ABC Consumer July – December 2014: TV Listings

For the second period Newsline is 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.

There was little change to the TV Listings sector in terms of rankings, however, there were some significant period and yearly declines in circulation across the 10 titles.

While print-only TV Choice maintained the top spot with a little under 1.27 million weekly copies sold, it was down -2.8% period on period (PoP) and -7.9% year on year (YoY).

A 2% PoP rise saw the next best-performing title, What’s On TV, close in on TV Choice with a little over a million copies, while Radio Times was up 2.7% PoP to 783,000.

Alongside What’s On TV, Bauer’s Total TV Guide was the only other title to see circulation increase both PoP and YoY, up 4.5% and 2.6%, respectively.

Not such good news for Time Inc’s Soaplife, however, which was down -11.6% PoP and down in sales by almost a fifth compared with the same time last year.

All About Soap recorded a similar sorry picture, down -19.6% year on year.