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Magazine launches & events 1995-94-93
Magazines listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabetic links to magazines on the right. List of launch years| Good Times
December 1995/January 1996. Touch International; £1.95; 100 pages. Editor: Laura Davis 'Changing attitudes to age'. Free to members of the Association of Retired and Persons Over Fifty (ARPO50) Contract magazine pulishers |
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Wired November 1995. Wired and Guardian. £3.50. 116 pages. Silver and gold inks used on subscriber forms. Thomas Paine cover. Closed about a year later Guardian profile |
| Raw
October 25 1995. Emap Metro; 80 pages. Editor: Howard Johnson. (Had been Rock Action Weekly 1988-1996.) Sample issue of new rock music title free in a box with Select and various goodies Emap profile |
| Goal
October 1995. IPC; £1 (£2.25); 132 pages. Editor: Paul Hawksbee 'From the makers of 90 Minutes' (had been Goal from 1968-74) IPC profile |
| Ikon
September 1995. European Consumer Publications; 99p; 132 pages. Editor: Chris Roberts Music, film and sport. 'Privilege card' on cover |
| Maxim - CD-Rom cover mount
August 1995. Dennis. Editor: Gill Hudson Company also tried to launch magazine CD-Rom, called Blender (a title Dennis was to re-use several years later when it launched a music magazine in the US) Dennis profile Men's monthlies case study |
| True
July/August 1995. True magazine; £2.50; 116 pages. Editor: Claude Grunitsky Sees hip hop as an agent of social change. Grunitsky had written letter to Sheryl Garratt at The Face about lack of hip hop coverage; was later to go on to launch Trace magazine |
 Encore first issue cover. The competition was to win Mick Jagger's Golf with a boot stuffed with CDs |
Encore
July 1995. Haymarket; £2.25; 172 pages. Editor: Paul Colbert Music magazine 'officially approved by Virgin'. Mick Jagger cover Haymarket profile |
| PC Guide
July 1995. Future. £4.99 with CD. 148 pages. Editor: Mark Higham 'Advice without the jargon' was the main selling point Future profile |
| Muzik
June 1995. IPC; 95p (£2.20); 124 pages. Editor: Push 'Dance music is the music of today': house, techno, jungle, garage, hiphop, ambient, soul. 'definitive' club listings IPC profile |
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SFX
June 1995. Future. £3. 100 pages. Editor: Matt Bielby. Science fiction focus. Tank Girl film based on comic series on the cover Future profile |
| Bliss
June 1995. Emap Elan. £1.30; 116 pages. Editor: Dawn Bebe Came with free horoscope magazine in a carrier bag Emap profile Women's monthlies profiled |
| Unzip CD-Rom
May 1995. IPC/Zone. Claimed to be 'the UK's first fully interactive magazine on CD-Rom'. Based on content from New Scientist, NME and Vox. Zone did technical work. 15 age label; £15.99 introductory offer; for Mac and PC IPC profile |
| Classic FM
March 1995. Contract magazine for Classic FM by John Brown. £2.20; 100 pages. Editor: Lisa Barnard Design consultant: David Hillman of Pentagram (who had worked on Nova in the 1960s and redesigned the Guardian in the early 1980s). Came with booklet of £30 in CD vouchers |
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Top of the Pops
March 1995. BBC Worldwide; £1.25; 52 pages. Editor: Peter Loraine Brand extension from the long-running television series. Challenged Emap's Smash Hits.With cassette and poster BBC Magazines profile |
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Men's Health
February/March 1995. Rodale. Editor: David Hale. £2.20; 132 pages. ‘Tons of useful stuff’ from this UK version of US title Rodale profile Men's monthlies case study |
| Girl Talk
February 22 1995. BBC With free choker BBC Magazines profile |
| Adobe Magazine
Three language variants for promotional magazine from the developers of the Photoshop digital editing system |
| CD-Rom PC Kids
Paragon. Editor: Paul Mallinson Reviewed software aimed at children Paragon profile |
Magazine launches & events 1994
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.Net December 1994. Future, Bath; £2.95; 116 pages. Editor: Matt Bielby. Aimed to make sense of the information superhighway: email, netsurfing; gophering; the world wide web Future profile |
| Wh@t Net Winter 1994. WV Publications, London; £2.95; 100 pages. Editor: Steve May. Came with cover disc: internet starter kit with Demon internet service provider |
| Audio Visuality November 1994. Media Communication & Publishing, London; £2.95; 116 pages. Editor: Karen Foulis. Digital sight and sound |
| PC Pro November 1994. Dennis, London. £2.25. Double gatefold cover. 406 pages with CD-Rom. Editor: Barry Plows Dennis profile |
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Four Four Two September 1994. Haymarket. £2.10. 132 pages. Editor: Paul Simpson Sophisticated approach to football Haymarket profile |
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Eva September 14 1994. IPC. 20p trial issue. Take a Break clone IPC profile Women's weeklies case study Women's magazines covers |
