Tiger Beat Explained

Frequency:Monthly
Category:Teen, celebrity
Company:Tiger Beat Media, Inc.
Lastdate:2019 Winter
Country:United States
Based:California
Language:English
Issn:0040-7380

Tiger Beat was an American teen fan magazine published by The Laufer Company and marketed primarily to adolescent girls. The magazine had a paper edition that was sold at stores until December 2018, and afterward was published exclusively online until 2021.

History and profile

Tiger Beat was founded in September 1965[1] [2] by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host Lloyd Thaxton.[3] The magazine featured teen idol gossip and carried articles on movies, music and fashion.[4] Charles Laufer described the magazine's content as "guys in their 20s singing 'La La' songs to 13-year-old girls."[5]

A distinctive element of Tiger Beat was its covers, which featured cut-and-paste collaged photos – primarily head shots – of current teen idols. For the first twelve issues, Thaxton's face appeared at the top corner of the cover (at first the magazine was titled Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat), and he also contributed a column.[6] After 2016, the magazine cover featured a single image of a celebrity.[7]

During the 1960s, The Laufer Company leveraged the teen market dominated by Tiger Beat with similar magazines, including FaVE and Monkee Spectacular.[8] In 1998, Tiger Beat was sold by publisher Sterling/MacFadden to Primedia, which in 2003 sold the magazine to Scott Laufer, the son of magazine founder Charles Laufer.[9] Until 2014, Laufer also produced the similar teen magazine Bop.[10] [11] After 2015, Tiger Beat was published by Los Angeles–based Tiger Beat Media, Inc.[12] [13]

In popular culture

Jude Doyle founded the blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to Tiger Beat) in 2008. It concluded in 2013.[14] [15] [16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Alex French. The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines. August 10, 2015. Mental Floss.
  2. Web site: Tweens, Teens, and Magazines. Kaiser Family Foundation. 19 August 2015. January 2013. 8 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208234750/https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/tweens-teens-and-magazines-fact-sheet.pdf. dead.
  3. Web site: Lloyd Thaxton. IMDb.com, Inc.. 2017-04-06.
  4. Web site: Billboard. May 5, 1973. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
  5. Web site: From Dylan to Bieber: A 'Tiger Beat' Cover Odyssey. Flavorpill Media. 2017-04-07.
  6. News: Zany host of popular television dance show. Los Angeles Times. 2008-10-08. 2017-04-06.
  7. How Teen Mag Tiger Beat Is Evolving to Target Celeb-Obsessed Gen Z-ers. AdWeek. 2016-03-15. 2018-07-15.
  8. Web site: Keeping Up With Your Favs – The Rise of Tiger Beat and The Laufer Company Magazines. Loti.com. 2017-04-07.
  9. Web site: Names Change, but Hearts Beat the Same. July 21, 1998. Los Angeles Times.
  10. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/technology/28iht-tween.1.5893663.html The New York Times
  11. Web site: A farewell to Bop. Gizmodo Media Group. 2014-07-24. 2017-04-06.
  12. Web site: Tiger Beat Media, Inc.. Bloomberg L.P.. 2017-04-07.
  13. News: 0362-4331. Ember. Sydney. Tiger Beat Magazine Is Revived With a New Vision. The New York Times. 2018-11-16. 2017-12-21.
  14. Book: Mukhopadhyay. Samhita. Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America. Harding. Kate. 2017. 978-1250155511. Samhita Mukhopadhyay. Kate Harding.
  15. News: Tillet. Salamishah. Salamishah Tillet. 2016-09-20. What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules (Published 2016). en-US. The New York Times. 2020-11-18. 0362-4331.
  16. Book: Culp, Jennifer. I Have Been Sexually Abused. Now What?. 2014. 978-1477779767. 18.

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