The Last Issue of Entertainment Weekly

I signed up for a subscription for Entertainment Weekly in 1995. Back then there was this service called Publishers Clearinghouse. They sent out envelopes with lists of magazines at discounted prices. If you bought a magazine you could be signed up for a contest for a million dollars. I never won. I did get a big discount for the magazine though. For twenty-seven years, I paid a dollar an issue.

The magazine was good for most of that time. It had new music every week, new books, new movies and what to watch on tv. The writers were interesting and informative. I would read almost every article every week. Over time, they put less books, then less movies, less shows. They had celebrity stories that were boring. They had special issues that were preachy and boring, but I stuck with it.

In the middle of a subscription period, they switched to a monthly format. I hated it, but I figured I would let the subscription run out and never renew.

They beat me to the punch and ended the print run. It was like they made that business decision  pretty quick, because there were a few words in the last edition. No big, this is the end issue. No big special issue. They just said they would stop on one of the last pages.

I feel bad for the writers and photographers that worked there. Like noted earlier, they had some good writers pass through their halls. It was weird for me to not see that magazine anymore. 27 years. I never had a magazine subscription that long. I had subscriptions that I kept and stopped eventually. Maybe I would renew the magazine few years later. EW went straight for years.

It’s been a good run. Good bye Entertainment Weekly.