by Yasmin | Nov 19, 2012 | 1980s, Magazines/Newspapers
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP). He rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. His death revealed huge discrepancies in his companies’ finances, including the Mirror Group pension fund, which Maxwell had fraudulently misappropriated.
He escaped from Nazi occupation, joining the Czechoslovak army in exile in World War 2 and then fighting in the British army where he was decorated. After the war he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major publishing house. After six years as an MP during the 1960s, he again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan, Inc, among other publishing companies.
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by Yasmin | Oct 24, 2012 | 1970s, Magazines/Newspapers, Television
TVTimes is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom by IPC Media, a subsidiary of Time Warner. It is known for its access to television actors and their programmes. In 2006 it was refreshed for a more modern look, increasing its emphasis on big star interviews and soaps.
TVTimes belongs to IPC Media’s family of television magazines, which form the sub-group TX. This includes What’s on TV, TV Easy and TV & Satellite Week, as well as the soap bi-weekly Soaplife.
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by Yasmin | Oct 22, 2012 | 1970s, Magazines/Newspapers
The Sunday Times is the best-selling national Sunday broadsheet newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary ofNews International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times. The two papers were founded independently and have been under common ownership only since 1966. They were bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News International in 1981.
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by Yasmin | Sep 14, 2012 | 1980s, Magazines/Newspapers, Television
The magazine was launched in 1955, but became a national magazine only in 1968. Prior to 1968, several of the regional ITV companies – Westward Television, Scottish Television, Tyne Tees Television, Ulster Television, TWW and Teledu Cymru (and briefly WWN) – produced their own listings magazines. The Midlands originally had their own edition of TVTimes listing ATV and ABCprogrammes, but a separate listings magazine in the Midlands called TV World existed from 1964-68 before TVTimes went national. Until television listings were deregulated in 1991 the TVTimes was the only place where complete weekly listings of ITV programmes could be published.[2]
Channel Television continued to publish its own listings magazine until 1991 (it was feared that the company might go under without the revenue from its own magazine).
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by Yasmin | Sep 11, 2012 | 1990s, Magazines/Newspapers
Advert from 1996 for WH Smith featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst
WHSmith plc (LSE: SMWH) (known colloquially as Smith’s) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is best known for its chain of high street, railway station, airport, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, and entertainment products. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It has been innovative over the course of its history, being the first chain store company in the world and was responsible for the creation of the ISBN book catalogue system.
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by Yasmin | Aug 13, 2012 | 1980s, Magazines/Newspapers
The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain’s biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011. Its sister paper, theDaily Mail was launched in 1896.
It is owned by Associated Newspapers, but the editorial staff are entirely separate from the Daily Mail. It had an average daily circulation of 1,979,701 in September 2011. In July, 2011, with the closure of the News of the World the Mail on Sunday sold some 2.5 million copies a week but by September that had fallen back to just under 2 million.
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