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PRESS, Page 49News That You Can Choose
Time Inc. announces plans to start Entertainment Weekly
Not long ago, the answer to the question "What should we do
tonight?" seemed fairly limited for most Americans. There was
always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie
house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment
industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and
compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So
limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from
information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the
riches available.
Last week the Time Inc. Magazine Co. announced the launch
of a new publication aimed at dispelling that confusion. Called
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, it will cast an informative cultural net
over the most notable new offerings in the realms of movies,
television, videocassettes, recorded music and books, all
reviewed and rated (from A to F) by the magazine's own critics
as well as by guest reviewers. The new publication will also
include articles on entertainment and culture, but it will
concentrate on the fundamentals rather than on personalities,
thus avoiding conflicts with the company's highly successful
PEOPLE magazine. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, says Editor in Chief
Jason McManus, "deals with products, not personalities."
According to Jeff Jarvis, the new magazine's managing editor and
a former PEOPLE television critic, "It will be brash and
browsable. It will be as entertaining as the entertainment it
covers."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, which will make its debut in
February, has been two years in the planning. It is expected to
start life with a circulation of 500,000, mostly subscribers,
and hopes to grow to 1 million before turning a profit in four
years. Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith estimates the cost of
the launch at $30 million after taxes. The magazine is the
company's first major start-up venture since TV-CABLE WEEK, a
listings guide for cable-company subscribers, folded after just
five months in 1983. Another Time Inc. magazine project, PICTURE
WEEK, was tested in 1985-86 but never launched.