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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 29, 2006 22:56:17 GMT 12
What year did New Zealand Wings (now Pacific Wings) begin circulation? I'm sure it was about 1932 but can't find the exact date.
Just I was listening to National Radio yesterday and they had a piece on the history of magazines. It was saying that NZ has the biggest range of magazines available in the world and have been forerunners in the magazine industry for a long time.
The most important point which I heard was NZ invented the specialist magazine according to this doco. rather than magazines that covered all sorts of topics. They stated (and this was some expert being interviewed) that Sea Spray was the worl'd first specialist magazine to go on sale in the world, in 1945.
I was thinking, surely NZ Wings is also a specialist magazine, and it predates that by more than a decade. And what about The Aeroplane (now Aeroplane Monthly) in the UK. When did that start?
I'd be keen to find some evidence in case I have a reason to email the show and dispute their 'facts'.
Does anyone agree that Wings and Aeroplane predate 1945 as specialist magazines?
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 30, 2006 8:44:58 GMT 12
Dave, I'm sure you're correct that NZ Wings started in 1932, as I do seem to recall there was a 50th Anniversary edition sometime in 1982. I'd probably have it somewhere in my collection in Christchurch - not that that's much help right now! I'd certainly class Wings as a specialist magazine!
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