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TV Guide Considers Rate Base Cuts

Published on July 22, 2005 | Email this article
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TV Guide, a magazine that has already reduced its rate base by nearly 3 million since 1998, is considering cutting it again, this time by as much as a third, according to the Wall Street Journal (via Folio). “The only reason to divulge its preliminary decision is because they might be looking for an advertiser reaction,” says Dan Capell, editor of Capell’s Circulation Report.

 

As TV Guide has faced increasing competition with US Weekly and People magazines, and become a bit less relevant thanks to the internet and TiVo, the magazine has been considering other changes, as well, including the possibility abandoning the familiar, pocket-sized format for a more standard size.

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