Sports magazine

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Julio Cozzi on the cover of the Argentine sports magazine El Gráfico (1944)

A sports magazine , alternatively also called sports magazine , is a printed product that almost exclusively focuses on reporting on one or more sports . It publishes detailed reports on planned or past sporting events, supplemented by overviews and tables on national and international leagues and competitions. The frequency of appearance varies and can range from two or three times a week to three months or longer. The term sports newspaper has established itself for daily periodicals .

The sports magazine, a popular magazine , a trade journal , an association magazine or a customer magazine to be.

Conception

The common goal of the printing works is to provide the reader with updated, insider or expert knowledge that the sports sections of the general daily or weekly newspapers rarely offer in this breadth and depth. The sports journalists endeavor to let their customers participate in the drama of sporting activities through gripping reports, even if some readers already have knowledge of the results from sports broadcasts on television. Comments, analyzes and well-founded preliminary and background reports should provide those interested in sports with information that they are not yet familiar with. Interviews with athletes, coaches or other professionals and reports on the privacy of sports greats complement the other articles.

The major and mostly professionally operated sports such as football - which dominates -, motor sports , cycling , boxing , ski competitions and athletics form the framework of the reporting. Smaller sports tend to have less space in the columns, which can change especially if local athletes could get on the podium or had unexpectedly outstanding success. This also applies to amateur sports , which often only become of interest to national sports magazines in the case of international competitions or the Olympic Games . The editors try in all its articles, to arouse the reader for the sports events enthusiasm to create tension and consumers to make cheer.

Sports magazines are something between daily newspapers and magazines . They contain a high proportion of images with photographically highlighted images and are partly printed on glossy paper. Special issues deal with a main topic, for example the start of footballers in the new Bundesliga season. In the magazines, background reports and articles related to sports stars predominate, and the artistic quality of a photograph is given more consideration in the image material .

In addition to the nationwide copies of the sports press, there are also regional or local sports magazines that appear as stadium newspapers , club magazines or association organs and are included in the broader sense.

In contrast to the sports magazine, the sports newspaper is equivalent to a daily newspaper that is solely dedicated to the world of sports. There are countries in which sports newspapers have, or have historically had, a higher circulation than the politically oriented daily press.

history

Beginnings

The first sports magazine, The Sporting Magazine , appeared in England in 1792 and dealt primarily with equestrian sports and hunting . From 1823 onwards, the daily Sporting Life came out. Citizens in the United States were first able to find concentrated sports news in 1829 at The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, which was run by John Stuart Skinner in Baltimore . In Germany the initiated gymnastics movement was the motor for the distribution of sports newspapers. On July 13, 1842, the Allgemeine Turn-Zeitung opened the round in Erlangen, followed by Der Turner in Dresden in 1846 and the Deutsche Turnzeitung in Leipzig in 1856 . In 1885 the August Scherls publishing house printed the magazine Sport im Bild on a weekly basis . France had Le Sport as an information medium from 1854 , Austria-Hungary from 1878 the Allgemeine Sportzeitung .

Germany since 1918

During the First World War , some (not all) sports magazines in the German Reich were discontinued due to a lack of sporting events, but then expanded again in the 1920s. The "kicker", today under the title kicker sports magazine in the trade, was launched on July 14, 1920. Restrictions on the freedom of the press in the Third Reich caused the number of sports magazines to shrink, and from October 1944 they no longer appeared. With the re-admission of the Germans, who were initially excluded from international sports traffic as perpetrators of the war, the public's interest in sports topics was awakened again in the 1950s and publishers dared to edit sports magazines.

In the 1990s, consumer sports magazines in Germany experienced a decline in circulation with the increased number of football broadcasts on public and private television. Extensive coverage of football is extremely important to the economic success of a general sports magazine. Television is now the strongest competitor for the print media specializing in sports. 95 percent of their buyers and subscribers are men.

Austria

In Austria, the sports week , which was founded on February 8, 1999, has achieved a monopoly position as a weekly sports magazine.

A selection of major sports magazines and newspapers

The following overview usually names general-interest magazines with a circulation of at least 100,000 copies and does not claim to be complete. So-called “special interest magazines” such as association magazines, trade journals or papers related to a single sport are not taken into account. Exceptions are explained in the "Comments".

Sports magazines and newspapers
title appearance
year		 Country Edition in pieces was standing Remarks
Sports picture 1988 Germany 373.915 2nd quarter 2015 Largest German sports magazine
Sport BZ 2006 Germany 50,000 3rd quarter 2006 First sports newspaper in Germany; Hired again in late 2006
Kicker sports magazine
(Monday edition) 		1920 Germany 166,667 2nd quarter 2015 Oldest German sports magazine
Bravo sport 1994 Germany 91.902 2nd quarter 2015 Young target group
Tokyo Sports 1958 Japan 2,230,000 2008 World's largest sports newspaper
La Gazzetta dello Sport 1896 Italy 375,000 2008 World's oldest sports newspaper
L'Équipe 1946 France 346,000 2008 Sports newspaper
Pas Fotomaç ... Turkey 278.171 July 2009 Largest sports newspaper in the country
Marca 1938 Spain 237,807 April 2009 Largest sports newspaper in the country
A bola 1945 Portugal 150,000 ... Biggest circulation newspaper in the country
El Grafico 1919 Argentina 26,565 ... 690,998 copies at the 1986 World Cup,
595,924 copies in 1978
Esto 1941 Mexico 250,000 ... Sports newspaper
France Football 1947 France 213,000 2004 Now football magazine
Olé 1996 Argentina ... ... First sports newspaper in the country
Sports Illustrated 1954 United States 3,000,000 2008 is often seen as a role model
Sports week 1999 Austria 31,883 2008 Largest sports magazine in the country, discontinued in 2015
Sports courier Mannheim 2004 Germany 35,238 2014 Sports magazine in the Rhine-Neckar region and in Kraichgau

Sources: IVW sales figures at www.pz-online.de; www.sportmagazine-online.de; "Marca", "El Grafico" and "Esto" according to Spanish Wikipedia; German Wikipedia.

literature

  • Michael Kleinjohann: Sports magazines in the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1987. ISBN 3-8204-9740-4
  • Andreas Hungerbühler: The German-speaking Swiss sports newspaper - reasons for its non-existence . VDM Verlag 2008. ISBN 3-639-04140-2
  • Frank Weber: Stadium magazines of the Bundesliga. Structures-functions-perspectives . Münster 1996. ISBN 3-8258-3476-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Weber: Die Stadionzeitschriften der Fußball-Bundesliga , p. 45. ISBN 3-8258-3476-X , accessed on August 17, 2009
  2. ↑ The place Blandair via John Stuart Skinner, see footnote 7 , queried on August 17, 2009
  3. ^ Artium Ruwen Möller: Footballers as medial heroes , pp. 35–37. ISBN 978-3-638-73018-1 , accessed on August 17, 2009
  4. ↑ Section sports press in: Georg Seeßlen , Bernt Kling: Das große Unterhaltungslexikon , pp. 241–243. ISBN 3-8112-0304-5
  5. ^ Artium Ruwen Möller: Footballers as medial heroes , pp. 35–37. ISBN 978-3-638-73018-1 , accessed on August 17, 2009
  6. ↑ Michael Schaffrath: Sport is communication , pp. 260–262. ISBN 978-3-8258-1877-7 , accessed on August 17, 2009
  7. ↑ Kristin Scherzer: Media Effects of Sport Identification Figures , p. 32. ISBN 978-3-640-13015-3 , requested on August 17, 2009

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