Magazine Publishers
Bauer Media • Bauer media brands include 4 Music, Absolute Radio, Angling Times, Bike, Bird Watching, Digital Photo, EMPIRE, FHM, Golf World, Kiss, Mojo, Q, Rail and Ride and many many more. As you can see Bauer has a huge monopoly on the radio and magazine industry specifically focusing on music, and hobbies such as automobiles and fishing and more. They own a huge chunk of the market but lack in a bigger name to help spread in but because they are big enough already its not always needed.
BBC Magazines • BBC magazines Is part of the BBC group. BBC magazine Brands include (Are mostly subscription based) Radio Times, BBC Good Food, BBC History ,BBC Top Gear, BBC Garden World, Lonely Planet Traveller, BBC Focus Subscriptions, Home & Subscription, Knit Today, Match Of The Day, BBC Music, Mountain Biking Today, Paper Craft Inspirations, BBC Wildlife, Pro Cycling, Simple Crochet, Simply Knitting, Urban Cyclist, Who Do You Think You Are? , BBC Easy Cook, History Revealed, BBC Country file, Easy Living Gluten Free as well as many BBC TV associated magazines such as Doctor Who magazine. BBC magazines has a strong monopoly as well on the magazine industry they more excel at the older hobbies and TV related releases as well; there strength is that they can feed of the tycoon of an industry that is the BBC to make them bigger.
Bauer Media Extended • Bauer Media Magazine’s seem to focus on three topics, Music/Film, Travel and Hobbies. With a few other features • The Music/Film industry is one of the two biggest selling magazine types, Bauer Media own the biggest film magazine ever “EMPIRE”, Empire often has all the exclusives on film stars and directors often getting the scoop before any other magazine; they are respected and have a huge reputation. The music magazines are spread out between all the producers but Bauer own some of the biggest music names such as Q, FHM, MOJO. The Travel and Hobbies magazines are the other biggest selling magazines and much like music are spread over several companies; most of which are owned by BBC magazine
BBC Magazines Extended • BBC Magazines seems to focus on these three topics, BBC Branded Products attached to there main company, Hobbies and TV. • Without a doubt the BBC are possibly the biggest entertainment industry in Britain; thus they need a smaller company to advertise there shows and products. The BBC branded products are to help keep there audiences with them because people like to buy the same products it also helps make more net profit, this is something that Bauer media would be lacking in. BBC magazines also sell Hobbies magazines much like other magazines but they are more related to the “Traditional” hobbies and less to do with “Modern” Hobbies such as photography that Bauer has a monopoly on. TV is without a doubt the biggest success of the BBC and this is a prime example of how the magazine industry can affect other “bigger” industrys on a major level.