RC Report: Latest Victim of the Economy (R.I.P.)
Just recieved my March, 2009 copy of RC REPORT, with the banners: "OUR FINAL AND "FAREWELL" ISSUE" and "So long, friends, and thanks for the ride."
Inside, Gordon Banks sites the loss of revenue from advertisers: seems the R/C companies are having a pretty tough time and are either scaling back advertising OR stopping it altogether. It seems that we modelers have substantially reduced out R/C related spending these past few months, and the industry is suffering as a result.
I've been a subscriber of RC REPORT from day 1, way back when it was just a newspaper in a brown bag. These last few years, I had just 2 subscriptions to R/C related magazines: Model Aviation (AMA) and RC REPORT.
Really sad to see this one go, and they probably have about as good a chance for a bailout as Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine.