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Cue
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Categories
| listings
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Frequency
| weekly
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Publisher
| Mort Glankoff
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Total circulation
(1980)
| 300,000
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Founder
| Mort Glankoff
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First issue
| November 5, 1932
; 91 years ago
(
1932-11-05
)
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Final issue
| April 25, 1980
(
1980-04-25
)
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Based in
| New York, New York
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Cue
was a weekly magazine that covered theatre and arts events in New York from 1932 to 1980, when it was taken over by
New York
magazine.
Cue
was the first of the
city
magazines, serving as a model for those that followed.
[1]
History
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Cue was founded in 1932 by Mort Glankoff.
[2]
Claudette Colbert
was on the cover of the first issue. The magazine's focus was evident from its various taglines over the years:
- Naborhood Theater Guide
- The Weekly Magazine of Stage and Screen
- The Weekly Magazine of New York Life
- New York's own Entertainment Magazine
- New York's only complete entertainment weekly
- Where to go -- What to do -- in New York
- The complete entertainment guid for New York and the Suburbs
- For New York and the Suburbs
The complete entertainment guide.
Cue
was an early
listings magazine
.
BBC
's
Radio Times
listed radio schedules in 1923.
Cue
, with its city-specific focus, was the model for a genre that came to include
Time Out
, which now has 108 city editions.
[3]
Glankoff sold
Cue
to
Rupert Murdoch
's
New York
magazine in 1980.
Cue
was prized for its listings section.
[4]
Glankoff died in August 1986.
[5]
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