Consumer ABCs: TV Listings

Suffering from the post-Christmas decline, no title in the TV listings market was able to record growth in the first half of 2019.

However, the top performing magazines – all still print-only – draw sizeable circulations.

Continuing to lead the market with a circulation of 1.12m, Bauer’s TV Choice witnessed a period-on-period decline of -3.4% in H1 and -3.8% year-on-year.

Meanwhile, TI Media’s What’s on TV, ranked second in the market, was down -5.5% PoP to 778,300, while Immediate Media’s Radio Times, the third most popular magazine, suffered a more serious decline of -10.5%, taking its circulation down to just under 520,000.

Elsewhere, TI Media’s TV Times recorded the largest decline – a drop of -12.3% PoP and -9.9% YoY – leaving it in fourth place with a circulation of 141,600.