Cue was a weekly magazine that covered theatre and arts events in New York from 1932 to 1980, when it was taken over by New York magazine.
Categories | listings |
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Frequency | weekly |
Publisher | Mort Glankoff |
Total circulation (1980) | 300,000 |
Founder | Mort Glankoff |
First issue | November 5, 1932 |
Final issue | April 25, 1980 |
Based in | New York, New York |
Cue was the first of the city magazines, serving as a model for those that followed.[1]
Cue was founded in 1932 by Mort Glankoff.[2]
Claudette Colbert was on the cover of the first issue. The magazine's focus was evident from its various taglines over the years:
Cue was an early listings magazine. BBC's Radio Times listed radio schedules in 1923. Cue, with its city-specific focus, was the model for a genre that came to include Time Out, which now has 108 city editions.[3]
Glankoff sold Cue to Rupert Murdoch's New York magazine in 1980. Cue was prized for its listings section.[4] Glankoff died in August 1986.[5]