In TV Week this week, they have an 8 page promotion for a new magazine.
“It’s Your Day” is a new monthly which is a spin-off from Woman’s Day. In the same way they have had TV Week Close Up, which seems to be released on and off now.
Another magazine answering a question that nobody has asked
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David Marr getting the scoops.
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It will be launched this Thursday (June 13), the same day as Who in most states.
According to The Australian, Bauer could close the Australian editions of Elle and Harper’s Bazaar amid declining revenue in a tough advertising market, however Sarah-Belle Murphy, Bauer’s executive general manager of publishing and digital, has denied the rumours.
My understanding was that Bauer had finally stabilised the local magazines business?
UK-born Paul Merrill, who is editor-in-chief of 14 Bauer magazines in Australia and NZ including Take 5 and Empire, is leaving the company this Friday, October 4.
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Seven West Media (SWM) has agreed to sell its magazine business, Pacific Magazines, to Bauer Media for a cash consideration of $40m, plus $6.6m of advertising for SWM with Bauer.
Will put New Idea and TV Week back under the same ownership again, since TV Week got sold off to ACP (Bauer) in 2002. Having New Idea and Woman’s Day under the same roof might be interesting 
Can see Bauer shuttering or merging half of the PacMags mastheads within 12 months.
Bauer will close People and Picture magazines at the end of this year, after BP and 7-Eleven pulled the magazines off the shelves at their service stations.
Guess the over 55 crowd will have to finally learn how to use their smartphones for softcore porn.
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I thought these magazines closed years ago
They were owned by Fairfax for many years before being bought along with Woman’s Day and other titles by Packer’s ACP during Warwick Fairfax Jnr’s disastrous ownership, iirc. They were originally rather tame but slowly went into the gutter.
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Bauer Media Group is in talks with Mercury Capital, a Sydney private equity firm, to sell its Australian and New Zealand operations for $150 million. That is a substantial discount on the $525 million that Bauer paid to buy the business from Nine in 2012.
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If Bauer could not make it work then what was once ACP is doomed even wore now that it will have Pacific side by side.
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What makes this private equity company better than Bauer to give it a good shake? If a global publisher like Bauer can’t make it work…
Bauer claims its first scalp
The merger of women’s magazine icons Woman’s Day and New Idea was bound to end in tears.
With Packer and Sons on the Belvoir stage, one can only imagine what former Woman’s Day owner ACP boss Kerry Packer would have made of the deal with another Kerry: Kerry Stokes , the Seven West boss who sold New Idea 's parent company Pacific Magazines to Bauer Media for $40 million.
The pistols-at-dawn-style battle for editorial control has ended this week with Bauer Media, which acquired Packer’s ACP Magazines for $500 million in 2012, asking New Idea 's editor-in-chief Emma Nolan to step aside. This left Woman’s Day editor Fiona Connolly in charge of the magazine’s once-great royal-watching rivals. Questions remain over the role of Louisa Hatfield , the former Pacific Magazine’s publishing director, and several other senior editorial people.
Private Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald