RadioTimes
| RadioTimes
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| description | British television and radio program magazine |
| publishing company | since 2011: Immediate Media Company , until 2011: BBC |
| First edition | September 28, 1923 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Widespread edition | 900,000 copies |
| Web link | radiotimes.com |
| Article archive |
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk (until 2009) |
RadioTimes is a British program guide that has been published since 1923 .
history
Originally started as the BBC's own radio program magazine with the title The Radio Times and the subtitle The Official Organ of the BBC , it later also began providing information on television programs and became the world's first television program magazine in 1936. In 1960, television-related information was given priority over the radio program for the first time in the magazine. In the early 1990s, the British television program lists were deregulated, so that from then on a number of magazines competing with RadioTimes appeared. In 2011 the BBC sold RadioTimes to the publishing house Immediate Media Company , which in turn was taken over by the German media group Hubert Burda Media in January 2017 .
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of its publication, the Museum of London held an exhibition of several months in 2013 that showed the history of the magazine.
distribution
The widespread circulation of the magazine increased to just under 9 million by the 1950s. In 2016, the magazine was the third most popular paid TV program and was behind TV Choice and What's on TV in this ranking . That year, RadioTimes had a print run of 660,000 copies sold.
The 1988 Christmas issue sold 11,220,666 copies, making it the best-selling ever issue of a British magazine.
literature
- Tony Currie: The Radio Times Story , Kelly Publications 2001, ISBN 978-1903053096
- History of RadioTimes , in: BBC website
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Mark Duell: From EastEnders to Doctor Who and the World Cup to Wimbledon: Ninety years of broadcasting as told by covers of the Radio Times , in: Daily Mail, June 24, 2013, accessed on Feb. 8, 2019
- ↑ Hubert Burda Media takes over Immediate Media , press release from Hubert Burda Media , accessed on Feb. 8, 2019
- ↑ Mark Sweney: Radio Times likely to be bought by German media group , in: The Guardian , Dec. 19, 2016, accessed on Feb. 8, 2019
- ↑ History of RadioTimes , in: BBC website , accessed on Feb. 8, 2019