Friday, 11 November 2011

Research on Media Institutions

Bauer Media-
Bauer Media Group is a multinational media  company headquartered in Hamburg,Germany which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV and usually shortened to H. Bauer.

Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, 
Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week
Produces magazines such as - Kerrang!, Q, MOJO (all rock magazines)

Bauer media group has 50% stake in the british television company Box Television,the other half owned by Channel 4. Box Television acts as the content subsidiary that produces several popular music TV channels which include: Q TV, 4Music, Kiss TV, Kerrang! TV, The Box, Magic TV and lastly Smash Hits TV. Bauer Media also own radio stations.
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IPC Media-
IPC Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation), a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the UK, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

  • IPC Newspapers — including The People and The Sun (soon sold), as well as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial
  • IPC Magazines — owns TV easy, Women easy, Boat Owner
  • IPC Trade and Technical — specialist magazines (later known as IPC Business Press Ltd.)
  • IPC Books — all book publishing (headed by Paul Hamlyn, whose own company had been acquired by IPC).
  • IPC Printing — all non-newspaper printing operations (headed by Arnold Quick, whose own company had also been acquired by IPC).
  • IPC New Products 


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