EMAP

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EMAP plc
Type	Public limited company
Founded	1947
Headquarters	London, UK
Key people	Adam Broadbent: Chairman Tom Moloney: Group CEO Ian Griffiths: CFO Paul Keenan: CEO - Emap Consumer Media
Industry	Publishing
Revenue	/ Turnover £1.154 Billion GBP (2006)
Operating income	£223 Million GBP (2006)
Employees	5,500~
Website	www.emap.com

EMAP plc (LSE: EMA) is a British media company, specialising in the production of magazines, and the organization of business events and conferences. It also owns several radio and television stations. "EMAP" is an abbreviation of East Midlands Allied Press. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange. After a period as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, it has been demoted to the FTSE 250 Index with effect from 16 September 2005.

The group is structurally divided into main branches: "EMAP Consumer Media", "EMAP Communications", "EMAP Radio" and "EMAP Advertising". On 20 June 2006 "EMAP France" was sold to Italian press group Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. for €545 million. On 29 September 2006, "EMAP France" became officially "Mondadori France".

[edit] EMAP Radio

Main article: EMAP Radio

EMAP operates seven DAB multiplexes and also three jointly owned multiplexes with UTV which EMAP owns 30%. In addition, EMAP Radio now owns 40 UK and Ireland local commercial radio stations. On 21 June 2005, EMAP acquired 21 radio stations from its purchase of Scottish Radio Holdings.

Twenty of its local contemporary music radio stations based across the north of the United Kingdom are marketed as the Big City Network whilst each of these has a sister station. In England, the stations play oldies jointly marketed as Magic Radio whilst in Scotland and Northern Ireland, they are marketed separately playing similar music to the Magic stations.

[edit] EMAP Magazines

EMAPs Consumer Media department controls over 150 magazines in the UK and France, including FHM, Q magazine, and Top Santé. Here are some popular magazines that are currently owned by EMAP:

• Architects' Journal
• Architectural Review
• Arena
• Bliss
• Bike Magazine
• Closer
• Empire
• FHM
• First
• Grazia
• Heat
• Kerrang!
• MATCH!
• Max Power
• Parker's
• Q
• Zoo
• Motorcycle News (MCN)
• Practical Fishkeeping
• Practical Classics
• Trout and Salmon
• Practical Photography
• CAR magazine

EMAP ceased publishing many magazines in its history, in particular was a move away from the computing genre during the mid-90s. Here are magazines formerly published by EMAP:

• Computer and Video Games
• CU Amiga Magazine
• Internet Magazine
• Mean Machines
• Nintendo Official Magazine
• Sinclair User
• ST Review
• The One
• Smash Hits

[edit] External links

• EMAP Website
• EMAP Digital Radio Website