Tipsbladet

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Tipsbladet
CategoriesSports magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderElwin Hansen
Founded1948
Country Denmark
Based in Copenhagen
Language Danish
Website www.tipsbladet.dk

Tipsbladet is a weekly sports magazine focusing on football which has been in circulation since 1948. It the oldest football magazine in Scandinavia [1] and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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History and profile

Tipsbladet was founded by Elwin Hansen in 1948. [1] The magazine, published on a weekly basis, [2] is based in Copenhagen. [3] The publisher of the weekly is TIPS-bladet A/S. [4] As of 2015, Troels Bager Thogersen was the editor-in-chief of the magazine, [5] which exclusively focuses on national Danish football leagues. [6]

On 5 October 2012 Tipsbladet became the Friday edition of the newspaper Ekstra Bladet . [1] Then it began to be published as a section of its Tuesday and Friday issues. [7] In September 2023, it was announced Tipsbladet had been acquired by the Copenhagen-headquartered digital sports media group, Better Collective, for €6.5 million. [8]

In 1975 Tipsbladet sold 32,380 copies. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ekstra Bladet / Tipsbladet" (PDF). INMA. 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. Europa World Year. London; New York: Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1439. ISBN   978-1-85743-254-1.
  3. "TIPS-bladet". European Sports Media. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  4. "Company Overview of TIPS-bladet A/S". Bloomberg. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  5. Sean Ingle (27 July 2015). "How Midtjylland took the analytical route towards the Champions League". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  6. Stine Liv Johansen (2015). "Being a Football Kid. Football as a Mediatised Play Practice". In Alexandra Schwell; Nina Szogs; Malgorzata Kowalska; Michał Buchowski (eds.). New Ethnographies of Football in Europe: People, Passions, Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 169. ISBN   978-1-137-51698-5.
  7. Gertrud Pfister; Verena Lenneis; Svenja Mintert (2013). "Female fans of men's football – a case study in Denmark". Soccer & Society. 14 (6): 852. doi:10.1080/14660970.2013.843923. S2CID   145501859.
  8. Jonny Whitfield (18 September 2023). "Better Collective acquiring Tipsbladet for €6.5m". Intergame.
  9. Aage Erhardtsen (May 1978). Evolution of concentration and competition in the Danish newspaper and magazine sector. Brussels: Commission of the European Communities. ISBN   9789282504635.