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Magazine launches & events 1997 Back to launches
Magazines listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabetic links to magazines on the right.| Total Internet
December. Rapide £3.95; 132 pages. Editor: Chris Marke With free web design book |
| Adrenalin
November/December. Alliance International Media. £2.75; 132 pages. Editor: Justin Evans 'The magazine that makes your heart beat faster'. Cover showed Angelica from TV series Baywatch Men's magazines case study |
| Line Dance Party
November. Link House; £4.95; 52 pages. Editor: 'Big' Jim Readman. With CD |
| Scene
November. Spiro Group. £2.25. 132 pages. Editor: Deborah Bee. Cutting-edge fashion title. Editorial back cover. Matt varnish Women's glossies profiled |
| Internet Works
November. Future. £2.99; 108 pages. Editor: Marcus Austin With CD-Rom in slip-on half cover. Internet sector splitting into niches: work; hobby; men's Future profile www.iwks.com |
| Family Life
November. BBC Worldwide. £1.95; 132 pages. Editor: Anita Bevan 'At last! A magazine for every aspect of your life' BBC Magazines profile |
| The Modern Review
October. Modern Media, London. £2.95; 92 pages. Editor: Charlotte Raven/ Julie Burchill. Art direction: (Simon) Esterson (Mike) Lackersteen Cover photo by Rankin |
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Frank
October. Wagadon. £2.70. Editor Tina Gaudoin A4 sample distributed with Observer. Closed at end of 1999. Wagadon taken over by Emap in early 2000 Wagadon profile Women's glossies profiled |
| Cover
October. Cover Publishing, £2.50; 132 pages. Editors: Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger Unusual size between A5 and A4 |
| So
October. £2; 100 pages. Editor: Kirsty Robinson 'Attitude with intelligence' for women Women's glossies profiled |
| Cult TV
October. Future; £2.75; 84 pages. Editor: Karen Levell With TV test cards to cut out and B5 posters of programmes. 'For a cooler kind of couch potato' Future profile |
| Good Health
October. Redwood/BBC Enterprises; £1.30; 100 pages. Editor: Janette Marshall Stapled. Summer health poster. Carried BBC logo in coloured bar across the top of the cover, as did other BBC launches BBC Magazines profile |
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Traveller
October. Conde Nast. £2.70. 248 pages. Editor: Sarah Miller. Policy of not accepting free trips, to ensure editorial independence. Conde Nast profile www.cntraveller.com |
| Music - 5th year
September. BBC. £3.75 Silver cover. With Yehudi Menuhin CD and postcards BBC Magazines profile |
| Good Food - redesigned;
with Good Living strap-on
September BBC Magazines profile |
| Melody Maker - with CD-Rom
6 September. IPC With free CD-Rom IPC profile |
| Passion
Autumn. £3. Editor: Carrie Booth Women's magazine with music theme and music CD Women's glossies profiled |
| Uncut
June. IPC; £1.50 (special); 164 pages. Editor: Allan Jones Music and movie magazine. House ads for Eat Soup and Mountain Bike Rider IPC profile www.uncut.net |
| Movie Plus
May. Inside Publications. £2.40; 100 pages. Editor: Carole Childs |
| Best - 500th issue
13 May. Gruner & Jahr. Celebrated with gold ink on cover Gruner & Jahr profile Women's weeklies case study |
| The Box
April/May. Haymarket, £1 (£1.95), 132 pages. Editor: Paul Simpson Paul Whitehouse on the cover Haymarket profile |
| MBR (Mountan Bike Rider)
April. IPC; £1.50 special price (£2.95); 156 pages With video IPC profile |
| Xtreme
April. Xtreme Publications; £2.50; 124 pages. Editor: Jerome Smail 'For men who live on the edge'. Email addresses given for staff |
| Garden Answers
April. With small spade as cover mount |
| Fresh
March. Hair & Beauty Ltd, £1.95, 100 pages. Editor: Deidre Forbes 'New attitude' 'Girls behaving badly' 'Naughty ways to send him to Sexual heaven' Women's weeklies case study |
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Total Film
February. |
| X-net
January/February Top-shelf men's magazine with CD-Rom Men's magazines case study |
| Film & TV Week
January. IPC. 40p (trial price), 82 pages. Editor: Peter Genower Attempt to expand on TV & Satellite Week formula IPC profile |
| Internet Business
January. Internet Business World; £2.95; 100 pages. Editor: Tim Wilson Richard Branson shown on the cover www.ibmag.co.uk |
| Computer Success
Part work with CD-Rom |
| Back to top | Back to launches & events |
- Adrenalin
- Best - 500
- Box, The
- Computer Success
- Cover
- Cult TV
- Family Life
- Film & TV Week
- Frank
- Fresh
- Garden Answers (spade cover gift)
- Good Food (redesigned)
- Good Health
- Internet Business
- Internet Works
- LIne Dance Party
- MBR
- Melody Maker (with CD-Rom)
- Modern Review, The
- Movie Plus
- Music (5th year)
- Scene
- So
- Total Film
- Total Internet
- Traveller
- Uncut
- X-Net
- Xtreme
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