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
Now what mag am i going to get that has short stack in it almost every month?
I always knew this day would come, but it is still sad. I remember the first issue I ever bought of TV Hits (in 1993). It always had the best movie, TV and music news – and I used to buy it every month without fail.
Over the years I have seen great stars come and go – Roxette, East 17, Melissa George, Jonathan Brandis (R.I.P.), Dean Cain, Brooke Satchwell, Pamela Anderson, Melissa Tkautz (just to name a few). I still have some older mags from the 90s lying about the place (keepsakes from my teenage years). Farewell TV Hits – thanks for making my teen years so enjoyable.
thats so sad – at least there is still poprepublic.tv to keep up on all the music and news! smash hits was a fab mag, so was tv hits, but over the last few years it really died… pity.
TV Hits was never particularly devoted to TV and had large music and movie focus from day one. As a teen mag, it was never in direct competition with TV Week (or TV Tonight for that matter).
I had the first issue, and probably every single one after that until 1995. It was one of my staple magazines- especially during my 90210 phase. Back in the day, it was the only place to read about Shannen Doherty’s temper tantrums on set. Lol.
Sad stuff indeed. I used to subscribe to TV Hits for years from about 12 to 17. My walls were covered in the posters, and I used to hide the mags in my folders at school so the teachers thought I was working *lol*. I remember all those articles about old school 90210, East 17 and Take That wars, Backstreet Boys. Memories. Really sad to think that when I have kids they won’t have TV Hits mags of their own!
I bought this religiously when i was pre-teen to teens. TV Hits and Smash Hits were my favourite. I have them all in a box somewhere in the house, dating back to 1998. The posters would always go up on the wall. *Sigh* So sad to see it go, even though its been some years since I’ve looked in one 🙁
HAH,
I use to get this mags almost every week/month when i was help-run a couple of sites based on Celebs sad to see it go.
So sad 🙁 Now where will the teens get all their posters from?
I forgot this even existed! I’ve never even seen it at the supermarket checkout or anything. All I remember of this magazine is that they used to give it away on Video Hits (back when it didn’t have a host).
Just pulled a copy out from December 1989. Johnny Depp from 21 Jump Street is on the cover. A giant Craig McLachlan/Madonna poster still stapled in the middle. TV Hits interview with Kylie answering her critics: “Up their bum, I say”. Gorgeous looking long haired Leaf Phoenix (now Joaquin) from the movie Parenthood, also.
Free booklet. Top Ten Hottest TV Shows in the World: 21 Jump, Neighbours, Home an Away, Full House, Country Practice, Wonder Years, Flying Doctors, E Street, Growing Pains, Countdown Revolution.
Oh the memories.
Oh, thats sad…..I used to get it too from 98 to 05, as well as Smash Hits and also Big Hit. Remember Big Hit, it actually ended up folding into TV Hits. Its sad to see it go…but honestly I already thought it had.
heh, used to have a subscription to this back in the 90s. Used to be quite a good mag, although it did start to cater more to the female readers IIRC.
I bought this religiously from 1988 through to the early 2000s. I still have my collection as well as my Smash Hits Collection (over 20 years’ worth). You’d be surprised how much copies of both magazines sell for on eBay…
Really sad to see the mag go as I have some friends there, but really you can’t have a bi-monthly entertainment magazine in the age of the internet. It’s becoming a weekly-or-bust industry.
This magazine was very marginalising towards its male readers! Always going on and on about how hot Jesse McCartney and Justin Bieber were, it made me feel insecure about my sexuality!!
Glad to see it collapse!!!
That’s sad news but not unexpected.
Its target audience now would go on the net and find their gossip, pictures, etc in an instant.
I think the days of magazines – as well as newspapers – are slowly beginning to be a thing of the past.
I remember buying TV Hits as well as Smash Hits all the time way back when.
TV Hits has had a fantastic run though – 22 years – certainly one that would be the envy of many teen orientated magazines.
That is so sad. Like Bruce, I also remembered buying this along with Smash Hits every month in 2003-2006, but unlike Bruce I buy them for pics and articles on my idol Delta Goodrem 🙂
i also remember buying this and smash hits in the late 80’s
I’m sorry, but I grew up buying this magazine but stopped at about age 14 because it already felt like I was being spoken down to. Plus it was getting so female skewed! I also remember being devastated when PosterPower ceased to exist, I’d spend a whole day coating my walls in posters from them!
Remember buying this when it first came out. Still have a copy or two in amongst the 1980s Smash Hits and MAD magazines.
Sad to see it go but it really has become irrelevant now that we have all these entertainment sites to access the latest TV news. How does it feel to have helped to kill off an institution, David?
Switzerland!
Hell I used to buy this every month for the hope there would be a Jennie Garth poster.
There usually was.
Yep I bought this religiously back in the day but grew out of it 😛
Sad to see an staple mag dissipate but in all fairness there is little need for these types of magazines these days; by the time you read what is in these magazines you have read it weeks prior online.
David you would know by being an online commentator that if you’re too slow to jump on a story it’s already been plastered over several other sites before you’ve had the chance to post your story.
I used to also buy Empire magazine but it was $7 a month I didn’t need to spend when I could get everything I wanted online.
Another of my childhood memories gone…
I remember buying this along with Smash Hits every month when I was a young teen 🙂