Tony Elliot, the founder and owner of the Time Out publishing brand, has nothing concrete to report on the future of the much-delayed Time Out Manchester magazine, as the launch editor for the publication, Bill Borrows, moves to join TalkSport’s new digital magazine.
Borrows, a former editor at large for Loaded and Maxim, was signed up as the launch editor for Time Out back in 2006, steering the generally well-received pilot copy that hit the city streets in September of that year.
A weekly launch was then planned for Spring of 2007, before Elliot, who was trying to raise £1m to fund the publication, told How-Do that the launch would be delayed until October and, if negotiations dragged out, possibly January 2008.
He said at the time that he was “adamant” that the launch would happen.
Since then news on the magazine front has been hard to come by, with many industry commentators now firmly of the opinion that it simply won’t come into being.
The dedicated Manchester website, however, has seen more activity and has since become the obvious hub for the brand’s foothold in the region.
Time Out also published the first edition of its Time Out Manchester Guide last year.
When contacted by How-Do to get an update on his plans Elliot simply stated that there was “nothing to report” in terms of further movement.
Meanwhile, Burrows has moved on to Talksport’s new heavily financed online title, which will be emailed to subscribers each week when it launches this summer.
TalkSport currently claims listening figures of 2.5m people every week.
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