the future of 'Television' magazine

I'm told that the editor is on three months notice and that the future of
the magazine is uncertain. This is only a an unsubstantiated rumour.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
|| I'm told that the editor is on three months notice and that the
|| future of the magazine is uncertain. This is only a an
|| unsubstantiated rumour.
||

Let's face it Bill the servicing side of the domestic electronics trade (and
to a large extent even retail sales for small family run businesses) has now
'totally' dried-up .

I've seen so many old friends I've known for years in the trade finally have
to admit defeat and shut up shop.

In fact only this morning a colleague who's business was ticking over
reasonably well just a few months ago, telephoned me and said 'things have
been so quiet lately I'm only ringing you to find out if my phone is still
working!'


|| Bill

"Ivan" wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:
|| I'm told that the editor is on three months notice and that the
|| future of the magazine is uncertain. This is only a an
|| unsubstantiated rumour.
||

Let's face it Bill the servicing side of the domestic electronics trade
(and
to a large extent even retail sales for small family run businesses) has
now
'totally' dried-up .

I've seen so many old friends I've known for years in the trade finally
have
to admit defeat and shut up shop.

In fact only this morning a colleague who's business was ticking over
reasonably well just a few months ago, telephoned me and said 'things have
been so quiet lately I'm only ringing you to find out if my phone is still
working!'

That of course is the reason for Television's circulation decline. But it's
a shame if the new owners chose to let it die instead of broadening its
appeal.

Bill

I'm told that the editor is on three months notice and that the future of
the magazine is uncertain. This is only a an unsubstantiated rumour.

Bill
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I hope this is true, as long as the new mag continues that is! Admittedly
the new editor had a very difficult remit - to publish a magazine to a
diminishing trade, with the content costing next to nothing - but I can't
agree with the way that he went about it.

I have been reading the mag and have every copy since 1955 and worked for
many years with one of the major contributors (in the "test case" workshop)
and have even appeared on the cover. This kind of makes me an established
reader!

As soon as I heard of the way that the previous editor had been dismissed
and of his replacement I wrote a long email to the new editor, wishing him
well and offering my not inconsiderable experience of how the trade and his
tenure as editor might pan out. I also pointed out that the readership were
a tight community who wouldn't put up with being bullsh*tted.

I got a two sentence reply saying "I know what I am doing, and if you don't
like it, so long" Not exactly these words, but certainly these sentiments!

Now he had every right to disagree with me, but to suggest that I might like
to cancel my subscription was inexcusable and just shows his inexperience. I
really miss the special component offer adverts and when these went so did
my last reason for subscribing.

It doesn't matter anyway, even though my subscription has expired, they keep
sending me the mag to read!

--
Rob.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...

"Ivan" wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:
|| I'm told that the editor is on three months notice and that the
|| future of the magazine is uncertain. This is only a an
|| unsubstantiated rumour.
||

Let's face it Bill the servicing side of the domestic electronics trade
(and
to a large extent even retail sales for small family run businesses) has
now
'totally' dried-up .

I've seen so many old friends I've known for years in the trade finally
have
to admit defeat and shut up shop.

In fact only this morning a colleague who's business was ticking over
reasonably well just a few months ago, telephoned me and said 'things
have
been so quiet lately I'm only ringing you to find out if my phone is
still
working!'

That of course is the reason for Television's circulation decline. But
it's a shame if the new owners chose to let it die instead of broadening
its appeal.

Bill
I'm not in the trade but read the magazine. I had an article published a
couple of years ago and they wrote to me recently with a circular to say
they were cutting the rates they pay for submitted articles. I get the
feeling that the new owners have given the editor virtually zero budget. In
this month's editorial they admit that they are dropping the "What a life
column" simply because they can no longer afford to keep it.

They have been "broadening the appeal" for sometime now with other repair
articles, nostalgia sections, even a road test for a van last month!

I get the feeling the end is not far away.

Chris, G4VFK

In article , Chris wrote:
I'm not in the trade but read the magazine. I had an article published a
couple of years ago and they wrote to me recently with a circular to say
they were cutting the rates they pay for submitted articles.

That seems equivalent to cutting their own throats, as it will surely
reduce the incentive for anyone with any expertise worth reading about to
bother writing for them.

Undervaluing engineering expertise is a regrettable modern trend not just
confined to magazine publishers of course. If you can make more money
shuffling paper than learning how real things really work, then there is no
incentive for anyone even to *acquire* any expertise. Then how do you run
the broadcasting industry itself, never mind the magazines?

Rod.

In article , Rob wrote:
As soon as I heard of the way that the previous editor had been dismissed
and of his replacement I wrote a long email to the new editor, wishing him
well and offering my not inconsiderable experience of how the trade and his
tenure as editor might pan out. I also pointed out that the readership were
a tight community who wouldn't put up with being bullsh*tted.

I got a two sentence reply saying "I know what I am doing, and if you don't
like it, so long" Not exactly these words, but certainly these sentiments!

If they're in self-destruct mode. There's probably nothing anyone can do.

Rod.

Roderick Stewart wrote:

In article , Rob wrote:
As soon as I heard of the way that the previous editor had been dismissed
and of his replacement I wrote a long email to the new editor, wishing him
well and offering my not inconsiderable experience of how the trade and his
tenure as editor might pan out. I also pointed out that the readership were
a tight community who wouldn't put up with being bullsh*tted.

I got a two sentence reply saying "I know what I am doing, and if you don't
like it, so long" Not exactly these words, but certainly these sentiments!

If they're in self-destruct mode. There's probably nothing anyone can do.

Rod.

I just re-subscribed for 3 years !

Wonder if I can get a refund...

Colin.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:56:01 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

If you can make more money
shuffling paper than learning how real things really work, then there is no
incentive for anyone even to *acquire* any expertise. Then how do you run
the broadcasting industry itself, never mind the magazines?

But nobody needs to know anything these days, that's why. You just get 'em
off the streets, turn the handle and out comes a TV signal. It's all so
simple.

Colin wrote in
:

Roderick Stewart wrote:

In article , Rob
wrote:
As soon as I heard of the way that the previous editor had been
dismissed and of his replacement I wrote a long email to the new
editor, wishing him well and offering my not inconsiderable
experience of how the trade and his tenure as editor might pan out.
I also pointed out that the readership were a tight community who
wouldn't put up with being bullsh*tted.

I got a two sentence reply saying "I know what I am doing, and if
you don't like it, so long" Not exactly these words, but certainly
these sentiments!

If they're in self-destruct mode. There's probably nothing anyone can
do.

Rod.

I just re-subscribed for 3 years !

Wonder if I can get a refund...

Colin.


I was just thinking the same thing, I think I have a couple of years to
go. When "Classic CD" closed, they transferred my sub to "BBC Music
Magazine". What are the likely options for "Television"?


Alan S.