This is a task for my AS-Level Media Studies

1. Media
Studies
Task 2
Music
Magazine
Research
By Matthew Morris

2. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
About The Company
oBauer Media is a department
of the Bauer Media Group
which is Europe’s largest
privately owned publishing
group. The group is a
worldwide media empire
which offers over 300
magazines in 15 different
countries. Their media is also
available online, on TV and
radio stations worldwide.

3. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
Brief Company History
(With Examples)
oBauer Media Group first started
production as a printing house for
business cards on 2nd January 1875, and
since has been passed through 5
generations of the Bauer family, keeping
the business to date in the Bauer family
name. The multinational company now
has offices in 17 countries and has a
of over $2.2bn.
oDuring the war years 1941/42 the Bauer
family was forced to discontinue
publication due to paper shortages. In
1943 the publishing house was badly
damaged by air raids.
oIn 1987 Bella was Bauer’s first venture
publishing in the UK
oIn 1986 Q Magazine was first published.
oIn 1990 Bauer gained more attention with
the launch of Take a Break magazine.
oIn 1991 saw Bauer’s first venture into TV
listings with the launch of TV Quick
magazine.
oIn 2004 Kerrang magazine was launched
and became a radio station in 2005.

4. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
Bauer Media’s Publications
Bauer Media hosts over 300
publications some of the
publications that they host are
shown by the icons around the
edge of this page.

5. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
Detailed Look at
Publication
Kerrang is the best selling weekly rock
magazine worldwide. The magazine is
UK-based and devoted to rock music. It
was first published in June 1981 as a one-off
in a newspaper. Named after the
onomatopoeic word that derives from the
sound made when playing a power chord
on a distorted guitar. Kerrang! Was
initially devoted to the new wave of
British heavy metal and the rise of rock
acts. In the early 2000s it became the best
selling British music magazine. In terms of
gender the magazine is attractive to male
and female readers who are fans of rock
music.

6. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
Publication Target
Audience
Kerrang! Has a range of audiences
because there is a range of rock
genres which the magazine discuss in
their articles. Pop punk such as Bring
Me The Horizon and You Me at Six
will attract teenagers mostly because it
is music that can feature in the charts
but other rock music such as metal
including bands such as Motorhead
and Metallica this would mean that
the magazine could also appeal to
older fans because rock music has
evolved and changed so much over
the past few decades.

7. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
Detailed Look at
Publication
Heat is a British entertainment magazine
and as of 2004 it is one of the biggest
selling magazines in the UK, with a
circulation of over half a million. Heat was
launched in February of 1999 as a general
interest entertainment magazine at a cost of
4 million pounds. After a serious of
revamps the magazine became a less
serious, more gossip-oriented magazine
and circulation quickly grew. A series of
high-profile celebrity relationships, such as
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt proved
ample material for the magazine while
reality shows grew popular just at the right
time to help fill the pages.

8. Large
Magazine
Company:
Bauer
Media
Publication Target
Audience
With Heat’s mix of celebrity news,
gossip, beauty advice and fashion the
magazine is primarily aimed at
women although not as directly as
other women’s magazines. It also
features movie and music reviews, TV
listings and major celebrity interviews.
Therefore those interested in the film
and TV industry might be attracted
towards this publication meaning that
the magazine may have a minor
secondary target audience by
including such reviews and
interviews.

9. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
About The Company
oBBC Worldwide ltd is a subsidiary
of the BBC and was formed out of
a restructure of its predecessor
BBC enterprises in 1995. The
company promotes BBC brands,
sells the company abroad with the
aim of supplementing the income
received by the BBC through
British licence fees. Its
headquarters are in London and
2013/14 the company generated
profits of £157m and sales of
£1042m, £173m was returned to
the BBC.

10. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
Company History
oIn 1991 BBC World Service Television
became the first commercially funded
BBC broadcasting operation after the
foreign office refused to pay for it. BBC
Enterprises Ltd was subsequently
reorganised in 1995 as BBC
Ltd.
oIn 2004, BBC Video merged with VCI
form 2 Entertain, which was partly
owned by BBC Worldwide
oIn 2006 BBC Books was sold to
publisher Random House
oIn 2007 BBC Worldwide purchased a
75% stake in the travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet and acquired the last
25% in 2011
oIn 2009 it was announced that Ofcom
had recommended that Channel 4
merges with either commercial
network Five or BBC worldwide.
oAlso in 2009 the company was
awarded the Queen’s Award for
Enterprise.

11. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
Publications The Company Manage
oBBC America
oBBC World News
oBBC Indonesia
oBBC Entertainment
oBBC HD
oBBC Kids
oBBC Lifestyle
oBBC Knowledge
oCBBC
oCbeebies
oBritish UKTV Network

12. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
Detailed Look at Publication
Wherever You Are: The Military
wives is a book produced by BBC
Worldwide and published by BBC
Books and is about the choir of
wives who have husbands working
in the military. The choir is well
known in the UK after they achieved
UK Christmas Number 1 in 2011.
book contains the individual stories
in full for the first time straight
the wives themselves.

13. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
Publication’s Target Audience
The target audience for this
publication would be people who
have listened to the military wives
or people who enjoy their music.
These people were mostly women
who could sympathise or empathise
with the women in the choir
however this publication could be
interesting or attractive to men who
work in the military and want to see
how their loved ones may react if
they are out on tour in a foreign
country.

14. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
Detailed Look at Publication
BBC Music Magazine is a monthly
magazine and has released issues
ever since June 1992. The magazine
reflects the broadcast of BBC Radio
3 which is devoted primarily to
classical music. Each edition comes
with a free audio CD which often
includes BBC recordings of full-length
works. The magazine
features articles on subjects such as
the favourite conductor of
professional conductors.

15. Small
Magazine
Company:
BBC
Worldwide
Publication’s Target Audience
BBC Music Magazine is based on
the radio station BBC Radio 3, the
target audience and purpose of
Radio 3 is to offer a mix of music
and culture in order to entertain its
audience. This magazine would
appeal mainly to older people who
are interested in Jazz and classical
music, it doesn’t have a specific
gender role as so many people were
fans and supporters of this type of
music therefore they would read
this magazine and also listen to BBC
Radio 3.