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From: rjr@mgweed.UUCP (Bob Roehrig)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: "73" will continue publication
Message-ID: <12837@mgweed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 09:49:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  9 09:49:02 1984
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"73 magazine" to continue publication


contrary to what you may have heard, "73 magazine" is alive and
well  and  its  financial  future is secure. it is a well known
fact, however, that amateur radio is not the direction that  cw
communications  (73's  new parent) is moving toward. when wayne
green,  w2nsd/1,  sold  out  his  publishing  empire   for   60
megabucks, it included "73 magazine" one of the pioneer amateur
radio publications.

cw communications did indeed try to  unload  "73  magazine"  it
even offered it back to wayne green but wayne has so many irons
in the fire now with his wayne green enterprises, that he  said
he  just  didn't  have  time  to get further involved. he still
writes his famous "never say die" monthly editorial.  right now
wayne  is on his way to asia to a computer show in japan with a
side trip to the caroline islands.

cw communications has  now  made  a  strong  commitment  to  73
magazine  and  we  are  told  that  we can look forward to some
exciting things from them.  the  publication  received  a  very
positive     letter     from     debra    weatherbee    a    cw
communications/peterborough vice president...

next  year  will  be  73  magazine's  25th  anniversary  and  i
understand  that  there  will be "some surprises." editor perry
donham, kk2y, would not  say  exactly  what.  "i'm  pledged  to
secrecy,"  he said. 73's publisher , jack burnet, is a non-ham,
although he has a solid background in publishing. perry is  the
same age as the publication.

two of peterough's magazines are ceasing pudlication,  however.
these are "pc jr world" and "microcomputing". cw communications
published 52 computer publications in 19  major  countries  and
is,  by  far, the world's largest publisher of computer related
information. only "73 magazine"  remains  ouside  the  computer
field.


                 (from gateway)