Research into Media Institutions

Research into Media Institutions

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  Research into MediaInstitutions<br />IPC Media <br />IPC Media is one of the United Kingdom’s leading consumer magazine and digital publishers, with a large portfolio, selling over 350 million copies a year!<br />IPC Media group titles under 5 magazine divisions;<br />Connect (Women’s weeklies, such as ‘Now’ and ‘Look’)
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  Inspire (‘Leisure’ and‘Specialist’
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  Ignite (Men’s Lifestyleand ‘Entertainment’
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  Southbank (‘Women’s lifestyle’and ‘Home Interest’)
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  TX (‘Portfolio ofTelevision titles)Music magazines they own consist of; NME and GUITAR.<br />Bauer Media Group<br />This is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately owned and been under management by the Bauer family. <br />The music magazines this publisher provides are;<br />Q
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  Kerrang
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  Mojo
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  On their website,these 3 magazines are being advertised as men’s magazines.
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  Emap
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  Emap was thesecond largest magazine publisher in the UK without roughly 18% of the newsstand market by revenue. However, in July 2007, the company announced a strategic review. The result was that the company was to split up and be sold off in December.
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  The business-to-business magazineswere sold to Guardian Media Group and private equity firm Apax – which owns Incisive – for £1b. The new company is to be called Incisive-Emap.
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  Its consumer magazinesand radio arm, including Kiss & Magic, went to Bauer for £1.14billion, in which made the German magazine publisher the largest in Britain.