Sports Illustrated news today

[AustinTink]

Wow, this feels like a big deal. The magazine industry, more so than newspapers it seems, has been in trouble for some time but this is still pretty shocking.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/spo...rminates-staff-mass-layoff/story?id=106519272

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I couldn’t open that link but I looked at another.

The publisher of Sports Illustrated is laying off much of the storied magazine’s entire staff.

The news, first reported by Front Office Sports, came less than 24 hours after publisher The Arena Group announced “a significant reduction in its workforce,” comprising 100 employees. Arena said it continued to manage “substantial” debt and recently missed payments, and that the layoffs were part of “cost-cutting measures to initiate a transformative shift towards a streamlined business model.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bu...layoffs-staff-why-media-job-losses-rcna134760

 

[Lord Manhammer]

Hmmm, this is happening to legacy media all over the industry. My students ignore SI and gravitate towards Barstool Sports. So I'm not really surprised, but it's sad.

 

[hrhdhd]

My DH was a long-time subscriber to SI but canceled his subscription after they went to monthly (or maybe it was bimonthly? Edit: first it was bimonthly, then monthly) issues from weekly. The quality of the writing and the timeliness of the information just didn't match the magazine's level in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Sports Illustrated has funded itself with one issue of soft porn for ages. The magazine has long since ceased being a timely read of great articles.

 

[_19disnA]

Printed magazines in general seem to be going away. Not surprised and I think many publishers have just been avoiding the inevitable. Most are published monthly and with the same information updated daily on the internet which most people have access to at home, there really isn't much of a reason to buy/subscribe to printed magazines. Likely some publishers have already switched to an online version which eliminates the need to print/deliver paper copies.

 

[DodgerGirl]

Back in the day when you wanted to know the latest news on hockey tennis baseball football soccer basketball and even NASCAR racing there was two sports magazines that really were awesome for learning the latest sports news. One was The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated but during that time Sports Illustrated was THE sports magazine every sports fan would buy because back then they were fun to read and you got to learn about the latest news about sports stars such as Magic Johnson Joe Montana Wayne Gretsky Mary Lou Retton Nolan Ryan Dan Marino and other sports stars and just like teenage girls do with celebrity magazines when they learn about their favorite stars sports fans always hung posters of their favorite athletes from Sports Illustrated. But it wasn't until sports had magazines of their own that caused Sports Illustrated to decline like for basketball you had Slam and football had Blitz Magazine and in boxing you had The Ring Magazine hockey had Hockey Digest golf had Golf Magazine and racing had AutoWeek. And with these sports magazines being huge Sports Illustrated knew they would soon go broke in the years ahead. My uncle used to buy Sports Illustrated as a teenager because he wanted to learn the latest NFL stories and he still read it today and in fact my mom and I gave my uncle a Sports Illustrated subscription for Christmas and in the 90's when they gave free Christmas gifts to new subscribers and do you remember when they gave a free telephone shaped like a sneaker? We got two and we kept one and gave the other phone to my cousin and I thought they were funny. But once the internet became popular Sports Illustrated knew it was time to say bye bye and I think what they will do now is turn Sports Illustrated into a website where fans can post on forums have interactive areas where fans can send questions to their favorite sports stars and just read about the latest happenings in sports and it would work indeed. But if Sports Illustrated goes broke it will be remembered for sports fans as nostalgia

 

[RedAngie]

The Sporting News was more like a newspaper while Sports Illustrated was a glossy magazine. Neither covered hockey sufficiently so I used to subscribe to The Hockey News, a weekly newspaper. It was monthly from June to September. I’m guessing I subscribed from about 1973 to the mid 1980s.

Besides Hockey Digest, there were another half dozen monthly hockey magazines. Sometimes I would buy some at a regular newsstand, most mostly I would at a place that sold previous months’ issues at half price or lower with the covers partially removed. (Berlin, NJ Farmers Market).