Long-time industry trade publication Radio & Records is closing its doors.

The end for the 36-year-old publication comes three years after VNU purchased the publication. VNU subsequently changed its name to The Nielsen Company.

“The current state of affairs has left The Nielsen Company with no other alternative but to immediately cease all services, products and events related to Radio & Records,” according to a statement on the company’s Web site. The magazine’s final edition is the June 5 issue. Electronic products end today, the Web site will be taken offline soon, the company said.

R&R reported that publisher Howard Appelbaum told employees that it was a “tough decision” but that the magazine’s “macro did not work” in this economic climate. It was Appelbaum’s third such company-wide teleconference. In the first, he introduced himself on news of the departure of longtime publisher and president Erica Farber in early January. On Feb. 25, Applebaum announced steep staff cutbacks at the magazine.

Nielsen Business Media owns several other B2B titles including Adweek, Billboard, Brandweek, Mediaweek, Editor & Publisher, Hispanic Marketing, the Hollywood Reporter, Progressive Grocer and others.

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I just heard on the radio that the site would remain open for a short time longer but at present it will redirect you to the Billboard site.


C'est la vie.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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That freaked me out yesterday when I visited their site and they were gone.