LOS ANGELES, May 5 (Xinhua) -- TV Week, the leading television programming magazine in the United States, will shut down its print publication at the end of this month and become online-only, its publisher announced Tuesday.
The announcement ended months of speculation over the fate of the trade publication, which has covered the business of TV programming for more than 25 years.
The last print issue of TV Week is expected to be on June 1, as coverage will continue on the website TVWeek.com, according to owner Crain Communications.
Meanwhile, TV Week's successful NewsPro supplement will be spunoff as a stand-alone print magazine.
The NewsPro magazine will be launched in August and published monthly thereafter. As part of TV Week, Newspro has served journalists, news managers and news executives across the United States in the past 10 years.
TV Week, which began in 1982 as Electronic Media and changed its name to Television Week in 2003, has been hurt in recent years by consolidation in the syndication and TV station businesses as advertising support kept drying up.
The magazine's move from print to online service mirrors the transition being made by many other trade publications as readers prefer online news to hard-copy newspapers. TV Week's website currently reaches far more readers than its print magazine does.
"This is clearly a new era for publishing, and we know we must adapt in order to best serve our readers and advertisers," said David Klein, the magazine's publishing director.
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