Radio Times revisited

[salymap]

I've read the Radio Times since it cost 6d old money, although someone else bought it for me then.

It seems to be the latest victim of sloppy staff work.
For instance,in my London/SE edition under the welcome details of Wuthering Heights at 8pm it says 'Pick of the Week. p 31.' Actually P31 is about Torvill and Dean.

I found 'Pick of the week' is a 2 page spread on pages
4/5. No mention of Wuthering Heights. i could give
other examples, not only from ths week,but my sight isn't up to it. Maybe it's me but I don't think so.
Combined with the few pages given over to music now it's hardly worth buying.

[Mary Chambers]

It's the same in my North West edition. I do still think it's worth buying, though. It has much more detail about every kind of programme than any alternative, and I find it quicker and easier than looking online.

[salymap]

Thanks Mercia, it shouldn't be such hard work for £1.20 though

[barber olly]

I've read the Radio Times since it cost 6d old money, although someone else bought it for me then.

Up to about a couple of years ago I could probably claim the same. However, as with the Gramophone I found increasingly less of its content interesting and the R3 listings available on line (although the quality of that seems to have gone down - information on the January Mozart works was exceedingly poor). 'Radio' Times increasingly a misnomer for a magazine majoring in Celebrity Claptrap! I miss the puzzles page a bit but then I can get similar in the western Morning News!

[Norfolk Born]

According to the chap who replied to my last complaint, they're being asked to produce ever more comprehensive programme listings and articles with ever fewer resources and staff.

[Pianorak]

I complained about the RT before and will probably cancel my subscription.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?1253-Radio-Times&highlight=Radio+Times

[Mr Pee]

Well I've just renewed my subscription to the Radio Times. I find it is the most intelligent TV and Radio listings magazine by a country mile, and helps me make informed choices about what I want to watch or listen to. Some of the articles interest me, some don't, but then that's true of practically every newspaper or magazine I can think of.

And I'm not going to get too worked up about the occasional typo or proof reading error.

[Norfolk Born]

Would that they were only occasional. (But then, my livelihood depends on spotting and correcting them).

[salymap]

Yes I did a certain amount of proof reading of both text and music and typos do happen, but the RT seems particularly accident prone and it's annoying when they give wrong information regarding pages, which they do often.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well I've just renewed my subscription to the Radio Times. I find it is the most intelligent TV and Radio listings magazine by a country mile, and helps me make informed choices about what I want to watch or listen to.

It is quite true to say that all the other listings magazines are considerably worse. But where others go, the BBC so often seems to follow.

[Chris Newman]

I gave up with the RT when I noticed that my daily paper's Saturday Edition does almost as good a job and comes "free" with the paper.

[amateur51]

I gave up with the RT when I noticed that my daily paper's Saturday Edition does almost as good a job and comes "free" with the paper.

I once suggested to John Bird, founder of The Big Issue, that his sellers would make a lot more money if he arranged for each weekly issue to contain that week's TV & Radio guide.

As so often in life, I've found, my helpful comments fell upon stony ground

[3rd Viennese School]

I gave up buying Radio Times when they pushed it up to £1-20.

[Anna]

I once suggested to John Bird, founder of The Big Issue, that his sellers would make a lot more money if he arranged for each weekly issue to contain that week's TV & Radio guide.

In theory, that's a really good idea but in practical terms it wouldn't work because of all the regional variations in programming. I only ever buy the double Christmas edition of the RT now, it's too much centered on tv rather than radio and too many 'Sleb stories.

[VodkaDilc]

In theory, that's a really good idea but in practical terms it wouldn't work because of all the regional variations in programming. I only ever buy the double Christmas edition of the RT now, it's too much centered on tv rather than radio and too many 'Sleb stories.

I am in the same situation as Anna. When I last bought it, several years ago, I got in the habit of tearing out the radio pages and discarding the rest, unread.

I recall going to a meeting some years ago, at which the guest speaker was Sir John Drummond. It was at the time when RT began covering all and sundry and reducing radio coverage. I asked him how he saw the situation developing and he replied that he would ideally like to see the detailed R3 listings being incorporated into The Listener. Now that would have been something worth buying!