music magazine institutions research for AS media

1. Music Magazine Institutions Research
Company Who? Company History What publications do
they manage?
Target Audience
Bauer Media Europe’s largest privately
owned media group
-Started in 1953 with the
launch of Angling Times and
the acquisition in 1956
-1990 Kiss FM launched
-1994 bought small
magazine called ‘For Him’
-1996 acquired digital TV
music channel ‘the box’
-2002 Closer was launched
-2005 Britain’s first weekly
glossy GRAZIA was
launched
-Jan 2008: joined Bauer
Media Group
-TV
-Radio
-Magazines
Examples include:
o 4 music
o Absolute radio
o Classic car weekly
o Heat
o Q
- All age groups, different
publications for each

2. BBC World Wide -Main commercial arm and
owned subsidiary by BBC.
Vision is to build BBCs
brands, audiences,
commercial returns and
reputations across the
world.
- Monetizes BBC brands and
trades BBC and other
British programmers for
publications abroad
-formed out of BBC
Eneterprises in 1995
-In 2011/12 had profit rate
of 11.2%
-2012/13 had a profit of
£156.3m
-2013/14 made £157.4m in
profit
-2013- company was
geographical instead of
divisional
-has markets in 7
geographical places (N.
America, UK, Australia, New
Zealand, Asia, CEMA, Latin
America & Western Europe)
-Magazines
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