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BAM (short for Bay Area Music) was a free bi-weekly music magazine founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area from January 1976 until June 1999.

History

Bay Area Music magazine was first published in January 1976. It was a free bi-weekly magazine that was funded by advertisers.

In the mid-1980s the magazine reached its largest circulation of 130,000 biweekly throughout California, after opening an office in Los Angeles. After the opening of the Los Angeles office, separate Northern and Southern editions of BAM were published.

In October 1994, the magazine got a new publisher, Earl Adkins. Adkins resigned in spring 1995. In 1995, Bam magazine's parent company, Bam Media, bought the copyright to the Seattle Rocket music magazine.

The final edition of the print magazine was published in June 1999. The paper's circulation at the time of closing was 55,000. The BAM logo was used as the music section of This Week, another Bam Media publication, after the paper folded.

Relaunch

In 2011, BAM returned as an online magazine at BAMmagazine.com, operated by Dennis Erokan.

Bammies

In 1977, Erokan founded the Bay Area Music Awards, better known as the Bammies, a yearly award show for musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Winners were voted on by BAM's readers. In 1998, the Bammies name was changed to the California Music Awards. In March 2018, there was a Bammies Reunion Concert in San Francisco.

MicroTimes

MicroTimes was a free regional computer magazine, focused on industry personalities, founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in 1984 and sold in 1999.

References

1. Ganahl, Jane; Staff, Of the Examiner (June 4, 1999). "BAM magazine shuts doors". SFGate. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
2. "The Stanford Daily 24 October 1996 — The Stanford Daily". stanforddailyarchive.com. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
3. ^ Chonin, Neva; Writer, Chronicle Staff (June 4, 1999). "Bam To Cease Publishing / Music magazine was losing money". SFGate. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
4. ^ Ganahl, Jane; Staff, Of the Examiner (September 1, 1995). "BAM Magazine merges with Seattle Rocket". SFGate. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
5. ^ "Bammies reunion hopes to revive spirit of once-popular Bay Area award show - SFChronicle.com". www.sfchronicle.com. March 19, 2018. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
6. "BAM magazine will return as website". The Mercury News. September 1, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
7. MTV News Staff. "Hole Lead 'Bammies' Nominees". MTV News. Archived from the original on August 14, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
8. Report, Examiner Staff (October 21, 1997). "Bammies become California Music Awards". SFGate. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
9. "MicroTimes Newsletter". Internet Archive. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
10. Microtimes. BAM Publications, Incorporated. September 1989. via google books
11. "Volume 1 Number 1". MicroTimes. 1 (1). BAM Publications. May 1984. OCLC 18528655. Retrieved June 10, 2022. via archive.org

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