The ''International Television & Video Almanac'' is an annual

almanac An almanac (also spelled ''almanack'' and ''almanach'') is an annual publication listing a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and othe ...

of the television and video industry that has been published under various titles since 1929.

History

The almanac was first published as ''The Motion Picture Almanac'' in 1929, edited and compiled by the staff of Martin Quigley's motion picture

trade journal A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for this ...

, ''

Exhibitors Herald-World The ''Motion Picture Herald'' was an American film industry trade paper published from 1931 to December 1972.Anthony Slide, ed. (1985)''International Film, Radio, and Television Journals'' Greenwood Press. p. 242. It was replaced by the ''QP Herald ...

''. It became the ''International Motion Picture Almanac'' in 1936, then the ''Motion Picture and Television Almanac'' and subsequently the ''International Television Almanac''. It has been published by the

Quigley Publishing Company Martin Joseph Quigley Sr. (May 6, 1890 – May 4, 1964)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American publisher, editor and film magazine journalist. He founded '' Exhibitors Herald'', which became an ...

since inception.British Library
Retrieved 18 May 2017. File:The Motion Picture Almanac 1929.jpg, The first edition of ''The Motion Picture Almanac'', 1929. File:International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38.jpg, Title page of the ''International Motion Picture Almanac'', 1937–38.

References

External links

''The Motion Picture Almanac'', 1929.''International Motion Picture Almanac'', 1937-38.
{{Italic title Annual publications Television industry Film industry Almanacs Publications established in 1929