ABC Consumer July-Dec 2013: TV Listings
The latest ABC Consumer results reveal that the TV Listings market was down -4.5% year on year (YoY).
H Bauer Publishing’s TV Choice was the only title to record both a period and yearly increase in average monthly circulation – up 7.2% PoP and 11.8% YoY to secure an extra 145,000 copies.
The period increases elsewhere in the sector were marginal, however, with TV Times up 2.6% PoP, Radio Times up 2.3% PoP and Inside Soap up 1.7% PoP.
Not such good news for IPC Media’s Soaplife and TV Easy, which were down -10.1% PoP and -7.9% PoP, respectively.
While TV Easy suffered the biggest yearly percentage loss of all the TV Listings titles, down -24.4% YoY, it was What’s On TV that dropped the greatest number of average monthly copies – down almost 173,000 – followed by Radio Times which lost almost 62,000.
| Title | Publisher | Jul-Dec 12 | Jul-Dec 13 | Actual Change | YoY % Ch | Jan-Jun 13 | PoP % Ch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 4,444,772 | 4,245,779 | 198993 | -4.5 | 4,104,700 | ||
| TV Choice | H Bauer Publishing | 1,230,076 | 1,374,813 | 144,737 | 11.8 | 1,282,276 | 7.2 |
| What’s On TV | IPC Media Ltd | 1,222,242 | 1,049,558 | -172,684 | -14.1 | 1,083,198 | -3.1 |
| Radio Times | Immediate Media Company | 893,512 | 831,591 | -61,921 | -6.9 | 812,543 | 2.3 |
| TV Times | IPC Media Ltd | 275,526 | 254,376 | -21,150 | -7.7 | 247,896 | 2.6 |
| TV & Satellite Week | IPC Media Ltd | 165,735 | 155,138 | -10,597 | -6.4 | 159,665 | -2.8 |
| Inside Soap | Hearst Magazines UK | 150,765 | 145,082 | -5,683 | -3.8 | 142,682 | 1.7 |
| TV Easy | IPC Media Ltd | 148,759 | 112,472 | -36,287 | -24.4 | 122,116 | -7.9 |
| Total TV Guide | H Bauer Publishing | 121,169 | 109,741 | -11,428 | -9.4 | 110,304 | -0.5 |
| Soaplife | IPC Media Ltd | 73,841 | 67,891 | -5,950 | -8.1 | 75,533 | -10.1 |
| All About Soap | Hearst Magazines UK | 74,076 | 63,544 | -10,532 | -14.2 | 68,487 | -7.2 |
| RTE Guide | RTE | 61,881 | 57,062 | -4,819 | -7.8 | n/a | n/a |
| TV Now! | Barndee Publishing | 27,190 | 24,511 | -2,679 | -9.9 | n/a | n/a |
