American magazine
Family Circle
October 1, 2009 cover
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Editor-in-chief
| Cheryl Brown
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Categories
| Home economics, women's interest
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Frequency
| 12 per year
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Publisher
| Meredith
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Total circulation
(2011)
| 3,816,958
[1]
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First issue
| 1932
; 92 years ago
(
1932
)
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Final issue
| December 2019
(
2019-12
)
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Country
| United States
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Based in
| New York City
[2]
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Language
| English
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Website
| www.familycircle.com
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ISSN
| 0014-7206
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Family Circle
was an American women's
magazine
that covered topics such as
homemaking
, recipes and health. It was published from 1932 until the end of 2019.
[3]
Originally distributed at supermarkets, it was one of the "
Seven Sisters
," a group of seven traditional female-oriented magazines centered on household issues, along with
Ladies' Home Journal
,
McCall's
,
Good Housekeeping
,
Better Homes and Gardens
,
Woman's Day
and
Redbook
.
[4]
History
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]
Family Circle
was first published in 1932. It was initially distributed for free at
Piggly Wiggly
supermarkets until it was offered as a freestanding publication in 1946.
[5]
Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting
bought the magazine in 1962.
The New York Times Company
bought the magazine for its women's magazine division in 1971. The division was sold to
Gruner + Jahr
in 1994. When Gruner + Jahr decided to exit the American magazine market in 2005, the magazine was sold to the
Meredith Corporation
.
From 1973 to 2015,
Family Circle
was the title sponsor of the Family Circle Cup (
Charleston Open
) women's professional
tennis
tournament on the
WTA Tour
, which was held at its namesake
Family Circle Tennis Center
in
Charleston, South Carolina
starting in 2001. At the time when the sponsorship ended,
Family Circle
was the longest-running title sponsor in professional tennis.
[6]
[7]
Between 1992 and 2020, the magazine also ran the
First Lady Bake-Off
for the spouses of incumbent or running presidential candidates; the results successfully predicted the presidential winner in five of the seven election cycles since its founding.
[8]
In November 2009,
Family Circle
launched a social network called
Momster.com
for mothers of tweens and teens.
[9]
In October 2019, Meredith Corporation announced that
Family Circle
would cease publication with the December 2019 issue. The publisher reported that the magazine had 13 million readers, more than one million followers on social media and a circulation of four million. As part of the closure, about 25 Family Circle staffers were released from employment and others were reassigned at other Meredith publications.
[3]
Editors
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- Harry Evans (1932?1936)
- Robert Endicott (1936?1954)
- Robert Jones (1955?1965)
- Arthur Hettich (1965?1985)
- Gay Bryant (1985?1986)
- Arthur Hettich (1986?1988)
- Jacqueline Leo
(1988?1994)
- Susan Kelliher Ungaro (1994?2006)
- Linda Fears (2006?2017)
- Cheryl Brown (2017?2019)
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"eCirc for Consumer Magazines"
.
Audit Bureau of Circulations
. June 30, 2011. Archived from
the original
on July 24, 2012
. Retrieved
October 18,
2011
.
- ^
Dave Eisenstadter (May 28, 2015).
"Family Fun magazine leaving Northampton; jobs moving to New York City"
.
GazetteNet
. Retrieved
December 12,
2015
.
- ^
a
b
Kerry Flynn.
"Family Circle magazine to shut down after December issue"
.
CNN Business
. CNN
. Retrieved
October 16,
2019
.
- ^
Kuczynski, Alex (February 28, 2000).
"Old-Line Women's Magazines Turn to Sex to Spice Up Their Sales"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
January 30,
2020
.
- ^
"History of publishing - Women's magazines in the United States"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
January 30,
2020
.
- ^
Gene Sapakoff (August 30, 2015).
"Tourney to take a ride with Volvo Tennis cup's new sponsor might help draw big names"
. The Post and Courier.
- ^
Ashley Heffernan (September 1, 2015).
"Family Circle Cup tennis tournament renamed to Volvo Cars Open"
. Columbia Regional Business Report. Archived from
the original
on October 29, 2021
. Retrieved
January 30,
2020
.
- ^
Kate Bennett.
"Political tradition crumbles as the first lady cookie competition ends"
.
CNN
. Retrieved
September 3,
2020
.
- ^
"Momster.com"
. Archived from
the original
on May 18, 2009
. Retrieved
February 13,
2010
.
Further reading
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External links
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