What common factors are found in the magazines Pro Wrestling Illustrated and The Friend?
Pro Wrestling Illustrated Pro Wrestling Illustrated ("PWI") is an American produced, internationally sold professional wrestling magazine that was founded in 1972. "PWI" is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and published by Kappa Publishing Group. The magazine is the longest currently published English language wrestling magazine. The "PWI" publishes monthly issues and annual special issues such as their "Almanac and Book of Facts".
Sponsor Magazine Sponsor Magazine was created by Norman R. Glenn for commercial broadcasting, radio and TV advertising buyers. The first issue of the magazine was published in November of 1946 and the last issue was published on December 28, 1964. For 18 years Sponsor was able to publish 18 volumes of their magazine totaling over 500 issues in all. Sponsor served as a monthly magazine for its first 4 years in circulation and later became a bimonthly magazine starting in January of 1949. It finally became a weekly magazine on October 27, 1956.