With all this talk of TEN media giving the axe to 19 different publications I took a look at my records and found I have subscriptions to Hot Rod Deluxe, Super Chevy, and Car Craft until March of 2021 and 2022. I may have missed it in all the different threads on the subject but when is the final month for all of these magazines?
Not sure if all 19 are ending at the same time but I got an email shortly after getting my Feb. 2020 issue of street rodder and making it sound like they are discontinued already and offering me a 6 months of a digital subscription. I was paid up til April of 2021. Watch your email from TEN. That will be them.
I should have mentioned I got my Feb. 2020 issue just a week and half ago or so, beginning of Dec. sometime and a few days later I got the email telling me street rodder was discontinued.
With the expansion of computer info, print media is going away. If you check the cl***ified section of major newspapers there is hardly anything in it anymore and advertising revenue is way down. Similar situation with focused magazines. Latest edition of Street Scene had less than a page of member cars and parts for sale. That said, I didn't renew my subscription to Street Rodder last Fall. Not because I feared they would stop publishing. Rather the cars they featured were overwhelmingly professionally built by some shop. Guys just bought a car and wrote checks to have it built. Not what interested me but then that's why I frequent HAMB. Most guys on here do their own wrenching.
My email didn’t say when they were stopping publishing the magazine. It was a strange email to say the least
I have not received a notice about the stopping of publishing. I wonder if my subscription will be stopped with out notice?
Hot Rod Deluxe, My fave hot rodding mag is going or gone, i have a sub to it and haven't received the latest jan 2020 issue but managed to buy it in a newsagents today, American Auto Mags in the UK is where i subscribe but the guy i know who runs it Graham Rennie says he won't be compensated for subscribers and dose not have the funds to compensate, what an outrageous predicament for subscribers and for Graham , as my sub is almost finished it doesn't worry me but not getting a refund but i feel sorry for graham as iv'e known him for many years. I understand the mag will be available online but not in print! I want printed magazines please and luckily i buy other rodding magazines as and when issues are available..It's so sad that many other hot rodding magazines are being dropped...
My magazine subscription came thru a website called Magazine Agent. I will call them Monday and see if it is true if "Publishing Media" who publishes StreetRodder is going out of business.
It’s true, trust me, I got an email from Ten Publishing saying there would only me Hot Rod, Four Wheeling, and Motor Trend would be the only magazines to continue. They said I could have my choice to finish my subscription in digital form only.
Hot Rod and Peterson Publishing has been through a lot in the last twenty years. Quoted from google searches; In 1996, Petersen sold his company Petersen Publishing Company to a private equity fund for $450 million which, in 1999, sold it for $2 billion to publisher EMAP. In 2001 it was sold to Primedia. In 2007 Primedia's enthusiast publications, including all the once-Petersen ***les, were again sold to Source Interlink, Source Interlink was rebranded TEN and at one time had over 60 publications. On August 3, 2017, Discovery Communications announced it would acquire a majority stake in TEN, and contribute its automotive-oriented cable network Velocity into the company. The venture's goals is to create a larger, multi-platform presence for the company's brands, with a particular emphasis on direct-to-consumer streaming products. On April 10, 2018, it was announced that the company had been renamed Motor Trend Group effective immediately, and that Velocity would rebrand as Motor Trend Network later in the year.
When I was into "little British cars" I had three magazines I bought religiously, and believe me, they were and are advertising heavy. Very few articles along the lines of the usual stateside mags, and large cl***ified sections. Different mindset. Their magazines are not failing.
The last issue for the ***les that have been killed will be that with an on-sale date in December. So, if it hasn't hit the newstands by tuesday, it ain't gonna.
I was a long time subscriber to Street Rodder, dropped it about 10 years ago because the content ****ed. About 6 months ago I picked up a copy at a news stand, I liked the cars they featured more like what they had when they started, so I subscribed again. I will miss Street Rodder.
My car was to be in the march issue of Hot Rod Deluxe this is really disappointing. I was told to look for the online issue of it. Just not the same to show someone an online article compared to a inhand magazine.
The Jalopy Journal
