NME

The new musical express (NME) is a popular magazine that has been published since 1952. It started as a music newspaper and gradually moved towards a music magazine format in the 1980s. During the 1960s the magazine ( paper magazine at the time) championed the new British groups at the time. In early 1970s the paper nearly saw closure by its owners IPC (who had brought the paper from kinn in 1963). Later on from the issue of 1998 onwards the paper was no longer printed on news print and now more recently it has moved to tabloid size, and is more like a full colour cover with lots of glossy colours surrounding it. Since its time being published in 1952 the NME is till being published successfully today.

IPC Media
In the mid-1950s the magazine publishing industry in Britain was expanded by a handful of companies, mainly the Associated Press Ltd (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890),, George Newnes Publishers, C Arthur Pearson, and the Hulton Press. 1958 Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of a newspaper group which included the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial (now the Sunday Mirror) together with provincial chain West of England Newspapers, made an offer for Associated Press. The offer was accepted, and in January 1959 he was appointed its chairman. Within a few months he changed its name to Fleetway Publications Ltd after the name of its headquarters, Fleetway House in London's Farringdon Street. Here are some of the papers and magazines ipc own PC Newspapers (including The People and The Daily Herald from Odhams, as well as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial). IPC Magazines, publishing the consumer magazines and comics. IPC Trade and Technical, publishing the specialist magazines (later known as IPC Business Press Ltd). IPC Books, handling all book publishing (headed by Paul Hamlyn, whose own company had been acquired by IPC). IPC Printing, handling all non-newspaper printing operations (headed by Arnold Quick, whose own company had also been acquired by IPC). IPC New Products, a launching pad for products which used new technology (headed by Alistair McIntosh).

Bauer media
Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by four generations of the Bauer family. Bauer was originally a small printing house, The Bauer Publishing Group has grown into a worldwide publishing and media company. Bauer started in the UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987 and as H Bauer Publishing became Britain's third largest publisher. Bauer media group also own has a 50% in the British television company the other 50% belongs to channel 4. Bauer also acts as a happy supplement to produce several other music channels such as Q TV 4 music kiss TV Kerrang TV

Bauer's offices are divided all other the world from the likes of Russia to Nigeria. The Bauer Publishing Group comprises 282 magazines worldwide in 15 countries, as well as TV and radio stations. Bauer was founded in 1875 and is a publishing and broadcasting industry, Bauers main headquarters are in Hamburg, Germany.

Bright sky colour also showing bright and positive outlook

Name of magazine in big bright bold letters

Front cover of NME

Others stories spread out and fonted in different colours, not to confuse readers with the main headline

Bright colour used to dominate the page again used to catch viewers attention

Big image used to show specific topic on music band Name of music band in bold letters that clash against the rest of the font enabling them to be eye-catching.

Other stories highlighted in other colour around the page to attract all types of audiences

Front cover of Kerrang

All of the font on the page is bold and in capitals.
The name of the magazine is in capitals. Highlighting the brand name. Subheadings used in different colours to show identity of which story they belong to.

Bright and fruity colours used to illustrate positive attitude of the page

White background used to make other font colours stand out.

Names of celebrities colour coded in different colours, to show difference in names.

A dominant picture of a specific role model of subject is in the middle of the page.

Different little stories boxed around the page.

Same colour used for all fonts which are headings.

Content of Kerrang
The word (contents) highlighted in bold letters to show the identity of the page Clashing colour used to highlight font and show subheadings Other storys circling dominant story/ picture, in their own little boxes to stop confusion of a link Sub heading used to attract specific audiences, e.g. some readers might only want to read the (GIGS) section.

Image dominating page highlighting specific information on a celebrity Promoting other magazines, by putting picture of the magazine on the top corner of contents