Report from the 2009 De Silva + Phillips Dealmakers Summit: Debating the future shape of US media

WARC Online's U.S. Editor, Geoffrey Precourt, reports on a presentation by Scott Crystal, ceo of the "TV Guide" magazine, at the DeSilva + Phillips Dealmakers Summit in New York.

Report from the 2009 De Silva + Phillips Dealmakers Summit: Debating the future shape of US media

Geoffrey PrecourtWARC Online

The American magazine business is in chaos, to the point of near collapse, according to the head of one of the country's iconic magazine titles.

"Cosmo Girl. O At Home. Domino. Country Home. They're all gone," Scott Crystal, TV Guide chairman/ceo, the 7th-annual DeSilva + Phillips Dealmakers Summit in New York.

"And the list seems to be growing. No one had any idea that any of them was in trouble. Cosmo Girl's circulation of 1.4 million...

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