Tipsbladet
{{Short description|Weekly sports magazine in Denmark}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
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| founder = Elwin Hansen
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| based = Copenhagen
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Tipsbladet is a weekly sports magazine focusing on football which has been in circulation since 1948. It the oldest football magazine in Scandinavia and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
History and profile
Tipsbladet was founded by Elwin Hansen in 1948. The magazine, published on a weekly basis,{{cite book|title=Europa World Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA1439|location=London; New York|year=2004|publisher=Europa Publications
|isbn=978-1-85743-254-1|page=1439}} is based in Copenhagen.{{cite web|title=TIPS-bladet|url=http://www.eusm.eu/magazine/tips.htm
|work=European Sports Media|accessdate=29 May 2016}} The publisher of the weekly is TIPS-bladet A/S.{{cite web|title=Company Overview of TIPS-bladet A/S|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=45735342|work=Bloomberg|access-date=29 May 2016}} As of 2015 Troels Bager Thogersen was the editor-in-chief of the magazine,{{cite news|author=Sean Ingle|title=How Midtjylland took the analytical route towards the Champions League|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/27/how-fc-midtjylland-analytical-route-champions-league-brentford-matthew-benham|access-date=29 May 2016|date=27 July 2015}} which exclusively focuses on national Danish football leagues.{{cite book|editor1=Alexandra Schwell|editor2=Nina Szogs|year=2015
|editor3=Malgorzata Kowalska|editor4=Michał Buchowski|title=New Ethnographies of Football in Europe: People, Passions, Politics|page=169
|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OG7-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA169|isbn=978-1-137-51698-5
|chapter=Being a Football Kid. Football as a Mediatised Play Practice|author=Stine Liv Johansen}}
On 5 October 2012 Tipsbladet became the Friday edition of the newspaper Ekstra Bladet.{{cite news|title=Ekstra Bladet / Tipsbladet|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/inma-awards-uploads/39E5850F40DF4599A8F35096868A5768.pdf|year=2013|access-date=29 May 2016
|work=INMA}} Then it began to be published as a section of its Tuesday and Friday issues.{{cite journal|author1=Gertrud Pfister
|author2=Verena Lenneis|author3=Svenja Mintert|title=Female fans of men's football – a case study in Denmark|journal=Soccer & Society|year=2013
|volume=14|issue=6|page=852 |doi=10.1080/14660970.2013.843923|s2cid=145501859}} In September 2023, it was announced Tipsbladet had been acquired by the Copenhagen-headquartered digital sports media group, Better Collective, for €6.5 million.{{Cite news|author=Jonny Whitfield|url=https://www.intergameonline.com/igaming/news/better-collective-acquiring-tipsbladet-for-65m|date=18 September 2023|title=Better Collective acquiring Tipsbladet for €6.5m|work=Intergame}}
In 1975 Tipsbladet sold 32,380 copies.{{cite book|author=Aage Erhardtsen|title=Evolution of concentration and competition in the Danish newspaper and magazine sector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCc-AAAAMAAJ|location=Brussels|date=May 1978|isbn=9789282504635
|publisher=Commission of the European Communities}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.tipsbladet.dk/}}
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Category:1948 establishments in Denmark
Category:Association football magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1948
Category:Magazines published in Copenhagen
Category:Newspaper supplements
Category:Weekly magazines published in Denmark
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