OUR STORY

ARTnews is established by James Clarence Hyde as a weekly publication covering the top art happenings in the U.S. and Europe.

Variety is founded by Sime Silverman in New York. The first issue is a weekly covering all aspects of the industry: theater, music, vaudeville, and eventually film, radio and television.

Variety runs a notice that it is inaugurating “moving picture reviews,” assessing 7-minute films.

Variety reviews stage shows starting with, “The Wow Wows,” featuring Charles Chaplin.

WWD is founded by Edmund Fairchild on July 13, 1910.

Art critic, historian, and collector Frederic Fairchild Sherman publishes the first issue of Art in America, the same year as the inaugural Armory Show.

Variety evaluates the success of 111 Broadway shows, and is one of the few trades to keep track of Broadway to analyze the business and the aesthetics.

Variety publishes a series of stories explaining Warner Bros.' new Vitaphone, a sound-on-disc system to enable talking pictures.

Following the stock market crash, ARTnews changes formats from a newspaper to a magazine.

The Hollywood Reporter was founded in 1930 by William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood’s first daily entertainment trade newspaper.

Variety covers the inaugural Venice Film Festival, the world’s first international film festival.

Film-Kurier criticizes Variety over its negative coverage of the Nazi party. Variety continues to issue warnings despite the criticism.

Variety introduces Daily Variety in Los Angeles to cover the motion-picture industry.

The first Billboard Charts debuts, devoted to jukebox hits.

The first Golden Globe Awards ceremony is held in January 1944.

Collector A. Reynolds Morse champions Salvador Dalí in a rare story on modern art for the July issue of Art in America.

Footwear News (FN) debuts on October 6, 1945. The weekly, published by Women’s Wear Co., leads the conversation on manufacturing and all the latest fashion trends.

An essay by Jean-Paul Sartre about Calder’s work appears in ARTnews December 1947 issue.

Golden Globes introduces the Cecil B. DeMille Awards, presented to Cecil B. DeMille.

Thurgood Marshall praises Variety for its series of articles exploring the lack of good roles for Black actors. This was 60 years before #OscarsSoWhite.

Television categories are added to Golden Globe Awards.

Dick Clark is named the host of “American Bandstand.”

Dick Clark Productions (DCP) is established.

The Billboard Hot 100 is introduced on August 4, 1958.

Artist Donald Judd publishes his first piece with ARTnews: a short review of a show by his future partner, Yayoi Kusama.

John B. Fairchild becomes Publisher and Editorial Director of WWD, transforming it into a cultural force, coining terms such as Ladies Who Lunch, Little Black Dress, Jackie O and the Battle of Versailles.

The Golden Globes Awards takes place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where it's been held every year since.

John P. Irwin, Jr. founds ArtForum in San Francisco, naming Philip Leider as the magazine’s first editor.

A series of interviews with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and others solidifies the Pop Art movement.

Roy Lichtenstein designs “Pop Panorama” covers evoking the 1964 World’s Fair for a New York–themed issue.

The Golden Globe Awards are broadcast nationally for the first time.

Academy of Country Music (ACM) is founded.

Variety carries an analysis saying Bob Dylan is the best thing that happened to Warner Bros. Music since Irving Berlin.

Footwear choices by Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy and Pope Paul VI — the first pope to visit the U.S. — are front-page news in FN.

The first ACM Awards ceremony is held in 1966.

Rolling Stone is founded in San Francisco by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason.

Linda Nochlin's story for ARTnews, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” becomes a crucial text of the feminist art movement.

The ACM Awards are televised for the first time, on ABC.

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (NYRE) debuts on December 31, 1972 as Dick Clark rings in 1973.

The American Music Awards (AMAs) debut on February 19, 1974.

Bing Crosby is presented with the first ever Award of Merit at the American Music Awards.

Founded by Robert L. “Rusty” White, Robb Report debuts as a newsletter to sell White’s collection of Civil War memorabilia as well as Rolls-Royce automobiles.

Loretta Lynn receives Artist of the Decade award.

Dick Clark Productions is named producer of ACM Awards on May 2, 1979.

FN launches the Footwear News Achievement Awards (FNAAs) to recognize the industry’s visionary leaders, brands, retailers and design talents.

A rattan bodice and nylon polyester skirt by Issey Miyake becomes one of Artforum's most iconic covers, demonstrating the ascendance of fashion in art’s symbolic systems.

