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Welcome to the Melbourne Observer

Victoria's Independent Weekly Newspaper

First Published on September 14, 1969. Now In Our 40th Year

More than 5964 new major display advertisers in the Melbourne Observer

Great Things To Do, Top Places To Go, Good People To Deal With:

The Best of Everything!

Plus Free Classified Ads every week

The Melbourne Observer is Victoria's great weekly family lifestyle newspaper.

PLUS ... the Melbourne Observer has introduced more than 5964 major display advertisers to its readers since 2002.

(Includes bookings to September 3, 2008 issue)

Congratulations to our Observer Sales Team

on our booming sales results ...

Already includes 864 new display advertisers in 2008;

1227 in 2007; 633 in 2006; 1086 in 2005; 725 in 2004; 607 in 2003; 222 in 2002; plus 600 extra Travel Ideas.

Click here for details of our preferred advertisers.

This Edition of the Melbourne Observer

This Week's Edition of the Melbourne Observer

Our August 6 edition is out now. Available at all good newsagents. Click here to view this edition FREE!

If your newsagent does not have the Melbourne Observer in stock, ask your newsagent to order copies from All Day Distribution, phone (03) 9482 1145.

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At approx. 400 newsagencies across Victoria - every week!

Click here for a list of our network of almost 400 Distribution Outlets across the entire Melbourne metropolitan area, and country Victoria.

COUNTRY outlets at Albury, Bairnsdale, Ballarat, Bendigo, Benalla, Cowes, Lakes Entrance, Leongatha, Mildura, Moe, Pakenham, Sale, Shepparton, Swan Hill, Traralgon, Warrnambool and Wodonga. Check our new Victorian Rural News section.

Work Opportunities with the Melbourne Observer

Advertising Sales Agents

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Read the Melbourne Observer Blog

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Coming Next: September 2008 Travel Feature

Out Soon: September 2008 Travel Guide

Our next Full-Colour Travel Monthly feature for the year will be published in our September 2008 edition.

Booking Deadline: 4pm, Friday, August 28, 2008.

Copy Deadline: 4pm, Wednesday, August 28, 2008.

Advertisers get a BONUS - the feature will also be published in our Sydney News and Brisbane Sun newspapers.

Click here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Click here to see a sample Travel 'editorial-style' Quarter-Page: 175mm depth x 125mm depth, editorial style

Click here to see the latest list of advertisers in this feature.

Click here for more than 1000 Travel recommendations

Click here for our Travel Monthly archives (PDF format)

2008-2009 Publishing Schedule

Click here to view the complete 2008-2009 Publishing Schedule for Travel Monthly

Melbourne Observer Souvenirs

Keith McGowan's 50 Years in Radio

Read the May 30, 2007 Magazine - Pages 1-28, Pages 29-42, Pages 43-56

(PDF - you need Adobe Acrobat software on your computer).

75 Years of Overnight Radio

View the Observer '75 Years of Overnight Radio' magazine, November 2006: Pages 1-24

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Melbourne Observer 37th Anniversary Souvenir

Read the September 13, 2006 magazine:

Magazine Pages 1-16, Magazine Pages 17-32

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Melbourne Observer - On Radio

The Melbourne Observer - Radio Program

The Melbourne Observer has expanded across Victoria with our own weekly radio program on 3RPH - 1179FM - Radio for the Print Handicapped.
Articles from the Observer are read in a half-hour program at 9pm every Wednesday. Four readers take turns to read items from the current week’s edition.
3RPH is operated by Vision Australia, under the leadership of General Manager Stephen Jolley.
3RPH can be heard across the entire Melbourne metropolitan area on a normal AM radio. The 1179 frequency was once occupied by 3KZ.
The Melbourne Observer program can also be heard on the 3RPH relay stations across country Victoria: Albury/Wodonga, Bendigo, Geelong, Mildura, Shepparton, Warragul and Warrnambool.
Melbourne: 1179 AM. Albury-Wodonga: 101.7 FM. Bendigo: 88.7 FM. Geelong: 99.5 FM. Mildura: 107.5 FM. Shepparton: 100.1 FM. Warragul: 93.5 FM Warrnambool: 94.5 FM.

What's Being Said About The Melbourne Observer

Mark Fletcher, writing for the Australian Newsagency Blog, about matters relating to Australia's 4600 newsagents:

www.towersystems.com.au/fhn_blog/archives/2005/09/melbourne_obser.html

'Melbourne Observer - A Newspaper Success Story'

"We used to sell two or three copies of the Melbourne Observer, a weekly tabloid newspaper. Now, we're selling between 60 and 100 copies a week. This jump in sales has occurred in the last two months. It has happened as a result of the product being re-worked to better connect with a specific demographic. It helps that the local talkback station discusses the newspaper regularly on the overnight shift. Melbourne Observer customers are not your usual newspaper customers so we’re seeing some welcome additional traffic."

'Melbourne Observer achieving stellar sales success'

“The Melbourne Observer is a weekly tabloid geared to the older demographic. Our sales continue to rise.
“It’s an example of a niche community newspaper delivering what its readers want. No harm in that.
“What I like is that MO extends our connect with its demographic and these customers are loyal. I’m happy to promote it.”

3AW Overnighters / Melbourne Observer Promotions