Radio Times

The Radio Times is really the only magazine I read every week. When you consider that I only watch the television for a couple of hours maximum a week, it seems a bit odd. It does say a lot for the way the magazine is put together though. It is called the Radio Times because when it was originally published there was no TV. It now covers both comprehensively. I find it a very interesting read. There is always at least one article in there that grabs my attention. It is laid out imaginatively and attractively with a good balance of pictures and text. The listings pages are logically and clearly displayed with a colour code to the days ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times (RT) has been around a long time and has seen many changes. It was first published in 1920 and is so called because the nation only had radio at that time. It wasn't until 1936 that we saw our first TV broadcast, which saw the first change to the Radio Times in that TV listings were included. As there was no ITV or BBC2 until much later, listings only included BB1. That said, programmes only ran from 3pm until the final programme, which was the news at 10pm. 1955 saw the launch of ITV and subsequently, the TV Times, which covered all ITV listings. It wasn't until 1991 that both magazines saw sense and decided to print TV listings for all the ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is a listings magazine, containing one week's worth of TV and radio listings. It is one of the most famous and long running of its kind. The one thing I hate about the Radio Times is the way it confuses me with the dates it runs. It comes out on a Tuesday, but contains listings for the following Saturday to the Friday. Because of that, you can often (if you're like me) ending up buying an edition that doesn't have listings in for the days you thought it did. It has to be said that many newspapers contain TV listings for 'free'. Perhaps the best of these is the Telegraphs 'review' mag on a Saturday. This contains all the listings and ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is a weekly magazine designed to bring the week's television, film and radio news to your door. These pages, moreover, cover a wide spectrum of channels - I believe that it advertises itself as covering over 400 channels, which is no small feat! So, the Radio Times contains the week's TV guide, together with recommended shows and the occasional feature article on said shows; radio listings; and films, including some reviews. In addition, further articles are embedded, covering various subject areas (usually TV-related) and are often written by a celebrity, e.g. Sandi Toksvig. These features can equally be focused upon actor/actress ...  Read the complete review

There are millions of people who buy Britian's best known Tv guide, Radio Times every week to plan their viewing and there's also a handful of people like me who but it just once a year, for the bumper two week christmas edition. The rest of the year I make do with flicking through teletext of looking in the paper as I don't have much time for watching TV, or even reading a TV guide. At christmas though I like to indulge in a good bit of lazy tele watching. (though the choice of what to watch is more often than not the cause of the christmas family bust up!) for this reason I like to know what's going to be on and when so I don't miss all those christmas ...  Read the complete review