BAM (magazine)

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Bay Area Music (BAM)
Type Music magazine
FormatFree biweekly
Owner(s)Bam Media
Founder(s)Dennis Erokan
PublisherEarl Adkins (from 1994)
LaunchedJanuary 1976;48 years ago (January 1976)
Ceased publicationJune 1999 (1999-06)
Relaunched2011 (2011)
Circulation 130,000 (mid-1980s)
Sister newspapers
  • This Week
  • MicroTimes
Website www.bammagazine.com

BAM (short for Bay Area Music) was a free bi-weekly music magazine founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area from January 1976 until June 1999. [1]

Contents

History

Bay Area Music magazine was first published in January 1976. It was a free bi-weekly magazine that was funded by advertisers. [2]

In the mid-1980s the magazine reached its largest circulation of 130,000 biweekly throughout California, after opening an office in Los Angeles. [3] After the opening of the Los Angeles office, separate Northern and Southern editions of BAM were published. [3]

In October 1994, the magazine got a new publisher, Earl Adkins. [4] Adkins resigned in spring 1995. In 1995, Bam magazine's parent company, Bam Media, bought the copyright to the Seattle Rocket music magazine. [4]

The final edition of the print magazine was published in June 1999. [3] The paper's circulation at the time of closing was 55,000. [3] The BAM logo was used as the music section of This Week, another Bam Media publication, after the paper folded. [3]

Relaunch

In 2011, BAM returned as an online magazine at BAMmagazine.com, [5] operated by Dennis Erokan. [6]

Bammies

In 1977, Erokan founded the Bay Area Music Awards, better known as the Bammies, a yearly award show for musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. [4] Winners were voted on by BAM's readers. [7] In 1998, the Bammies name was changed to the California Music Awards. [8] In March 2018, there was a Bammies Reunion Concert in San Francisco. [5]

MicroTimes

MicroTimes was a free regional computer magazine, focused on industry personalities, founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in 1984 and sold in 1999. [9] [10] [11]

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