The document discusses Kerrang!, a rock music magazine first published in 1981 that focuses on genres like punk, emo, and metalcore. It was originally owned by two companies but was sold to Bauer Media Group in 2008. Bauer Media Group is described as a suitable publisher for a new rock magazine due to their experience publishing over 570 magazines to a wide audience in 26 countries.

1. Task 4b
Anna Kelcey

2. Kerrang!
✤ I have decided that the magazine I will be producing will focus on the
genre rock. Kerrang! also focuses on this genre, so I will take a lot of
inspiration from this magazine, along with other magazines of the rock
genre.
✤ Kerrang! was first published on the 6th of June 1981, and in 1987 it
began to be published weekly.
✤ Kerrang! has featured content covering a lot of sub-genres of rock,
such as ‘punk pop’, ‘emo’ and ‘metalcore’.
✤ It was originally owned by both United Newspapers and EMAP, but
was sold to Bauer Media Group in 2008.

3. Bauer Media Group
✤ Bauer first came to the UK in 1987 with the magazine Bella. This was a lifestyle
magazine targeted towards women.
✤ 1990, Bauer began to publish Take a Break, also aimed towards women, and this
magazine became market leader, which gained a lot more publicity for Bauer.
✤ Bauer bought Kerrang! in 2008, and has published it weekly since then.
✤ I think that Bauer would be a suitable publisher for the magazine that I will produce as
it has published over 570 magazines, and has a very wide reading audience, rather
than a small niche audience that my magazine would have to target specifically.
✤ They would also be a good publisher for my magazine as they publish magazines in
26 different countries, and are very well known due to the popular magazines that
they publish, and so it would be more likely that my magazine would be published.