What's On TV have actually cut their price by 10p from 45p to 35p. I get WOTV every week and have done since about May 1995. I have kept every issue since then and I sometimes have a look at some of the old magazines - it's amazing how much TV has changed over the last 10 years and the number of new channels that have came and went!
I always get TV Choice becuase it has the clearest font and is the easiest to read. Most of the Saturday and Sunday paper TV mags are also just as good. I don't like the new design for the header of Radio Times. Their old early 70s one with the scriptly fancy typeface looked much more distinctive.
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!
what happened was last week Whats on TV said they would knock 10p off (to 35p) which made them 5p cheaper than TV Choice, then this week TV Choice have also knocked 10p off making them the cheapest mag again.
i cant understand why Whats on TV reduced their price in the first place they were already the clear market leader and surely they must have known Choice would move to undercut them. -unless thats what they were hoping-to lower Choice's profitability? Strange.
I always get TV Choice becuase it has the clearest font and is the easiest to read.
Yes I like that about TV Choice as well. Maybe if these mags werent so biased to certain programmes more people would buy them, if Zoe being pregnant in EE is good enough for a cover then why wasnt Katy being pregnant in Corrie or Debbie being pregnant in Emmerdale? They should have put schmichael from Corrie on the cover! Im surprised that they have reduced the price, its usually the other way around, they must be desperate for people to buy them, some of the tv mags should fold, there is far too many of them anyway.
On the subject of tv magazines, All About Soap has a new editor and the magazine this fortnight has a new look, IMO its the best magazine out of the soap ones.
Had the Radio Times for years, mainly due to the quality. It may cost 93p, but its miles ahead of the rest. Got TV Times free with my local paper on friday and for 80p, it was shocking! It looked like the ones you get free in the Saturday/Sunday papers!
So I see people base their entire opinions on tv guides on how much gossip there is on the soaps!? I watch soaps sometimes, but surely the whole point of watching them is not knowing whats going to happen next (which is what the cheap guides sort of give away.. ).
Shouldn't rating a good tv guide be based on good articles, detailed listings for all programmes (incl digital channel programme summaries) and some sort of radio listings?
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?
The Total TV Guide has listings for Sky Travel.
Thanks. I actually considered changing my mag today to Total because they had a 24 cover. But I went for RT as usual. RT seems to be the most detailed of the lot, points out handy repeats and interactive content.
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