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Topless Christina Milian & The Dream Covers Final Vibe Issue
Necole Bitchie.com —
... Vibe’s closure leaves just one large-circulation magazine, The Source, focusing on hip-hop and R&B. The Source has had its own troubles, going through a bankruptcy and emerging under new ownership last year. A rock-focused magazine, Blender, folded last year. Read More ...
Vibe magazine to close
News Briefs —
... Urban music magazine Vibe is folding, according to the New York Times website . The latest victim of the media recession was founded by Quincy Jones in 1992 just as hip hop was exploding in popularity and crossing over to mainstream American audiences.
Vibe Folding… But is this the final cover?
Pop Culture Fix | Your Daily Dose —
... Vibe’s closure leaves just one large-circulation magazine, The Source, focusing on hip-hop and R&B. The Source has had its own troubles, going through a bankruptcy and emerging under new ownership last year. A rock-focused magazine, Blender, folded last year. [SOURCE] ...
RIP Vibe Magazine: Vibe Magazine Closes Its Doors
Celebrity VIP Lounge —
... In a memo to the staff announcing the closure, Steve Aaron, CEO of Vibe Media Group, said that “The print advertising collapse hit Vibe hard, especially as key ad categories like automotive and fashion, which represented the bulk of our top 10 advertisers, have stopped advertising or gone out of business.” ...
Folding magazines: Vibe
No Rock And Roll Fun —
It's been struggling for a while, but now the struggle is at an end: Vibe magazine is closing with immediate effect: In a memo to staff members announcing the closure, Steve Aaron, chief of the Vibe Media Group, wrote that for months, the company tried in vain to either find new investors or “to restructure the huge debt on our small company.” “The print advertising collapse hit Vibe hard, especially as key ad categories like automotive and fashion, which represented the bulk of our top 10 advertisers, have stopped advertising or gone out of business,” he ...
BYE, BYE, VIBE…
Stuff Fly People Like —
... out of business,” he wrote.
The musician Quincy Jones and the company then called Time Warner created Vibe in 1992. The Wicks Group, a private equity firm, bought it in 2006. Vibe reported circulation of 818,000 in the second half of last year, a healthy figure, but like most magazines it suffered from falling advertising. It announced in February that in July, it would cut its rate base – the circulation promised to advertisers – from 800,000 to 600,000.
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Music: Newswire: Vibe magazine closes down
A.V. Club —
... . Founded in 1992 by Quincy Jones, Vibe quickly became a widely read a respected voice covering hip-hop and R&B; music. According to the New York Times Media Decoder blog it continued to enjoy a healthy circulation to the end. The trouble: Advertising, or a lack of it. The magazine will cease operations immediately. ...
Vibe Magazine Folds, Immediately
WENDYISTA —
... high, that we leave the building today. We were assigning and editing a Michael Jackson tribute issue when we got the news. It’s a tragic week in overall, but as the doors of VIBE Media Group close, on the eve of the magazine’s sixteenth anniversary, it’s a sad day for music, for hip hop in particular, and for the millions of readers and users who have loved and who continue to love the VIBE brand. We thank you, we have served you with joy, pride and excellence, and we will miss you. source
NYT // Vibe Magazine To Close Down Immediately
Rollo & Grady —
[VIA - NYT - Richard Perez-Pena]
Vibe, one of the nation’s leading popular music magazines, is closing immediately, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Word was broken early this afternoon by the Web site dailyfinance.com and spread to other music and media news sites. The spokeswoman, Tracy Nguyen, said the Vibe staff would be formally notified in a meeting at 2 p.m. She said she did not know how many people would be laid off as a result of the closure.
The closure of Vibe leaves just two large-circulation music magazines, XXL and The Source, ...
RIP Vibe Magazine: Vibe Magazine Closes Its Doors
Top Celebrity Headlines —
... result of the closure. In a memo to the staff announcing the closure, Steve Aaron, CEO of Vibe Media Group, said that “The print advertising collapse hit Vibe hard, especially as key ad categories like automotive and fashion, which represented the bulk of our top 10 advertisers, have stopped advertising or gone out of business.” Click ...
Free Maxwell Concert In NYC
Honey Soul Music —
[image] Oh, you lucky New Yorkers. There’s a free Maxwell concert in New York City on Wednesday, July 8th for the CBS Early Show. It takes place at The Early Show Studio Plaza on 5th avenue, at the corner of 59th street. It’s free, so arrive early. Maxwell will start at 12:00pm EST but they ask you to get there around 10:30am. Be there or be square. The free concert is just a day after the release of Maxwell’s first in the trilogy album BLACKsummers’night . I’m sure die-hard Maxwell fans will have it memorized enough by then to sing along at the concert. This is off topic but I wanted to mention this in case you haven’t heard by now. Vibe Magazine has ...
‘Vibe’ Shuts Down
Pollstar —
“Vibe” magazine announced it was shutting down operations yesterday, 16 years after Quincy Jones founded the urban music publication. DailyFinance.com first reported the news and the New York Times later confirmed that Vibe spokeswoman Tracy Nguyen said the magazine was “closing immediately.” Nguyen told the NYT she didn’t know how many ...
