Midlands Newspapers Inc. said it would roll out Falcon Circulation software from Advanced Publishing Technology at 20 of its newspapers by spring of 2007.

Midlands, headquartered in Papillion, Neb., a suburb of Omaha, has three dailies in Nebraska, three dailies in Iowa and a number of weeklies in both states. Midlands’ dailies are the Scottsbluff Star Herald, the Kearney Hub and the North Platte Telegraph in Nebraska, and the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, the Shenandoah Valley News and the Ames Tribune in Iowa.  

The Falcon Circulation app has been live at Midlands’ Kearney Hub since August, and installation is currently under way at the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil and six additional newspapers in the Western Iowa Newspapers group.

The app supports distribution requirements at each of Midlands’ newspapers, APT said. Customer service reps will have access to subscriber history, carrier and route information.

Midlands deployed APT’s ad software across some of its papers in 2003.