Bild am Sonntag

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Bild am Sonntag
Logo Bild am Sonntag (Bams).svg
TypeSunday newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Axel Springer AG
EditorMarion Horn
Founded29 April 1956;67 years ago (1956-04-29)
Circulation 1,066,330 (Q2 2016)
Sister newspapers Bild
ISSN 0341-4906
Website bams.de

Bild am Sonntag (BamS) is the largest-selling German national Sunday newspaper published in Berlin, Germany.

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History and profile

Bild am Sonntag was first published on 29 April 1956. [1] The paper is published weekly by Axel Springer AG and is a sister paper to the Monday-to-Saturday Bild . Its editor from 2008 to 2013 was Walter Mayer. [2] The new editorship is taken by Marion Horn since 2013. The paper publishes the Goldenes Lenkrad (Golden Steering Wheel) award each year.

Circulation

The Bild am Sonntag as well as the Bild are amongst the German Newspapers with the largest losses in circulation in recent years.

During the second quarter of 1992 the circulation of Bild am Sonntag was 2.6 million copies. [3] Its circulation was 2.5 million copies in 1997. [4]

Bild am Sonntag had an average circulation of 2,023,000 copies in 2003. [5] The paper had a circulation of 2,161,502 copies during the third quarter of 2004 and 2,042,128 copies during the third quarter of 2005. [6] Its circulation was 2,014,352 copies during the third quarter of 2006, [6] and was 2,164,000 copies for 2006 as a whole. [7]

Its circulation fell to 1,873,354 copies during the third quarter of 2007 and to 1,780,934 copies during the third quarter of 2008. [6] The circulation of the paper was 1,577,764 copies in 2010 [8] and 1,388,009 copies in 2012. [9] During the second quarter of 2016 the paper had a circulation of 1,066,330 copies. [10]

Editors-in-Chief

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