Best for Digital Listings?.. Probably ! (TV & Satellite Week)

Member Name: jaybee

Product:	TV & Satellite Week
Date:	19/11/00 (227 review reads)
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Advantages: Lists lots of channels

Disadvantages: Probably only for the SERIOUS Viewer.

TV and Satellite Week bills itself as “Best for Digital Listings” and they’re probably right.

The magazine contains weekly programme listings and schedules for a large number of satellite and terrestrial TV channels, in fact over sixty different channels are listed here.

A nice feature in this magazine is the “Evening-at-a-glance” feature, this lists 50 different channels in an easy to read one page format, that tells you what shows are on between 7pm through till 11.30pm.

If you watch a lot of movies on TV or satellite, then the information in here should be just about everything you need. All the Sky movie channels are listed along with the Pay per view channels. Film Four, U>direct, and Front Row (cable). There are also 4-5 pages in the magazine giving short reviews of a lot of the films (not all) that will be shown during the week.

Sports fans are also extremely well catered for. There’s a page or two, of short articles covering the major sporting events taking place that week, normally about the event, the venue, or the stars who will be playing or competing.

The weeks sporting events on TV and satellite are also listed alphabetically by Sports: so if you are a golf fan for instance, you can look under the Golf heading, to see exactly what programmes are on offer to you during the week. This is combined with a pretty comprehensive listing of programmes for SKY sports1, 2,3 And Sky Sports Extra, along with British Eurosport, MUTV, Onsport, and the Racing channel, so as you can see everything is basically covered.

The normal listings for BBC1, 2: your local ITV REGION, channel 4, and 5 are also all listed. There are also around 10 pages of features on programmes to watch during the upcoming week, 2-3 of these pages concentrate on the soaps, with an update on the current storylines.

Near the back of the magazine area couple of pages dedicated to foreign channels that
you will find on satellite. Programme listings cover 10 different channels including: VOX, ZDF, 3SAT, and others.

For a telly addict or somebody who likes to watch films on telly, then this magazine is definitely worth buying. On the other hand If your like me and only buy a magazine like this in case you want to know what’s on telly during the week (if you take a break from Dooyoo) then I’d probably say something like “What’s on TV would be a better option, as it would give you the information you need at less than half the price of this magazine.

For the more serious TV watcher, 80 pages full of programme schedules for around sixty plus channels, all for 82p every week can’t be bad.

Definitely a magazine for couch potatoes everywhere.

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