Nine-O-One Network Magazine
Rolling Stone Ron Wood cover story, October 1986 issue
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| Categories | Music magazine |
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| Frequency | Bi-monthly |
| Year founded | 1986 |
| First issue | 1986 (September/October) |
| Final issue | 1989 |
| Company | Nine-O-One Network, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Language | English |
| OCLC number | 24881957 |
Nine-O-One Network Magazine was an American bi-monthly music magazine, published in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1986 to 1989.
The magazine originated during the heralded 1986 "Class of '55" recording session in Memphis with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins. Producer Chips Moman asked James L. Dickerson, a reporter with The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis, if he would create a magazine that could be used as part of a sales package for a telemarketing campaign for the album. Dickerson agreed to do it without fee if Moman would allow him to name the magazine, copyright it, and use it to launch a bi-monthly music magazine. Moman agreed, and the magazine was named Nine-O-One Network, the name derived from Memphis's telephone area code, 901. Dickerson resigned from The Commercial Appeal to publish the magazine so that he would not have a conflict of interest.
The first subscription check to arrive in the mail came from Cash. Soon afterward a subscription check arrived from Lewis.
By the end of the first year, the full-color, slick paper magazine had newsstand circulation in fourteen states. By the end of 1987 it was sold on newsstands in all 50 states and throughout Canada, and in selected cities in Portugal, Japan, Australia and the Soviet Union. The distributor was Capital Distribution Co. of Derby, Connecticut. At its peak, the magazine had a circulation of 100,000 which made it the third-largest music magazine in the United States, behind Rolling Stone and Spin.
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