The phrase "a time when magazines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a specific period in history or culture that involves magazines, often in a nostalgic or reflective context.
Example: "There was a time when magazines were the primary source of information and entertainment for many households."
Alternatives: "an era when magazines" or "a period when magazines".
The news about it gave me a jolt of nostalgia for a time when magazines were everything.
Talk sought a general interest audience at a time when magazines, faced with declining readership, had begun steering toward the safer harbors of niche audiences.
At a time when magazines aimed at teenage girls gossip about the latest young male hotties, and display fashions draped over belly-baring female singers, Ms. Rubenstein has produced a magazine that is bracingly retro and surprisingly demure.
At a time when magazines are routinely accompanied by compact disks with music or computer software, it is easy to overlook how progressive Aspen was in packing its issues with the thin plastic records called flexidiscs and, in one instance, a reel of 8-millimeter film: a truly multimedia magazine.
Rolling Stone has published remarkable journalism by some of our best cultural critics discursive and brazen writing that would likely feel too indulgent to be published now but nonetheless remains thrilling to revisit, recalling, as it does, a time when magazines were strange and lawless.
It was a time when magazines were starting to decline and again I knew the industry I was in was changing.
The single- or dominating-sponsor approach is attractive to publishers at a time when magazine ad sales are falling.
And this at a time when magazine sales are really hurting.' British retail newsagents, who are often reluctant to allot shelf-space to any non-populist publication, have also been scrambling to satisfy waves of people wanting to get their hands on the £6.50 edition.
The obvious reason as to why this is is because it's right around the time when magazines start compiling gadget lists for their holiday guides.
Now, Bon Appétit is the biggest old-guard food magazine left standing, at a time when monthly magazines overall are struggling, but food, most definitely, is thriving.
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