This document summarizes several major media magazine publishers in the UK and the types of magazines they produce. It finds that Future Publishing specializes in rock and guitar magazines and has a strong digital presence. Bauer Media also focuses on specific music genres like rock. In contrast, IPC Magazines and BBC Studios produce magazines on a wide variety of topics not focused on one genre. Emap is not recommended as it does not produce any music magazines. Development Hell and Thrust LTD are identified as independent publishers of dance music magazines.

1. MEDIA MAGAZINE
INSTITUTIONS
What they do.

2. THE BIG INSTITUTIONS

3. MAGAZINES BY
 LOOK NOTICE HOW THIS
 NME COMPANY MAINLY
MAKES FEMALE.
 TV TIMES MAGAZINES. ‘NME’ IS A
 HOME AND GARDEN BIT OF AN ANOMOLY.
‘NME’ AND ‘NOW’ ARE
 MARIE CLAIRE THE ONLY MUSIC
 PICK ME UP MAGAZINES BUT THEY
ARE VERY DIFFERENT
 SOAPHOUSE
FROM EACHOTHER
 NOW WHICH SHOWS IPC DOES
 CYCLING WEEKLY NOT SPECIALISE IN ONE
CERTAIN GENRE.

4. MAGAZINES BY
NOW KNOWN AS
 TOP OF THE POPS ‘IMMEDIATE MEDIA
 CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPANY’, FORMER BBC
MAGAZINES MAKES
 RADIO TIMES
MAGAZINES ULTIMATELY
 GARDENERS WORLD BASED AROUND
 TOP GEAR PROGRAMMES ON THE BBC
SUCH AS ‘MATCH OF THE
 DOCTOR WHO ADVENTURES DAY’ AND ‘TOP OF THE POPS’.
 CBEEBIES WEEKLY AS FAR AS MUSIC MAGAZINES
GO THERE IS NO MAIN GENRE
 MATCH OF THE DAY AND IT WOULD PROBABLY
 BBC MUSIC ONLY BE WORTHWHILE IF MY
MAGAZINE WAS CALLED
‘RADIO 1’ OR SOMETHING.

5. MAGAZINES BY
WITH MUSIC MAGS
 HEAT LIKE MOJO, KERRANG
 ZOO AND Q BAUER
MEDIA DEFINITELY
 4MUSIC
LOOKS LIKE IT HAS A
 MOJO NICHE FOR ROCK
 PRACTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINES. BEING A
DANCE MAGAZINE IT
 KERRANG MAY NOT BE A
 MATCH WORTHWHILE
PUBLISHERS BUT AT
 Q LEAST THERE IS
 YOUR HORSE COMPANIES WHO
SPECIALIZE IN A
GENRE.

6. MAGAZINES BY
 CLASSIC ROCK FUTURE PUBLISHES SO MANY
 METAL HAMMER MAGAZINES IT HAD A MUSIC
MAGAZINE SECTION ON IT’S
 RHYTHM WEBSITE. (YAY). ALL OF IT’S
 COMPUTER MUSIC EDITIONS ARE AVAILABLE
DIGITALLY, MEANING THEY ARE
 FUTURE MUSIC ACCESSIBLE IN A DIGITAL AGE
 GUITARIST AND ARE AVAILABLE
INTERNATIONALLY. THEY MAINLY
 PROG
PRODUCE ROCK AND GUITAR
 TOTAL GUITAR MAGAZINES BUT THEY ALSO DO
COMPUTER MUSIC AND RHYTHM
(DRUM). THE DIGITAL ASPECT
DOES ATTRACT…

7. MAGAZINES BY
EMAP IS NOT A
 RETAIL WEEK COMPANY THAT
 RETAIL JEWELLER SPECIALISES IN MUSIC
MAGAZINES. IT OFFERS
 CONSTRUCTION NEWS
NO MUSIC MAGAZINES
 HSJ AND IT HAS NO REAL
 RAC SPECIAL GENRE. I THINK
THIS IS A PUBLISHER
 ARCHITECTUAL REVIEW THAT SHOULD BE
 NURSING TIMES AVOIDED.
 BROADCAST
 AJ

8. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DANCE
MAGAZINES?
 Mixmag – Development Hell (independent company that only publishes
Mixmag as a magazine)
 DJ Mag – Thrust LTD (again and independent company that only
publishes DJ Mag as a magazine)
 There are others but they only really exist in the form of Online and so
many are all independently published.
 Although on the surface this could seem an annoyance as there is
seemingly no publisher that specialises in dance magazines, I could
utilize this in my pitch to them, by talking about taking on another
dance magazine cheaply to form a dance music empire.