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Zest Autumn 1994. National Magazines, London. £1.75; 176 pages (included 8-page uncoated paper section and fold-out). Editors: Vanessa Raphaely and Eve Cameron. "Health and beauty for a new generation"; a Cosmopolitan publication Nat Mags profile Women's monthlies profiled Women's magazines covers |
| Perspectives on Architecture April 1994. Wordsearch and Perfect Harmony in association with the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, London. £2.50;102 pages (including bound-in subscriptions card). Editor: Dan Cruikshank The heir to the throne followed up on his interest in architecture with this magazine and his own institute. Had famously called a proposed extension to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square 'a carbuncle'. Closed in 1998 |
| Deadpan April 1994. DMC Publishing, London; £1.95; 68pages. Editor: David Davies. Claimed to be "Britain's first national comedy magazine" |
| 24 Seven April 1994. Kandoo, London; £1.40; 84 pages; Editor: Marian Buckley. Club listings, music and fashion |
| Multimedia & CD-Rom Now April 1994. Europress, Macclesfield; £4.95; 116 pages. Editor: Duncan Evans. Plus CD-Rom. In card/plastic wrapper |
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Loaded May 1994. IPC magazines; £95p (£2); 122 pages. Editor: James Brown. "For men who should know better" Men's magazines IPC profile |
| Attitude May 1994. Northern & Shell, London; £2.95, 132 pages. Editor: Tim Nicholson |
 Coronation
Street first
issue cover of the official magazine in 1994 |
Coronation Street January. Newsstand Publications, Oldham OL9 6QS; Granada Television.
36pp. £1.75. Eds: Brian Clarke & Daran Little |
Magazine launches & events 1993
 Squib comedy magazine first issue |
Squib 'The magazine of comedy allsorts' |
| Chic November/December 1993. Hamerville Magazines, Watford. £1.70; 130 pages. editor: Joyce Hopkirk. 'For women who can choose'. Interview with Eve Pollard, then editor of the Daily Express, who was later to launch her own short-lived magazine for women, Aura in May 2000. By November 1996, Chic was owned by Chic Magazines Ltd, in Northern & Shell Tower (see OK!). Women's glossies profiled |
| Tate: the art magazine Winter 1993. Wordsearch/Tate gallery; £2.95; 86 pages (double cover). Editor: Tim Marlow |
| Sports Digest October 1993. £1.95; 130 pages. Editor: Ian Burns Sporting legends supplement. Copy provided by Fleet Street writers |
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Top Gear October 1993. BBC Magazines. £2.40. 252 pages. Editor: Kevin Blick. Gatefold and split cover with silver ink. Came with poster and sticker. Compare use of silver half cover with Bike December 1996 BBC Magazines profile Car magazines case study |
| Edge October 1993. Future, Bath; £3; 146 pages. Editor: Steve Jarratt. First issue sealed in a black plastic bag. "The future of video gaming" Future profile |
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Carweek August 25 1993. Emap Launched as a weekly tabloid newspaper. Failed despite expensive marketing campaign and relaunches, first as an A4-tall newspaper format and final an A4 glossy. Closed January 95 having cost £7 million. Emap profile Motoring case study |
| Fore August 1993 Golf maganine launched in in plastic holder with cover gifts |
| The Zine July 1993 |
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Bite June 1993. Ann Summers Ltd. £1.95; 100 Pages. Editor: Catherine Handcock Women's glossies profiled |
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Guess Who! Summer 1993. Harmsworth Magazines. Editor: Leonard Stall. Cover showed Elton John and Princess Diana. Hello! spoof see OK! |
| Your Garden May 1993. IPC, London; £1.45; 112 pages. editor: Graham Clarke. Free gloves. Gardener's World-like contents and cover www.ipcmedia.com |
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OK! |
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Top Sante March 1993. Presse Publishing, London; £1.30; 100 pages. Editor: Frankie McGowan. "The magazine about feeling and looking good". Bought by Emap in March 1997 Emap profile |
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| Games Master January 1993. Future, Bath/Channel 4, London. £1.75; 148 pages. Editor: Jim Douglas. "The greatest show on TV is now a magazine". Free stickers and cheats handbook |
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- 24 Seven
- Adobe Magazine
- Attitude
- Audio Visuality
- Bite
- Bliss
- Car Week
- Chic
- CD-Rom PC for Kids
- Classic FM
- Coronation Street
- Deadpan
- Edge
- Encore
- Eva
- Fore
- Four Four Two
- Games Master
- Girl Talk
- Goal
- Good Times
- Guess Who!
- Homes & Antiques
- Ikon
- Loaded
- Maxim
- Maxim- CD-Rom
- Men's Health
- Multimedia & CD-Rom Now
- Muzik
- .Net
- OK!
- PC Guide
- PC Pro
- Perspectives on Architecture
- Raw
- SFX
- Sports Digest
- Squib
- Tate
- Top Gear
- Top of the Pops
- Top Sante
- True
- Unzip CD-Rom
- Wh@t Net
- Wired
- Your Garden
- Zest
- The Zine
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