ABC Consumer January – June 2015: TV Listings

Newsline is now reporting on combined print and digital (gross) figures for all magazine brands, as this is now ABC’s “headline figure”.

Although the separate figures for print and digital are revealed in the charts below, all copy will only reference combined data.

While TV can do no wrong, apparently TV listings magazines can – with the latest ABC figures suggesting that the nation is growing bored of looking at what’s on (most probably because it’s either a repeat or the 1,678th series of Big Brother).

The only title up over the period was front-runner TV Choice – although by just 0.8%, which is an indication of how the rest of the titles fared.

Perhaps because the ability to write new soap story-lines has reached a plateau, All About Soap recorded the biggest decline, down -16.4% period on period (PoP) and -23.5% year on year (YoY), while Inside Soap was down -6.5% PoP and Soaplife down -5.8% PoP. The latter two titles also recorded greater declines over the year.

A little further up the table, TV Times was down -10.4% over the period; however, remained comfortably ahead of TV & Satellite Week as the fourth most popular TV listings mag.

As per usual, What’s On TV and Radio Times took the second and third spots.