Motor Cycle News

Motor Cycle News
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Bauer
PublisherRachael Beesley
EditorRichard Newland
Founded1955
HeadquartersPeterborough, England
Circulation85,651[1]
ISSN0027-1853
Websitewww.motorcyclenews.com

MCN or Motor Cycle News is a UK weekly motorcycling newspaper published by Bauer Consumer Media, based in Peterborough, United Kingdom. It claims to be "the world’s biggest weekly motorcycle newspaper".[2]

The title was founded in late 1955 as Motorcycle News by Cyril Quantrill, a former employee of Motor Cycling, and was sold to EMAP in 1956.[3] Bauer bought Emap's consumer media division in 2008.

The brand has expanded to include the MCN website, MCN Mobile, iPhone app, the 'MCN Compare' Insurance Comparison service, MCN London and Scottish Motorcycle Show and the MCN Live! at Skegness party weekend.

In 2009, average weekly circulation was 114,304 copies according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,[4] and 2010 it was 106,446 copies.[5]

The figure for 2018 was 56,839.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Standard Certificate of Circulation" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  2. ^ [1] www.sportsjournalists.co.uk Retrieved 24 March 2013
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Quantrill obituary was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Bauer Media Consumer Magazines: ABC Jan-Jun 2010" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Standard Certificate of Circulation" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. 17 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.