Television Listings Magazine Research

TV listings in the UK are the lists of programmes that will air on television during that particular day or week. In March 1991, the monopoly on listings magazines ended and the market became open for other TV listing magazines. Prior to 1991 there were two prominent magazines which included the Radio Times (1923) for BBC and TV Times for ITV and Channel 4 (1953). More TV listings magazines become prominent such as TV Quick, Whats on TV, etc.  During the 1990's Whats on TV was Britains best selling TV listings magazine. However in the 2008 TV Choice achieved higher circulation as it has a similar design but lower price. In the past these lists where in chronological order due to the fact there were only a few channels at the time as the only medium was paper. In contemporary society there are over 600 channels in the UK alone, therefore the internet offers TV listings based on the large scale increase of television channels as the approach to TV listings is changing.