{"id":53772,"date":"2019-03-08T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53772"},"modified":"2019-03-08T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:50:59","slug":"ami-kills-off-transworld-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53772","title":{"rendered":"AMI Kills Off TransWorld SNOWboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twsnow_gone-450x253.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twsnow_gone.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/twsnow_gone-200x112.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just as the snowboard industry was getting used to the idea of a future without <em>TransWorld Snowboarding<\/em> in print, the brand announces that as of March 6, 2019 the entire brand is dead and over. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/snowboarding.transworld.net\/news\/transworld-snowboarding-magazine-1987-2019\/\"><strong>post on the site<\/strong><\/a> someone explained it like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All good things, unfortunately, must come to an end, and effective March 6, 2019, <em>TransWorld SNOWboarding<\/em> has closed; the 32nd volume of magazines will be our last, and <em>Kamikazu<\/em> will be our final film. Over the coming weeks on our site and social channels we&#8217;ll publish tributes and reflections from the photographers, editors, filmers, and riders who defined the title over the years, so please check back regularly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a <strong>Keith Kelly<\/strong> story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/07\/bike-surfer-powder-to-continue-print-editions-under-ami\/\"><em><strong>NY Post<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, what is left of TWSnow will be &#8220;rolled into in-house rival <em>Snowboarder&#8221;<\/em> and go digital. So what&#8217;s left?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only three titles \u2014 <em><strong>Bike<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Surfer<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>Powder<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 will survive with regularly scheduled print editions after 14 titles of The Enthusiast Network were quietly sold to American Media Inc. . .&nbsp;\u201cWe always viewed the <strong>Adventure Sports Network<\/strong> as an acquisition focused on significant digital scale and unparalleled experiential events,\u201d said an AMI spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see that at least an unnamed AMI spokesman has a plan for the recently purchased titles. &nbsp;We can&#8217;t wait to see how this all pans out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/snowboarding.transworld.net\/news\/transworld-snowboarding-magazine-1987-2019\/\">TransWorld SNOWboarding<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/07\/bike-surfer-powder-to-continue-print-editions-under-ami\/\">NY Post<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the snowboard industry was getting used to the idea of a future without TransWorld Snowboarding in print, the brand announces that as of March 6, 2019 the entire brand is dead and over. In a post on the site someone explained it like this: All good things, unfortunately, must come to an end, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53772"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53782,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53772\/revisions\/53782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}