Less than 3% of Azerbaijanis buy newspapers daily

Less than 3% of Azerbaijanis buy newspapers daily

Regnum, Russia
July 18 2006

Results of poll on the media market situation were announced today,
July 18, in Baku, REGNUM correspondent reported.

According to the statement of Chairman of the Yeni Nasil (New
Generation) journalist association Arif Aliev, the poll results show
that 71% of respondents do not buy newspapers and magazines, 2.8%
buy newspapers everyday, and 17% buy them once a week. Each daily
newspaper in Azerbaijan enjoys an average of 3.5 readers.

The poll also showed that the most interesting subject for the readers
is the Nagorno Karabakh issue. Percentage of readers interested in
the political parties’ activities is very low.