PETER Brant hasn't been on the scene at Interview in years, but yesterday he was back as the soon-to-be-100 percent owner of the magazine, introducing to the staff the company's new editorial directors, Glenn O'Brien and Fabien Baron.

His ex-wife Sandy Brant, who had operating control for two decades, and Ingrid Sischy, the editor-in-chief of Interview for 18 years, tendered their resignations the day before.

O'Brien had worked at Interview under founder Andy Warhol, and had become the editor-in-chief in 1971 when he was only 24.

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2. Radar Online
Entertainment Weekly Joins the Heathstakes
By Hailey Eber
January 24, 2008
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/01/entertainment-weekly-heath-ledger-people.php

Following in the pages of People magazine, Entertainment Weekly has also beat the rush to come out with a Heath Ledger cover this week. EW's "Special Tribute Issue" was already up on eBay this morning. A rep for EW said the magazine always closes on Tuesdays, and did so this week as well. The issue is expected to come out tomorrow. EW has yet to answer further questions on the tribute issue and how it might have ended up on the auction site this morning. Is seller "oldmagazineman" just an enterprising EW staffer, trying to make a little extra cash in the wake of tragedy?

3. WWD
Up, But Things Don’t Look Good
By Amy Wicks and Stephanie D. Smith
Jan. 25, 2008
http://wwd.com/memopad/article/121772?page=2

It's earnings season once again and Meredith Corp. led off by reporting a sizeable increase in publishing operating profit, at nearly 30 percent, to $45 million for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, as compared with the same period a year ago. Publishing revenues grew 5 percent to $309 million, with an 8 percent rise in ad revenues, led by More, which was up 30 percent. Overall for the company, net earnings were up 3 percent, to approximately $36 million. During an earnings conference call, company executives told analysts that third-quarter publishing and broadcasting ad revenues are running lower compared with the third quarter a year ago. Meredith's stock is still trading near its 52-week low. On Thursday it closed at $46.40.

Meredith also reported that circulation revenues declined, primarily because of the transition of Parents, Family Circle and Fitness magazines to its "direct-to-publisher model." During the quarter, revenues at Meredith Interactive Media rose more than 25 percent, from the redesigns of bhg.com and parents.com, in addition to the company's niche sites. Unique visitors averaged 10 million and page views averaged approximately 150 million a month. The average time spent on the sites per visitor increased 5 percent to 12 minutes.

Meanwhile, Meredith downplayed a New York Post report on Jan. 18 that Wal-Mart will dump three of the publisher's largest magazines from its stores. The paper reported that Wal-Mart purged 1,000 titles that are no longer in print (Celebrity Living, Child, Ellegirl) as well as magazines that are underperformers at the store, some of which target a more affluent audience than the average Wal-Mart shopper. During the conference call, Meredith Publishing Group president Jack Griffin said the New York Post report was "not accurate. If you go into Wal-Mart today, you'll find our magazines sold and we expect that to continue." Meredith recently struck a deal to sell home goods under the Better Homes brand in the stores beginning later this year. "We expect sales of Better Homes and Gardens magazine in fact to increase and the merchandising of it to be more pervasive around the store," added Griffin.

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