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- July 24, 1989: News That You Can Choose
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 24, 1989 Fateful Voyage:The Exxon Valdez
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PRESS, Page 49
- News That You Can Choose
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- <p>Time Inc. announces plans to start Entertainment Weekly
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- <p> 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.
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- <p> 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."
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- <p> 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.
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