TV HITS magazine to fold
After 22 years of celebrity stories, posters, gossip, and loving the box, Australia's TV HITS magazine is set to fold.
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After 22 years TV HITS magazine is set to fold.
TV Tonight understands the November / December edition will be the last.
In an interview to mark its 21st anniversary last year Editor Celeste Mitchell told this website, “It’s been around a long time and I’m sure it’s ingrained in the minds of a lot of Aussies. We’ve all had the posters on our walls at some stage.
“But it’s a much different environment now to 21 years ago. We’ve got a lot of different outside factors competing against magazines and entertainment mags in particular.
“We’ve got a core audience of 14-24 year old age group. But it ranges anywhere from 6 to 25+. We have about 25% male readers and the rest are female. So it’s really that teen demographic.”
In contrast to ACP Magazine’s TV Week, the magazine had also diversified from predominantly television to also include movies, music, games, fashion, beauty, tech and online.
“TV Week’s quite different to us I think,” she said. “We’re an all-round entertainment mag, so because we do a lot of focus on music and movies, TV is just one section.
The final edition will be out later this month.
An official announcement from Seven Media’s Pacific Magazines is expected soon.
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29 Responses
Three years down the track from when this amazing and my favourite magazine called it quits. This magazine had all the best and hottest music news and gossip. What I loved most about it was that they featured a new band each issue and was fan made with the requests of posters and band articles. My favourite thing about this magazine mostly was that they would always have a least one of my favourite bands in their magazine. A lot of the bands I like, I find it very rare to see in magazines, but TV HITS always seemed to put all them in because they were just that great. I’m stilling missing this magazine and haven’t found anything better since it ended. TV HITS will always be the best. I just hope one day they may bring it back for a generation.
So sad, this was the only mag i’d buy. It had rad posters.
i used to buy it since i was a kid for melissa tkautz and all the best music film tv. Best mag ever .