TVTimes
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Editor | Ian Abbott |
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Categories | TV and Radio Listings |
Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 336,929[1] |
First issue | 22 September 1955 |
Company | IPC Media |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London |
Language | English |
Website | www.whatsontv.co.uk |
ISSN | 0962-1660 |
TVTimes is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom by IPC Media, a subsidiary of Time Warner. It is known for its access to television actors and their programmes. In 2006 it was refreshed for a more modern look, increasing its emphasis on big star interviews and soaps. TVTimes is positioned in the premium sector as a quality TV weekly magazine for all generations.
TVTimes belongs to IPC Media's family of television magazines, which form the sub-group TX. This includes What's on TV, TV Easy and TV & Satellite Week, as well as the soap bi-weekly Soaplife.
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[edit] Editions
TVTimes currently publishes listings for all major television channels. Before 1991 it published listings for ITV and (from 1982) Channel 4 only. Although every ITV region originally had its own version, there are now only four:
- England - All ITV and BBC regions in England & the Channel lslands
- Scotland - STV, ITV Border and BBC Scotland
- Wales - ITV Wales, S4C, BBC Wales
- Northern Ireland - UTV, BBC Northern Ireland, RTÉ and TV3
[edit] History
The magazine was launched in 1955, but became a national magazine only in 1968. Prior to 1968, several of the regional ITV companies - Westward Television, Scottish Television, Tyne Tees Television, Ulster Television, TWW and Teledu Cymru (and briefly WWN) - produced their own listings magazines. The Midlands originally had their own edition of TVTimes listing ATV and ABC programmes, but a separate listings magazine in the Midlands called TV World existed from 1964-68 before TVTimes went national. Until television listings were deregulated in 1991 the TVTimes was the only place where complete weekly listings of ITV programmes could be published.[2]
Channel Television continued to publish its own listings magazine until 1991 (it was feared that the company might go under without the revenue from its own magazine).
[edit] See also
- What's on TV magazine
[edit] References
- ^ ABC Summary Report - TV Times
- ^ "The TV-Listings Market: The Duopoly Strikes Back". The Economist. 1991-02-02. p. 53.
[edit] External links
- WhatsonTV.co.uk
- TVTimes Project - Database of TVTimes listings 1955 - 1985
- Almost every TVTimes cover from 1955-1980 plus TV World, Television Weekly etc etc
- TVTimes profile
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