sure it will be fine. more of a magazine type like Retriever Journal and Hunting Retriever, I am thinking. Photos and advertising should be higher quality, since slick paper affords better quality prints.

 

[Novemberwitch]

Better.

cover photo is awesome!

 

[Jon Couch]

Looks alot better on my coffee table. More like a magazine than a newspaper!

 

[Franco]

The new format is a big improvement and the publication now looks professional.

Why would they dropped the FT from the RFTN, with it now being just RN? Could it be that they are trying to appeal to more readers and the FT part is just not as important anymore? Seems to me that there is more editorial in this issue about Field Trials, so why drop it from the name?

Since it is owned by both the National and National Amateur clubs, two organizations which sole purpose is Field Trials, it just doesn't make sense.

 

[Ted Shih]

They have been answering the phone "Retriever News" for several years now.

I imagine that they are trying to:

1) Simplify
2) Reach a broader audience

 

[Franco]

They have been answering the phone "Retriever News" for several years now.

That's like when I call the Law Firm that does some work for me that has five names in it but when the receptionist answers the phone she says, "Law Office".

As we both stated in our post, must be they are trying to increase readership. Just hope they don't forget who brought them to the dance and they don't add a Labradoodle section to appeal to that interest as well!

 

[Troopers Mom]

I like everything about it. Great change! Front cover is awesome.

Arleen

 

[Henry V]

Change, in this case, appears to be good.

I was a skeptic but I like it.

 

[Paul Rainbolt]

Recieved mine today , looks nice, easy to read and hold.

 

[Lady Duck Hunter]

I got mine. I liked it ok. I voted that I liked it the same. It is nice but so was the old format.

 

[Charles C.]

If the new format makes it come faster, it will be a huge improvement.

 

[YardleyLabs]

If the new format makes it come faster, it will be a huge improvement.

I got mine and it's the first time I've ever received an issue before mid-month.

 

[AmiableLabs]

bump up bttt

 

[jeff t.]

I received the newly formatted and renamed "Retriever News" yesterday and must confess that I am not impressed. Part of it is my aversion to change, but mostly everything is physically smaller. The pictures are smaller to the point of being more difficult to make out the dog, Seems like there is more "fluff" articles that seem like infomercials. The field trial and hunt test photos are together on the same page and, as I said before, are smaller. Did I mention that everything seems smaller?

After writing the above, I did a side-by-side comparison of last month's RFTN and the new RN...some things are smaller (e.g. results and photos), and others (advertisements) have remained the same. Overall, there seems to be less "white space"

 

[K G]

I've been looking forward to voting on this poll....IF I ever get my "new" issue...............

kg

 

[Charles C.]

I like the format, generally, but did not like the following:

- the pictures were smaller
- there were less pictures
- the hunt test pics were mixed in with the field trial pictures

 

[Karen McCullah]

I like it "worse"??

What the....?!