2. Bauer media group..
Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company
headquartered in Hamburg, Germany
It operates in 16 countries worldwide.
Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been
privately owned and under management by the Bauer
family.
It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG,
abbreviated to HBV and usually shortened to H. Bauer.
Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine
titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week
3. Bauer Box Television
Bauer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television
company Box Television, the other half owned by Channel 4.
Box Television acts as the content subsidiary that produces
several popular music television channels, which include:
• 4Music
• The Box
• Heat
• Kerrang!
• Kiss
• Magic
• Smash Hits
4. TV Listings
1991 saw H Bauer's first foray into TV listings publishing with the
launch of TVQuick magazine. TVQuick ceased publication in July
2010.
In 1999 H Bauer launched TVChoice at a much lower price point
than other titles on the market.
TVChoice overtook its main competitor in the February 2008
audited ABCs and has been the number one weekly newsstand
magazine in the UK ever since.
In September 2003, H Bauer launched Total TVGuide to cover the
increasing number of programmes available on Freeview and
satellite or cable services.
5. Bauer Media brands
Q started out as a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Originally it was to
be called Cue (named after the act of cueing a record to play), but the name was changed so
that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth
felt the music press of the time ignored a generation of older music buyers who were buying
CDs — then still a new technology — from artists such as Paul Simon, Level 42, and Dire Straits.
Modelled after Rolling Stone, Q was first published in 1986, setting itself apart from much of the
other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and
printing, with an emphasis on style.
The Q music brand has expanded to Radio and Television, with Q Radio and Q TV being music
entertainment that specialises in indie, rock and alternative. Q also holds annual music awards
in the UK, known as Q Awards. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards have become one of
Britain's biggest and best publicized music awards, helped in no small part by the often
boisterous behaviour of the celebrities who attend the event.
6. Bauer Media Brands
Kerrang! is a brand that specialises in Rock Music. It
originally began as a magazine and in 2004 Kerrang Radio
was launched. A Kerrang TV channel also exists and as of
2005, all of its programme content is music videos, the
majority of which is open scheduled, for text requests from
their playlist
