TVTimes

TVTimes logo
Editor	Ian Abbott
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.

[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
• 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

[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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