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1960
The News Chronicle
is incorporated into The Daily Mail
The Star is
incorporated into The London Evening News
The Sunday Empire
News is incorporated into The News Of The
World
The Sunday Dispatch and Daily
Herald print the first colour pictures ( Princess Margaret's
wedding )
Circulation of The Radio Times is 6,784,487
15th January The
National Christian News starts
10th March Record
Retailer / Music Week publishes the first U.K.
singles Top 50 and L.P. record charts
10th December The
Sunday Graphic expires
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1961
In 1961 there were
133 daily papers and 1.310 weekly papers being
produced in the U.K. and Eire
The Sunday
Telegraph starts ( price 4d )
The Mirror group
takes over Odhams Publishing
The Sunday Dispatch
is incorporated into The Sunday Express
Most national
dailies increase their prices to 3d in March
Richard Ingrams initiates 'Private Eye'
magazine
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1962
4th February The Sunday Times
produces the first colour supplement, the front page of which
includes 11 pictures of Jean Shrimpton by David Bailey.
10th March The Radio Times publishes its 2000th issue - price
5d
In April the NME ( New Musical
Express ) celebrates its 10th anniversary. Its sales exceed
200,000 copies weekly which is more than all the other sales
of weekly 'pop' newspapers combined.
June A miniature edition of The Radio Times was produced for
the Royal doll's house, measuring 7.5cm x 6cm
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1963
The Observer starts
issuing a colour supplement
The Daily Telegraph
starts issuing a colour magazine with its Friday
edition
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1964
9th June Lord
Beaverbrook, the press baron of Express Newspapers
dies aged 85
14th September The
Daily Herald expires
14th September At
10p.m. presses start rolling at The Sun , the first
new national daily for 34 years
15th September The
Sun sells 3.5 million copies on its first
day
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1965
Nova magazine is
launched - 'A new kind of magazine for the new kind
of woman'
Lord Thompson
launches 'the world's most modern newspaper', The
Evening Post, in September
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1966
The Daily Worker
becomes The Morning Star
The Bristol Evening
Post changes its typesetting methods to a
computer-controlled system
IT International
Times magazine is first published
30th September Lord
Thompson buys The Times which changes its front
page layout for the first time in 181 years to
include more news stories
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1967
The Sunday Citizen
expires
Reynolds News
expires
Rolling Stone
magazine is first produced, in San Francisco
Oz 'underground'
magazine is first published by Richard
Neville
William Rees-Mogg
becomes editor of The Times
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1968
13th October
British publisher Sir Stanley Unwin dies
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1969
The 'ZIG ZAG' fanzine is launched
Circulation of The Radio Times is 3,883,815 - about half of
what it was in 1960
1st January Rupert
Murdoch wins the takeover battle with Robert
Maxwell for The News of the World
21st July The
biggest typefaces ever used announce that man is on
the moon
15th October The
print unions finally allow Rupert Murdoch's
purchase of The Sun
17th November The
Sun becomes a tabloid
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