Telva

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| frequency = Monthly

| circulation = 113,745 (2019)

| category = Women's magazine
Lifestyle magazines

| company = RCS Media Group

| publisher = Unidad Editorial Socieda de Revistas SL

| founded = {{start date and age|1963}}

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| country = Spain

| based = Madrid

| language = Spanish

| website = [http://www.telva.com/ Telva]

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Telva is a Spanish language monthly women's magazine published in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest and earliest women's magazines in the country.{{cite journal|author1=Ana Almansa-Martínez|author2=Ruth Gómez de Travesedo-Rojas|title=Stereotypes about women in Spanish high-end women's magazines during the economic crisis|journal=Revista Latina de Comunicación Social|date=2017|volume=72|pages=608–628|doi=10.4185/RLCS-2017-1182|doi-access=free|hdl=10630/35474|hdl-access=free}}

History and profile

Telva was started in October 1963.{{cite web|title=Telva|url=http://www.publicitas.com/en/spain/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/telva/?PARAM1=UO4TM2#.VWgoymTtmko|work=Publicitas|access-date=29 May 2015}}{{cite web|title=Spanish Dress|url=http://fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/clothing-around-world/spanish-dress|work=Fashion History|access-date=15 June 2015}} During its initial phase, the magazine was controlled by Opus Dei.{{cite book|editor1=Teresa Ortiz-Gómez|editor2=María Jesús Santesmases

|title=Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-5404-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtCpBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|year=2014|page=143|location=Farnham, Surrey|author=Agata Ignaciuk|display-authors=et. al.|chapter=Doctors, women and the circulation of knowledge of oral contraceptives in Spain, 1960s-1970s}} More specifically, the publisher of the magazine was owned by Opus Dei and had a conservative political stance.

Pilar Salcedo held the position of director of Telva from its founding in October 1963 to 1970.{{Cite magazine|author=Cesar Suarez |url=https://www.telva.com/2015/06/29/estilo_de_vida/1435572353.html|title=Fallece Pilar Salcedo, primera directora de TELVA|date=29 June 2015|magazine=Telva}} Covadonga O'Shea became the editor in 1970 who had worked as deputy director after leaving education with a degree.{{Cite news|author=Iker Seisdedos|date=19 February 2006|title=Empezar desde cero|language=es|work=El País|access-date=28 September 2020|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2006/02/19/eps/1140334020_850215.html}} Following the death of Franco in 1975 the Spanish institutions began to take part in democratic transition, but Telva did not change its ultra conservative stance.{{cite book|editor1=Ann-Katrin Gembries|editor2=Theresia Theuke|editor3=Isabel Heinemann|year=2018|title=Children by Choice?: Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5NdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA136|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-052449-9|page=136|author=Agata Ignaciuk|chapter=Paradox of the pill: Oral contraceptives in Spain and Poland (1960s-1970s)|location=Berlin; Boston, MA}} For instance, it continued to oppose the legalization of abortion which was criticised by a feminist magazine, Vindicación Feminista.{{cite book|editor1=Marlis Hellinger|editor2=Hadumod Bußmann|title=Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men|publisher=John Benjamins|year=2001|isbn=978-90-272-1843-8|location=Amsterdam

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUDf58WaqiUC&pg=PA254|chapter=Gender in Spanish: Tradition and innovation|author=Uwe Kjær Nissen

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The magazine was part of Recoletos group until February 2007 when the company was acquired by RCS Media Group.{{cite news|title=Italy's RCS MediaGroup acquires Spain's Recoletos|url=http://www.ifra.net/wiki/italys-rcs-mediagroup-acquires-spains-recoletos|access-date=29 May 2015

|work=IFRA|date=7 February 2007}}{{cite web|title=Telva Overview|url=http://www.rcsmediagroup.it/en/brand/telva/|work=RCS Media Group|access-date=29 May 2015}}{{cite web|title=Rcs Mediagroup Spa (RCS:BrsaItaliana)|work=Bloomberg Business|access-date=29 May 2015|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=RCS:IM}} It is published by Unidad Editorial Socieda de Revistas SL on a monthly basis and features articles on fashion, beauty, and lifestyle. Its headquarters is in Madrid. The monthly has several annual supplements.

The price of the magazine was 35 Pesetas in the mid-1970s.{{cite thesis|author=Kathryn L. Mahaney|title=Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition|location=City University of New York|page=100|degree=PhD|year=2018

|url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2713|archive-date=15 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415055518/https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2713/}} In 2006 Telva sold 174,436 copies.{{cite web|title=Telva and telva.com|url=http://www.osp-uk.com/OliverSmith/osp.nsf/ArchivedNewsInFrame/EA7BBF780C8A56108025737600533743?OpenDocument|work=OSP|access-date=29 May 2015|date=16 October 2007}} The circulation of the magazine was 174,750 copies in 2009, making it the second best-selling women's monthly magazine in Spain.{{cite web|title=World magazine trends 2010/2011. Spain|work=FIPP|access-date=29 May 2015|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|archive-date=21 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621140534/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|url-status=dead}} It was 181,434 copies in 2010, and it grew to 188,524 copies in 2011.{{cite web|title=Top 50 Magazines|work=IFABC|access-date=29 May 2015

|date=30 April 2014|url=http://ifabc.org/site/assets/media/Top-50-magazines-30042014.xlsx}} The magazine sold 183,336 copies in 2012. Between July 2012 and June 2013, ita circulation was 162,101 copies. In 2019 Telva sold 113,745 copies.{{cite web|url=https://www.internationalmediasales.net/international/portfolio/detail/telva/|title=Telva (print)|work=International Media Sales|access-date=4 May 2020}}