Overall TV Listings magazines were down -4.5% year on year (YoY).
Though down both PoP -3.7% and YoY -5.7%, H Bauer Publishing’s magazine TV Choice remained in poll position.
What’s on TV kept its place in second position with a marginal 0.5% PoP increase in sales. The Radio Times followed in third, up 3.2% PoP.
RTE Guide had a difficult YoY period, suffering a -16.8% loss of sales. All About Soap were next to take the biggest YoY hit, -15.0%, followed by IPC Media Ltd’s Soaplife down -10.3% as well as taking the largest hit PoP with a -13.1% decrease in copies sold.
At the bottom of the table, TV Now! was the only magazine that experienced an increase in sales YoY albeit very small, up 0.1%.
| Title | Publisher | Jul-Dec 11 | Jul-Dec 12 | Actual Change | YoY % Ch | Jan-Jun 12 | PoP % Ch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TV Choice | H Bauer Publishing | 1,304,382 | 1,230,076 | -74,306 | -5.7 | 1,277,850 | -3.7 |
| What’s On TV | IPC Media Ltd | 1,253,697 | 1,222,242 | -31,455 | -2.5 | 1,215,609 | 0.5 |
| Radio Times | Immediate Media Company | 925,373 | 893,512 | -31,861 | -3.4 | 865,562 | 3.2 |
| TV Times | IPC Media Ltd | 294,765 | 275,526 | -19,239 | -6.5 | 265,550 | 3.8 |
| TV & Satellite Week | IPC Media Ltd | 173,474 | 165,735 | -7,739 | -4.5 | 168,630 | -1.7 |
| Inside Soap | Hearst Magazines UK | 157,413 | 150,765 | -6,648 | -4.2 | 154,657 | -2.5 |
| TV Easy | IPC Media Ltd | 150,405 | 148,759 | -1,646 | -1.1 | 148,664 | 0.1 |
| Total TV Guide | H Bauer Publishing | 122,927 | 121,169 | -1,758 | -1.4 | 121,052 | 0.1 |
| All About Soap | Hearst Magazines UK | 87,156 | 74,076 | -13,080 | -15.0 | 78,244 | -5.3 |
| Soaplife | IPC Media Ltd | 82,315 | 73,841 | -8,474 | -10.3 | 84,964 | -13.1 |
| RTE Guide | Raidio Teilifis Eireann | 74,381 | 61,881 | -12,500 | -16.8 | n/a | n/a |
| TV Now! | Barndee Publishing | 27,168 | 27,190 | 22 | 0.1 | n/a | n/a |
| Total | 4,653,456 | 4,444,772 | 208,684 | -4.5 | 4,380,782 |
Source: ABC
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