This is the decennial year for Great Andhra Weekly Tabloid in Print. Taking off as a web portal in the year 2002, greatandhra.com could stand up as the most browsed news and entertainment portal within no time and the saga is still continuing. In the process of that successful journey, in Feb 2012, the Greatandhra weekly tabloid in print was launched.
It is indeed a Herculean task to start up a print magazine and the atmosphere was not so encouraging for the print media with regard to costs and ROI. Many magazines were closed and few were in the verge of shutting down at that time.
But still, greatandhra ventured to start with Shri Satish Chander as its Editor. Surprisingly, the tabloid pulled traction from the Telugu Film Industry offices in Hyderabad to the tea stalls in remote villages of AP and Telangana.
The circulation of the weekly tabloid could stride up to 50000 until before the pandemic outburst. Though there was a hiccup in circulation during the pandemic times, greatandhra still stood top in the segment.
It should be underlined that this all happened without any publicity. The success and the growth happened organically. The perennial contribution of regular columnists like Shri Satish Chandar, Shri MBS Prasad, Shri Chandramouli (Astrologer), Shri Kommineni Srinivasa Rao, Shri Jeevan Reddy, Shri Vedula Murthy and Shri Medapalli Nagendar has been helping the tabloid to pull the traction.
We thank the readers, advertisers, contributing journalists and columnists for this huge success and expect the same patronage for years down the line.
Venkat Arikatla