Dick Clark Productions is named producer of the Golden Globe Awards.

The recording session for "We Are The World" coincides on same night and within close proximity to the AMAs, to bring together the greatest number of artists to participate.

Billboard introduces its first Latin chart, Hot Latin Singles.

Following Andy Warhol’s death, the May issue of Art in America features Thomas Crow’s essay “Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol” along with more famous tributes.

The inaugural SXSW Music & Media Conference takes place in March 1987, featuring 15 panels and 177 showcasing artists on 15 stages. More than 700 registrants from around the world attend.

Dick Clark signs off as host of “American Bandstand.”

Robb Report publishes first Best of the Best feature, at the time devoted exclusively to automobiles, later becoming a comprehensive review of leading brands across 16 categories of luxury.

American Pavilion launches at the 42nd Cannes Film Festival in May.

Billboard launches Billboard Music Awards, honoring Janet Jackson as the Hot 100 Singles Artist.

Variety publishes its first issue created on computers.

In May, Billboard introduces charts based on point-of-sale information provided by SoundScan, a predecessor company to Luminate.

The SoundScan Era begins. Luminate, previously known as Nielsen Music, begins tracking music sales for Billboard Charts.

AMAs introduces International Artist Awards, with the first going to Michael Jackson.

VIBE magazine debuts in September of 1993 with Snoop Dogg on the cover.

SXSW launches the SXSW Film & Multimedia Conference (SFMC).

Johnny Cash gives a memorable keynote speech and performs at Emo’s headlining after Beck at SXSW

IndieWire launches as a newsletter for independent filmmakers.

Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater, Mike Judge, Kevin Smith, and George Huang appear together on the panel "Outside the System Inside the System;" SXSW Film comes into its own.

IndieWire is the first print daily distributed at the Sundance Film Festival.

Variety.com is launched.

The Kodak Worldwide Student Program is launched by The American Pavillon at Cannes.

Billboard coins the term “K-Pop.”

WWD.com is launched.

Footwear News (FN) celebrates 50 years in business with three special anniversary supplements. In the midst of Y2K mania, FN looks back with an issue around “100 Years of Footwear.”

SHE Media is founded.

BMG and Ray Ban host Lisa Stansfield concert in The American Pavilion.

Gold Derby is launched by Tom O'Neil.

Roger Ebert interviews Francis Ford Coppola in The American Pavilion.

Beauty Inc. launches as Beauty Biz in 2001, and is renamed Beauty Inc. in 2011.

Dick Clark hosts the “American Bandstand” 50th Anniversary special on ABC with performances from Michael Jackson, as well as Cher, Stevie Wonder, KISS, and more.

Web 2.0 and the architecture for the social web dominate conversations at SXSW Interactive on March 15, 2002.

Penske Media Corporation is established.

ACM Awards break a Guinness World Record for being the most attended awards show with more than 70,000 attendees at AT&T Stadium in Texas.

Broadening its reach and influence by licensing foreign-language editions around the world, Robb Report establishes itself as the arbiter of taste. The Robb Report Club (now RR1) forms and launches Car of the Year.

SYTYCD debuts on FOX on July 20, 2005.

Deadline Hollywood first began in March as Deadline Hollywood Daily, the 24/7 Internet version of Nikki Finke’s long-running LA Weekly “Deadline Hollywood” print column.

Boy Genius Report is founded & launched as a landmark event, reshaping the tech news landscape.

Dick Clark returns to Times Square with new co-host Ryan Seacrest.

SheKnows, a digital media pioneer, launches a parenting and lifestyle site for 21st century moms.

PMC announces acquisition of Mail.com, the leading global content portal & email platform.

Billboard holds its first Women in Music event. Reba McEntire is honored as Woman of the Year.

Twitter sets up video screens in the convention center where registrants view live feeds marking the beginning of social media companies’ participation at SXSW.

PanelPicker, an online tool that gives the SXSW community a significant voice in programming conference sessions, launches in August.

Luminate, previously known as Nielsen Music, begins tracking streaming for Billboard Charts.

Damien Hirst’s "For the Love of God" graces the cover of Artforum's milestone issue devoted to “Art and Its Markets.”

Mail.com Media Corporation acquires DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com and signs multi-year agreement with award-winning entertainment business journalist, Nikki Finke.

