Together they have about a third of the national newspaper circulation.
Its daily newspaper circulation in March 2005, the most recent month available, was 1,136,433.
Daily newspaper circulation reached its peak in 1984, at 63.3 million.
State owned newspapers make up some 80-85 percent of newspaper circulation.
The total Dutch newspaper circulation in 2002 was 4.9 million (4.2m paid and 0.7m free).
With the rise of cable television and, later, the Internet, newspaper circulation began to decline.
Anyone with 8 percent of newspaper circulation is permitted one network, and nobody can own more than two networks.
The law would prevent those who own more than 16 percent of Italy's total newspaper circulation from owning a television station.
Publishers fear that more states will follow California in imposing a sales tax on newspaper circulation.
Over the last decade, newspaper circulation has generally declined in the face of competition from the Internet and other sources.