TV listings (television listings, also sometimes called a TV guide or program/programme guide) are a timetable of television shows which indicate at what time and on what channel they are due to be broadcast. Since the early days of television, such listings have been printed in local newspapers, newspaper inserts, or magazines (including specialized listings magazines), but are now often viewed as electronic program guides available on set-top boxes.
Video TV listings
UK
On 1 March 1991, the monopoly on listings magazines ended and the market was opened up. Before this, there were two magazines on the market: Radio Times, began in 1923, for BBC listings and TV Times, began in 1955, for ITV and, from 1982, Channel 4 listings. A number of magazines appeared on the market at that time: TV Quick, What's on TV and the short-lived TV Plus. By the mid-1990s What's on TV was Britain's best-selling weekly magazine but in 2008 a rival publication, TV Choice (began in 1999 by Bauer Media Group) achieved a higher circulation. TV Choice has a similar design and format but at a lower price.
Traditionally these have been simple broadcast programming lists of what appears in chronological order on the various channels available, having been designed for an age in which there were only a few channels, and where the only medium was paper. Now there over 600 channels in the UK alone, the internet offers different formats and possibilities for TV listings (e.g. www.tvguide.co.uk), and television is starting to appear in both mobile and internet formats, so the whole approach to TV listings is changing.
Providers
The Press Association, Red Bee Media Broadcasting Dataservices, REDNI and DigiGuide are major providers of listings within the United Kingdom.
UK TV listings magazines
- Radio Times 1923-present Immediate Media Company (formerly BBC Magazines)
- TVTimes 1955-present Time Inc.
- TV Guide 1991-? Hearst Magazine UK
- TV Plus 1991
- TV Quick 1991-2010 H. Bauer
- What's on TV 1991-present Time Inc.
- Inside Soap 1992-present Hearst Magazines UK (formerly Nat Mags)
- TV & Satellite Week 1993-present Time Inc.
- Film & TV Week 1997 Time Inc.
- TV Choice 1999-present H. Bauer
- Heat 1999-present H. Bauer
- Total TV Guide 2003-present H. Bauer
- TV easy 2005-2014 Time Inc.
- TV Pick 2013 Northern & Shell
- In addition, most UK newspapers publish a full week's listings guide in their Saturday and Sunday editions.
Maps TV listings
References
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