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Media
R&R closes down
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 4 June 2009
Talking of magazines going to the wall, it seems that the US music industry trade mag that tracks and reports on US music radio – R&R, or Radio & Records – has ceased publishing. Originally launched in 1973, R&R became a sister magazine to the US industry’s primary trade mag Billboard in 2006, when it was acquired by Billboard publishers VNU (now Neilsen Business Media) and merged with their existing competing title Billboard Radio Monitor.
Reports that the magazine and its accompanying online services would close, and its 40 strong staff be made redundant, first circulated earlier this week, and yesterday the R&R website went offline, with a message reading: “We’d like to thank you for supporting R&R, and hope that you will continue to follow the brand through Billboard”. Readers are then forwarded to the Billboard website. It’s not yet clear if Billboard will now incorporate aspects of R&R, in print or online.
