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Old 07-11-2016, 13:10
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Is it one of those where you have to remember to cancel before the end otherwise you get charged full whack,
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:11
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Is it one of those where you have to remember to cancel before the end otherwise you get charged full whack,
I think so, I always cancel as soon as I've done it lol.
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:19
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I think so, I always cancel as soon as I've done it lol.
Makes sense
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:32
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yes you get a letter saying when your pound will be deducted and then when the full whack goes out cancel before then but not too far away or youll miss out on copies
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Old 07-11-2016, 18:50
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Old 07-11-2016, 19:20
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That Sunday People magazine was good. Only trouble was the Saturday listings were usually incomplete.
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Old 07-11-2016, 19:43
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That Sunday People magazine was good. Only trouble was the Saturday listings were usually incomplete.
Saturday listings are normally incomplete now in Sunday newspapers as they're generally printed overseas a week early to save on printing costs.

As for why listings mags come out on Tuesday when they're online the previous Thursday. A website just needs the listings added and put online and it's ready for people to look at, magazines need the listings pages, features and ads putting together and even though that's all ready by Thursday/Friday, they then need multiple print runs for the various regional editions and distributing around the country. London editions are usually available before all the others as they're used as the base region so get an earlier print run (and if they're also printed near London have less distance to travel to the point of sale).
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Old 07-11-2016, 19:51
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Whilst we're on the subject of publication/issue dates we are aware now of the tv magazines coming out earlier from the end of November in the run up to Christmas. This is a pattern that has only come about in the last few years, years ago it was only the Christmas double issue that came out earlier. Now it's a common sight to see a plethora of mags with different banner dates on sale from the end of Nov/early Dec.
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Old 07-11-2016, 20:14
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Whilst we're on the subject of publication/issue dates we are aware now of the tv magazines coming out earlier from the end of November in the run up to Christmas. This is a pattern that has only come about in the last few years, years ago it was only the Christmas double issue that came out earlier. Now it's a common sight to see a plethora of mags with different banner dates on sale from the end of Nov/early Dec.
I guess it is printing demands, but with how things are printed these days, it could be more normal.

I do know around the holiday period the schedules are realised earlier
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Old 07-11-2016, 21:10
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I guess it is printing demands, but with how things are printed these days, it could be more normal.

I do know around the holiday period the schedules are realised earlier
The Radio Times has always come out early in the run up to Christmas even back in the 80s - they use to bring forward an edition by a day to a Monday , then the following Saturday before the Christmas issue arrived around the following Thursday

We always had to have a second delivery for the Rt and Tv Times before 1991 as we had hundreds of copies of each
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Old 07-11-2016, 21:29
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The Radio Times has always come out early in the run up to Christmas even back in the 80s - they use to bring forward an edition by a day to a Monday , then the following Saturday before the Christmas issue arrived around the following Thursday

We always had to have a second delivery for the Rt and Tv Times before 1991 as we had hundreds of copies of each
Been a weird day on this thread it has exploded
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Old 07-11-2016, 22:15
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I know this thread is turning into a Christmas listings magazine discussion thread rather than a general one as I think was the OP's intention, but does anybody remember when back in the 1970s (for a few years at least) the double issue of the TV Times used to have a weird "second cover" halfway through the magazine? It looked for all the world like it was a new issue for the second week, with its own cover for the New Year programmes, just without a price on it. It was like they expected you to detach it into a separate magazine, only then the whole thing would have fallen apart...
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Old 07-11-2016, 22:24
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I know this thread is turning into a Christmas listings magazine discussion thread rather than a general one as I think was the OP's intention, but does anybody remember when back in the 1970s (for a few years at least) the double issue of the TV Times used to have a weird "second cover" halfway through the magazine? It looked for all the world like it was a new issue for the second week, with its own cover for the New Year programmes, just without a price on it. It was like they expected you to detach it into a separate magazine, only then the whole thing would have fallen apart...
Yes you used to get to that fold, you either got the staple point stabbed into your finger, or the whole thing would fall apart
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Old 08-11-2016, 15:46
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Whilst we're on the subject of publication/issue dates we are aware now of the tv magazines coming out earlier from the end of November in the run up to Christmas. This is a pattern that has only come about in the last few years, years ago it was only the Christmas double issue that came out earlier. Now it's a common sight to see a plethora of mags with different banner dates on sale from the end of Nov/early Dec.
I think the reason for the earlier release dates of TV magazines in the run up to Christmas is because the channels confirm their listings online earlier than normal. Normally the schedules are confirmed on DigiGuide every Thursday but from early November the listings are confirmed on the Monday/Tuesday instead.
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Old 08-11-2016, 21:45
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I know this thread is turning into a Christmas listings magazine discussion thread rather than a general one as I think was the OP's intention, but does anybody remember when back in the 1970s (for a few years at least) the double issue of the TV Times used to have a weird "second cover" halfway through the magazine? It looked for all the world like it was a new issue for the second week, with its own cover for the New Year programmes, just without a price on it. It was like they expected you to detach it into a separate magazine, only then the whole thing would have fallen apart...
Talking of the TV Times do any of you remember when the TV Times relaunched as a super glossy, feature laden "TV Times Magazine"? It was all soft focus on the front cover, more pages and revised layout etc... Can't remember the date - early 1980s perhaps? Before "listings deregulation" so it was only ITV listings.
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Old 08-11-2016, 22:12
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Talking of the TV Times do any of you remember when the TV Times relaunched as a super glossy, feature laden "TV Times Magazine"? It was all soft focus on the front cover, more pages and revised layout etc... Can't remember the date - early 1980s perhaps? Before "listings deregulation" so it was only ITV listings.
Autumn 1981 if I remember rightly, just a year or so before they added Channel 4. As I recall, the TV premiere of Jaws on ITV - six years on! - was featured in the first week of the new format.

