Media Monitor

Media Monitor is an adzine that was published by Ann Teitelbaum and Dar F.
Media Monitor was a subscription/pay adzine that published from 1992 through 1997. Like many other adzines it contained fanzine listings for multiple fandoms and all genres (slash and gen), along with wanted ads and notifications of fannish events such as conventions.
Each issue of the Media Monitor averaged between 50 and 60 pages. In 1993 the cost was $5/issue, $20/year.
Media Monitor took a 2-year hiatus in the after the publication of issue #10 in winter of 1994 and returned in summer of 1996, this time including Internet listings such as the first Due South FTP fan fiction site Hexwood, along with information about mailing lists, newsgroups and websites.
It also began offering the adzine in electronic format which helped overseas fans who had to pay extra postage.
It ceased publication in 1997 with issue #14.
==Description==
Description of the adzine from Plastic Cow Productions:
==Ratings==
From the second issue: 
 
==Fandom's Transition To The Internet==
From a 1996 issue:
The "Internet" guides sections of the Media Monitor covered a wide range of topics, all with the aim of education the fan to the new communication medium. For instance the 1996 issue explained mailing lists: 
A 1996 Internet section ends with this warning: 
In a 1997 introduction, the editors stopped sending out subscriptions via email for people who did not live overseas. 
==Covers ==
File:mediamonitor1.jpg|issue #1, February 1992, front cover, 58 pages
Image:mediamonitormay1992.jpg|thumb|issue #2, May 1992, 79 pages
File:Media issue 7 cover small.jpg|issue #7, August 1993, front cover, 68 pages
File:Media 7 back cover. smalljpg.jpg|issue #7, August 1993, back cover
File:mediamonitor10.jpg|front cover of issue #10, Winter 1994, 61 pages
File:Media Monitor 1996 small.jpeg|issue #11, Summer 1996, front cover, 96 pages
File:Media 11 back redacted.jpg|issue #11, back cover
File:Media 12 cover small.jpg|issue #12, Winter 1997, front cover, 60 pages
File:Media 12001 back small.jpg|issue #12, back cover
File:Media 13 cover small.jpg|issue #13, Spring 1997, front cover, 120 pages
File:Media 13 cover back redacted.jpg|issue #13, back cover
File:Media 14 cover small.jpg|issue #14, Fall 1997, front cover
File:Media 14 back redacted.jpg|issue #14, back cover
==Reviews==
* From 1992: "Easily the flashiest of the adzines, it is the only one to feature a premiering section and a ratings scale for each fanzine. Media Monitor takes the best from Popstand and Zine Scene and adds in some new ideas, but is nowhere near as complete as Zine Scene. Media Monitor is new, so on-time schedule of issues has yet to be foreseen. (Note: we do agent this for Ann and Darlene.)" comment by Bill Hupe in The Trekzine Times v.2 n.2/3
* From 1993: "I like this one. It's by the gang who brings you Frisky Business. The ads are separated onto different colored paper by whether the zine is premiering, published, or proposed, and there's categories for personals, fan-clubs, and misc. other stuff. Ads are free if you subscribe. The ads are alphabetical by fandom WITHIN each category, so you don't have to wade through the listings for an infinite number of Trek zines to find that lone S/H one." from a review posted to the Virgule-L mailing list
== References ==
Category:Multimedia Zines
Category:Resource Zines
Category:1990s
Category:1992 Zines