TV Listings war breaks out

What's on TV has fired the first shot in a new TV Listings war, cutting it's cover price by 10p to 35p. TV Choice has now followed suit, undercutting them to 30p.

Radio Times bosses aren't happy, saying it'll take any profit out of the TV Listings industry, and claiming that newsagents will have to sell three copies of What's on TV to make as much as they do on one copy of Radio Times. Then again, Radio Times does cost 93p.

So do you still buy TV guides - or get the free ones out of the papers.

Although they frustrate me with their blanket EastEnders coverage - even though it's been crap for over 2 years - What's on TV is far superior to TV Choice out of the cheap mags.

Traditionally I've read TV Times, but love the sarcastic way TV Quick write their listings (are they done by Harry Hill?) - while at the higher end of the market I prefer The Total TV Guide to Radio Times.

Out of the newspapers - the Sunday magazines are generally crap, but the Sun's TV Mag is pretty good on a Saturday with a decent listings layout too.

i always have we love tv in the mirror. at christmas i have tv guide.

At our house we usually buy TV Quick, which to be honest I cannot stand as it seems to be more of a poor man's celebrity magazine with TV listings and a huge bias to Eastenders too. If it's up to me I usually buy the TV Times, which is pretty good as it has a fair mix. Radio Times I only buy every now and again, depending on what features come with it, as it is very costly, but same may say it is worth it, as it is very in-depth and doesn't bias Soaps for it's front cover.

My mum gets it out the papers,but me and dad sneak the main ones sometimes!Whats on TV better than TV Choice?TVCh have half as much EE as Whats on TV,and WOT didn't do a good job at Christmas either with christmas pages!

Night and Day is a great Sunday mag and the channel logo's in a few years are going to be good!

I buy Radio Times at Xmas and Easter for the features and as a bit of a tradition really beacuse my Mum always bought it then. But I rarely look at a listings mag (even the free newspaper ones).

Most of my programme selection comes from either channel surfing or placing it in the Sky Planner following a trailer (I suppose trailers do have their uses then....even if they can be annoying in the middle of programmes).

I buy the Radio Times.

Do any of the other magazines have listings for Sky Travel in them? Only it's a channel I'd like listings for but RT doesn't have it. Maybe there should be a website somewhere which tells you which channels each magazine lists?

Well I prefer TV Choice over Whats on TV. The listings and soap guide in TV Choice are so much better than WOT.

I tend to alternate which guide I get, some weeks II get TV Quick, some weeks TV Choice and some weeks TV Times, I very rarely get WOT as I dont like the EE bias. I agree about the comments in the listings are great in TV Quick.

As well as those I get every issue of All About Soap, Soaplife and the Mirror's Saturday TV Guide We Love Tellie!

whats wrong with you? The best guide you can get is radio times. The one time i got "tv quick" it was full of gosip and terrible reviews. The radio times gives you an easiy layout with detailed reviews. I've had it for years

Why pay 90p or however much it is when you can get a better soap guide and listings for a third of the price in TV Choice. Also TV Choice give more Corrie covers than any other tv guide (apart from maybe TV Times)

What's on TV is in my opinion the best of the cheap listings mags, if you ignore the fact that they put EastEnders on the cover every week, the rest of it is laid out well.

You can tell the decision for TV Choice to go lower was last minute as WOT are advertising their mag as the cheapest. Apparantly WOT are in 1st place but were losing 'buy the cheapest' type readers to 3rd placed TV Choice.

TV Times has gone downhill a bit, they use a horrible huge font in their listings meaning there is hardly any room for a description, plus with the Yorkshire Tyne Tees edition now also including Granada and Central, the 7.30pm programme takes up loads of space.

I buy Radio Times at Xmas but the rest of the time it's a bit too up market for my liking, with only a sarcastic soap page and big features about a documentary on BBC4!

The Total TV Guide has listings for Sky Travel.

I know! I saw it this morning and thought 'they've put the price up' in complete horror and shock! Then I had a closer look at both TV Mags and realised that they had droped TV Choice price by 5p, making it now 30p, and What's On TV also by 5p, which now makes it 35p! I reckon that TV Choice made the price cut first then What's On TV realised, we have to pull our price down too!