[SFDXA] CQ Names New Ad Manager As Publisher Shifts Gears:

[Bill]

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      CQ Names New Ad Manager As Publisher Shifts Gears:

from The ARRL Letter on March 6, 2014

*CQ Names New Ad Manager As Publisher Shifts Gears:*

CQ Communications President Richard Ross, K2MGA, has announced the 
appointment of David Chartock chartock at aol.com <mailto:chartock at aol.com> 
to head the company's advertising department, effective immediately. 
Chartock, who is not a ham, arrives "as the magazine charts new ground 
as a part-print, part-digital 'hybrid' publication covering the entire 
communications hobby," the CQ announcement said. As Editorial Director 
Rich Moseson, W2VU, explained, "The main print and digital edition of CQ 
continues to focus on Amateur Radio, while the online-only CQ Plus 
supplement to the digital edition of CQ covers the full spectrum of 
hobby radio communications, from shortwave listening and scanning to 
broadcast band DXing and more."

Chartock succeeds Jon Kummer, WA2OJK, CQ's advertising chief since last 
fall. Kummer, who left in mid-February, faced a similar recalibration as 
the publisher of Antique Radio Classified http://www.antiqueradio.com/ 
<http://www.antiqueradio.com/>.

Chartock has more than 25 years' experience in publishing, both in 
editorial and sales. For 12 years he was editor of the trade magazine 
New York Construction News. Since 2002, he's been an independent sales 
representative, working with start-up publications and the annual 
journal of New York's Concrete Industry Board.

CQ announced 
http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/news/2014_02_attention_cq_subscriber.html recently 
that it's still experiencing delays with its January and February print 
editions, but that mail delivery of both issues was scheduled for 
mid-March. CQ has told its advertisers that a combined March/April issue 
of the magazine will follow "shortly thereafter," before it resumes 
single-issue publication. Online editions of the January 
http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416289907&o=ext 
<http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416289907&o=ext> and February 
http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issn=007-893X&o=ext&WT.mc_id=ACQ_COM_EXPLORE_USA_090612_CQAmateurRadioexpress 
issues of CQ are available for downloading and viewing.

In CQ's February "Zero Bias" editorial, Moseson cited CQ readership 
numbers that were "not keeping pace" with growth in the number of ham 
radio licensees, and "the glacial pace of the overall economic recovery" 
among the reasons behind the CQ magazine's delivery difficulties. CQ has 
been in publication for more than 65 years.

Word of the publications realignment came in December. Effective with 
the February 2014 issue of CQ, content from CQ's three sister 
publications -- Popular Communications 
http://www.popular-communications.com/ 
<http://www.popular-communications.com/>, CQ VHF http://www.cq-vhf.com/ 
<http://www.cq-vhf.com/> and WorldRadio 
http://www.worldradiomagazine.com/ <http://www.worldradiomagazine.com/> 
http://www.worldradiomagazine.com/ <http://www.worldradiomagazine.com/> 
Online http://www.worldradiomagazine.com/ 
<http://www.worldradiomagazine.com/> -- has been incorporated into CQ 
Plus. The print editions of Popular Communications and CQ VHF have been 
phased out, and WorldRadio Online no longer exists as a separate online 
publication.

*Source:*

The ARRL Letter

Article:
http://www.eham.net/articles/31862