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This extensive collection of digital issues of the TV Times archive runs from 1955 to 2024. There are some missing issues, which readers should be aware of if they are hoping to see specific content from a particular week in history. These missing issues will be added to the collection when undamaged copies can be secured, processed and digitised.
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About
Welcome to TV Times digital archive. This is where you will find our back issues. Sadly there are some missing issues but we are doing our best to track them down and add them to this fabulous collection.
Britain’s best-loved TV magazine started way back in 1955, the same week ITV launched and the magazine provided the listings for this exciting new channel. In the beginning, TV Times only carried the listings for ITV and then Channel 4 schedules were added when it launched in 1982. Something big happened in 1991 and the TV listings market was deregulated, meaning that TV Times could now carry the listings for BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4. Channel 5 joined in 1997.
Through the years there have been many iconic cover stars: Bruce Forsyth, Tom Jones, Morecambe and Wise and Joanna Lumley to name but a few. This collection is a history of ITV’s early years and its many stars.
TV Times today looks very different from those first issues. Now we carry over 70 channels per day instead of just one. How times change. I hope you enjoy browsing this treasure trove.
Claire Ruck
Editor in Chief
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History
TV Times was launched on 22 September 1955, with the start of transmissions of the first ITV station, Associated-Rediffusion. Initially, the magazine was published only in the London area, carrying listings for Associated-Rediffusion (Rediffusion, London from 1964) on weekdays and ATV at weekends, but regional editions began to appear covering those ITV regional companies which did not opt to establish their own listings magazines. TV Times became a national magazine (except for the Channel Islands) from 21 September 1968.
During the late 1950s until the early 1980s, TV Times suffered frequent printing disputes that often meant emergency or special combined editions.
The magazine was branded as TV Times Magazine from 3 October 1981 until 6 October 1984, the premise being it contained more than simply television listings. From November 1982 onwards, it carried listings for Channel 4 and its Welsh equivalent, S4C. On 7 October 1989, the programme schedule pages were printed in full colour for the first time. When the television listings were deregulated on 1 March 1991, TV Times began carrying listings for the BBC’s television channels which, up to that point, had only been printed in the BBC’s official listings magazine, Radio Times. On 11 February 2006, the magazine was refreshed for a more modern look including the double-page highlights of programmes on all channels as well as radio and kids’ television listings were scrapped, increasing the publication’s emphasis on big-star interviews and soaps.
On 15 March 2022, the television listings were given a refreshed layout which is similar to Radio Times, TV & Satellite Week and What’s on TV. The changes included a return of radio schedules to the magazine after a 16-year absence.
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