Tiger Beat is an American teen fan magazine originally published by The Laufer Company, and marketed primarily to adolescent girls.
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History and profile
Tiger Beat was founded in September 1965 by Charles "Chuck" Laufer, his brother Ira Laufer, and television producer and host Lloyd Thaxton. The magazine has as its forte teen idol gossip, movies, music and fashion, with Charles Laufer having described the magazine's content as "guys in their 20s singing 'La La' songs to 13-year-old girls."
A distinctive element of Tiger Beat is its covers, which feature 'cut and paste' collaged photos - primarily head shots - of current teen idols. For the first twelve issues, the face of magazine co-founder Thaxton appeared at the top corner of the Tiger Beat cover (then titled Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat), and he also contributed a column.
During the 1960s The Laufer Company leveraged the teen market dominated by Tiger Beat with additional, thematically and graphically similar magazines, including FaVE and Monkee Spectacular. 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 co-founder Charles Laufer. Since 2015 Tiger Beat has been published by Los Angeles-based Tiger Beat Media, Inc., which until 2014 also produced the similar teen magazine Bop.
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References
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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