TV Choice

TV Choice
Editor-in-Chief Jon Peake
Categories TV magazines
Frequency weekly
Circulation 1,303,011 (ABC Jan – Jun 2014)[1]
Print and digital editions.
Publisher Bauer
Year founded 1999
First issue August 1999
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website TVChoiceMagazine.co.uk
ISSN 2044-7337

TV Choice is a British weekly TV listings magazine published by H. Bauer Publishing, the UK subsidiary of family-run German company Bauer Media Group.[2] It features weekly TV broadcast programming listings, running from Saturday to Friday, and goes on sale every Tuesday.[3] A double issue is released to cover the Christmas & New Year period at a higher price.

Overview

Launched in August 1999, the magazine includes features on the most watched UK TV shows, the very popular British soaps, as well as films, puzzles, crosswords, a letters page and prize competitions.

From 29 February 2012, the cover price was increased by 3p from 42p to 45p. On 9 March 2013 the cover price was reduced to 38p and the next week, 16 March 2013, to 20p, to compete with TV Pick, a new rival magazine produced by Northern & Shell.[4] For the issue dated 13 July 2013 the price returned to 38p, one week after TV Pick raised its price to 39p. In December 2013, the price rose again to 45p and in 2015 rose to 50p.

Circulation

In February 2008, TV Choice became the biggest selling (actively purchased) magazine of all categories in the UK, a position it has held ever since.[5] It sells over 1.2 million copies a week and has an adult readership of 1.8 million. It has a target market among C1 C2 young, mass market adults.[6]

Awards

TV Choice also has its own annual awards ceremony, the TV Choice Awards, awarded on the basis of a public vote by readers of TV Choice.

2009 Winners

2010 Winners

2011 Winners

2012 Winners

2013 Winners

2014 Winners

A photograph of a girl at bust length with long blonde hair and blue eyes facing right and looking left while smiling and wearing a red T-shirt and pink lipstick
Kirsty-Leigh Porter was named Best Soap Newcomer by TV Choice in 2014.

2015 Winners

2016 Winners

References

  1. ↑ "ABC Certificates and Reports: TV Choice". Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  2. ↑ – TV Choice information Media UK
  3. ↑ TV Choice Bauer Media
  4. ↑ Roy Greenslade. "TV listings magazines in price war". the Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Luft, Oliver. "Magazine ABCs: TV Choice tops 100 actively purchased". Press Gazette, 11 February 2010.
  6. ↑ "TV Choice – Key Facts". H Bauer Publishing.
  7. ↑ Published Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 5:29pm EDT (13 September 2011). "TV Choice Awards 2011 – The winners – TV News". Digital Spy. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
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