The masthead went from being all on one line to being a blocky logo with "Times" superimposed over "TV", and that's basically how it remains today although it's now italicised.

I think they dropped the "Magazine" suffix after only two or three years, but I'd have to look at pics of the Christmas covers to be sure...
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Old 08-11-2016, 22:28
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Im glad this forum is being used, finding some stuff on here I didn't realise and have been reading the TV Times and Radio Times since about 1981.

Back then I did prefer when you would get 2 magazines, maybe it is me being gready
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Old 09-11-2016, 14:21
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Autumn 1981 if I remember rightly, just a year or so before they added Channel 4. As I recall, the TV premiere of Jaws on ITV - six years on! - was featured in the first week of the new format.

The masthead went from being all on one line to being a blocky logo with "Times" superimposed over "TV", and that's basically how it remains today although it's now italicised.

I think they dropped the "Magazine" suffix after only two or three years, but I'd have to look at pics of the Christmas covers to be sure...
Thanks for that - memories indeed! I thought the "Magazine" only lasted a couple of years. I wondered at the time if they were trying to "copy" Radio Times and make the publication a bit more of a heavyweight.

As for Jaws I do remember it being on a midweek night (around 7.20/7.30?) and us all talking about it at school before, then of course the next day! Big ratings for it too.

Im glad this forum is being used, finding some stuff on here I didn't realise and have been reading the TV Times and Radio Times since about 1981.

Back then I did prefer when you would get 2 magazines, maybe it is me being gready
Yes, enjoying this thread too. I did enjoy getting the 2 magazines every week too, all very civilized and simple - pre Sky and digital channel tv days, happy days indeed - but tv (and tv listings mags for as long as they are still being published) will never go back to those days...

It will be interesting to see the tv mag landscape over the next few years. I wonder how many will merge/close as circulations continue to fall? How many years are there left in these old dogs? Although the title still has clout I fear for the likes of the TV Times - it's now part of Time Inc. (who will close mags if they're not performing - e.g. Essentials (ladies mag) - closing next month after being around since 1988) and seems to be in the "middle ground" - not at the budget end and not at the top end (Radio Times).
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Old 09-11-2016, 14:58
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I have to say being younger I've never actually bought a Radio Times, I tend to use the free magazine in the paper. I do buy 3 copies of TV Choice at Christmas though.
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Old 09-11-2016, 15:49
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I have to say being younger I've never actually bought a Radio Times, I tend to use the free magazine in the paper. I do buy 3 copies of TV Choice at Christmas though.
I can see where you are coming from - would save around 58p-£1.80 + a week not buying a guide! And if you buy a newspaper then that's a bonus.

For me I stopped buying newspapers a while back, now get my news online (though I appreciate newspapers can still contain many great articles and features to be read at leisure) so buying a newspaper on a Saturday is not worth it for me...

Most Saturdays I am away and out and about - now you could argue I could use the EPG on a Friday night to record Saturday's programmes and then use the newspaper guide for the rest of the week (marking the programmes to watch) but I would rather pay the money for the tv guide earlier in the week then plan my viewing well in advance (and not miss any good looking Saturday shows) and also maybe come across programmes featured in the tv mag I might otherwise have missed (especially comparing to an EPG).
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Old 09-11-2016, 18:01
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I remember the first Christmas 1991 when they could list all channels the chaos - the once a year buyers not understanding that now the Radio Times had ITV and that Tv Times had BBC so for many they still went for both

From 1982 to 1991 Here in Wales the Radio Times was only allowed to publish Welsh language programmes for S4C while TV Times had a separate little pull out called SBEC which carried all S4C programmes English and Welsh
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Old 10-11-2016, 10:12
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I remember the first Christmas 1991 when they could list all channels the chaos - the once a year buyers not understanding that now the Radio Times had ITV and that Tv Times had BBC so for many they still went for both

From 1982 to 1991 Here in Wales the Radio Times was only allowed to publish Welsh language programmes for S4C while TV Times had a separate little pull out called SBEC which carried all S4C programmes English and Welsh
For a long while I remember the Radio Times having a banner above its front title along the lines of "BBC ITV C4 C5 SATELLITE" or words to that effect.
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Old 10-11-2016, 10:40
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On he future of the TV Magazines, long term I see a bleak future.

The Likes of Radio Times and TV Times are available digitally, Which is how I get them gives you extra features.

At the moment we are in a middle of a generation, you have the older people say mid 50s onwards, who I guess would buy the magazine in paper form, And the rest I guess buy digitally, or use there EPG.

Must be a reason why they often offer 12 weeks at a pound a time
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Old 10-11-2016, 12:15
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TV Times only became a national magazine in September, 1968. Before then many of the ITV companies had published their own listings magazines. But in 1968 TV Times began publishing 14 different regional editions under the auspices of Independent Television Publications owned by the companies.
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Old 10-11-2016, 12:36
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found it - a website with archive TV Times

http://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/the-tv-times-archive.php
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