The home of trials and motocross news and events results for 45 years, TMX will be relaunched this spring following the acquisition of the rights to the title and website by the award-winning publisher WW Magazines from previous owners National World. Tina Callcutt, director of sales at National World said, “We are delighted that TMX has found a new home following the very difficult decision to close the title late in 2022, with the successful independent publisher of specialist titles, WW Magazines, and wish them the very best of luck with it”.
WW Magazines will already be familiar to waterway and narrowboat enthusiasts as publisher of Waterways World, Narrowboat Magazine and the Waterways Network titles, and it promises that TMX will be transformed into a glossy A4 monthly to deliver everything essential, and more, than it did previously both in print and online at www.tmxnews.co.uk. There’s also the considerable added bonus that the new-look TMX will incorporate Dirt Bike Rider, further increasing its global audience.
The reader experience is highly important to WW Magazines’ publisher, Peter Johns. “We are always mindful that the magazines are not ‘ours’; they belong to our readers, and crucially we will strive to remember that, increasingly, we have an audience rather than a readership, we all follow our passions in different ways, not just print but endless digital formats. We aim to keep TMX moving forward and reflect these changes.”
TMX will contain news and reports from all the events that matter on the local, national and international stage. Plus, the editorial team say they will continuously look closely at the top riders, new products and technologically groundbreaking machinery to give readers full access to the world of off-road sports as well as remind them what events are coming up and why they need to be at them.
Continuing to lead the editorial team through the relaunch process will be long-serving TMX, and former Dirt Bike Rider, editor Anthony Sutton. “Having the opportunity to breathe new life into an iconic product like TMX with the full support of the highly motivated and skilled specialist team at WW Magazines is an amazing opportunity. I really can’t wait to see the new-look TMX on newsagents’ shelves. Okay, it might not be the TMX that people have been used to seeing for the past 45 years, but in essence, the TMX spirit remains very much intact, and the product will stay loyal to its roots – it’ll just look so much better printed on high-quality paper rather than newsprint.”
As the title has already discovered, the waters are pretty choppy for print publishing, what with increased paper costs and more diverse media available, facts which haven’t passed WW Magazines by as commercial director Rachael Grignon explains. “Our approach is to work closely with our commercial partners to devise bespoke support packages that harness all ways of reaching our audiences. We are really excited to start engaging and working with businesses and organisations in this sector to take the legacy of TMX and Dirt Bike Rider to new heights as the go-to publication, website and media channels for the off-road community.”
Contact TMX
Peter Johns – [email protected]
Rachael Grignon – [email protected]
Anthony Sutton – [email protected]