Martin Scorsese inaugurates The Roger Ebert Conference Center at The American Pavilion.

Sourcing Journal is founded.

The first annual Streamy Awards take place on March 28, 2009.

Penske Media acquires BGR.com, one of the leading mobile, tech and gadget news brands.

WWD marks 100 years.

TVLine launches.

Penske Media becomes the third owner of Variety. Under Jay Penske, Variety becomes more profitable than ever.

Dick Clark passes away on April 18, 2012, at the age of 82.

The inaugural ATX Television Festival launches in Austin, TX in June.

The Life is Beautiful festival debuts, hosted over two days in October.

VIBE features the most notable artists in hip-hop & R/B including cover stars Prince (1994); Mary J. Blige (1995); Michael Jackson (1995); Usher (1998); Jay-Z (1999); Destiny's Child (2001) and Beyonce (2002).

Penske Media buys Fairchild Media Group (incl. FN and WWD) from Condé Nast. That December, FN launches Footwearnews.com, its first standalone website.

Michael Jackson performs at Billboard Music Awards as the first live hologram performance on an awards show.

SheKnows acquires StyleCaster, a fashion, style, and beauty destination for millennials.

SheKnows acquires BlogHer, a conference and publishing network launched to help women bloggers grow and scale.

WWD publishes its last daily print newspaper, becoming a digital-first publication.

Telemundo acquires the right to produce the Latin American Music Awards, a Spanish language version of the show.

Rivet is launched by Sourcing Journal, as a daily news source for the global denim community.

At SXSW notable keynote speakers and panel moderators include President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott and Sophia Bush."

IndieWire is acquired by Penske Media.

Penske Media announces strategic investment in Wenner Media, and its majority interest in Rolling Stone.

Spy.com launches by PMC.

Editor-in-Chief Paul Croughton re-imagines Robb Report with a new look and a robust digital presence, gaining a diverse audience of readers and advertisers for the brand.

Penske Media and its subsidiary, Fairchild Media, announce the acquisition of Sourcing Journal.

SheKnows is acquired by Penske Media and becomes “SHE Media," a leading multi-platform consumer lifestyle network for women.

In November, Penske Media acquires Art in America and begins to enhance the title's digital presence, while maintaining its more than century-long print tradition.

The Golden Globe Awards introduce the Carol Burnett Award for television excellence.

Penske Media makes strategic investment in LDJ Productions.

As of 2020, So You Think You Can Dance has received 71 Emmy nominations and 17 awards.

Sportico launches in the midst of a global pandemic, with sports media veterans Dick Glover and Scott Soshnick at the helm, quickly becoming a default resource for the sports industry.

Music Business Worldwide

Penske Media announces strategic investment in SXSW, demonstrating conviction in the future of live events.

Billboard Announces the launch of Billboard Espanol.

ATX TV is acquired by Penske Media in November 2022.

Penske Media announces acquisition of The American Pavilion.

Taylor Swift wins her 40th trophy, continuing her role as most awarded artist of the American Music Awards.

March 2020: SXSW returns live after two years of online events due to Covid-19. The lineup includes Lizzo, Japanese Breakfast, Dolly Parton, and the world premiere of Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The first ever LA3C takes place in Los Angeles Historic Park December 10, 11 2022. Headliners include Maluma, Snoop Dogg, Lil Baby and K Pop Sensations Seventeen.

Penske Media acquires leading art publication, Artforum.

DCP acquired by Penske Media Eldridge, a PMC subsidiary and joint venture between Penske Media and Eldridge Industries.

Penske Media unveils live event streaming platform, Harmony.

Penske Media makes strategic investment in Vox Media.

Dick Clark Productions acquires the Golden Globes.

The ACM Awards return to Texas with hosts Dolly Parton & Garth Brooks, making it Brooks' first time ever hosting an awards show.

SHE Media launches Flow: Science & Stories for Women’s Whole Life Health, with Busy Phillipps, Ilana Glazer, Emma Lovewell, Elaine Welteroth, and Stacy London in the inaugural issue.

The Streamys announce the launch of the Rolling Stone Sound of the Year Award, honoring songs that dominated content creation on social media.

SPY launches a biweekly newsletter in June 2023 offering for 200K+ subscribers timely reporting on emerging trends and savvy product curation.