do you still buy BBC radio times?

I get the Radio Times on subscription, paid for with my Tesco Clubcard points. I used to get Gardeners World too until they changed the value of the points.
I think next time I will shop around and see if there is a better deal to be had elsewhere. Thanks for the prompt!

We buy the Radio Times on subscription. It works out much cheaper. It is still the best overall guide to TV and radio programmes. The newspaper guides are very poor for radio information.

No. We haven't bought the Radio Times for years. We buy the Daily Mail on a Saturday purely for the television supplement. I don't think either of us actually reads the newspaper.

I still get Radio Times on subscription and enjoy using it but it is very expensive. I might cancel next time and try and find a cheaper discount sub. It is part of tradition and I enjoy seeing what’s on both tv and radio.

Only at Christmas, it wouldn’t be Christmas without it! 😂

My husband doesn't on a subscription which makes it cheaper. I think it is a waste of money as all ths main things are printed in the daily paper we have but he loves reading it.

Pittcity yes I read both TVTimes and Radio Times on line but our local library service is called “Libby*. By the way there are hundreds of Magazines available on that service

Nope. M & D would have got one at Christmas time back in the day.

Only at Christmas when it is read from cover to cover and everything we want to watch is underlined

We have it on subscription ….although we are finding less and less to watch these days.

Yes I still get Radio Times sent to me. I go through and see what is on and when, in particular what is on radio 3, so that I note what I particularly want to see or listen to. Useful at the moment to see what (if any!) non repeats, and non sporting things are available right now!

Only at Christmas. I never actually get around to reading it but the thrill of finding it in the shops never fades!

I don't get it weekly any longer but to me its a big part of the whole Christmas kick off, I love looking through and circling anything festive & nostalgic and enjoy the anticipation very much
I probably watch more at Christmas than the rest of the year put together!

I always bought it but recently I haven't bothered as I look at it online which is adequate for.

Pittcity

I have just had a look and found that Radio Times is available to read online through my local library service using Borrowbox. Could save you a fortune in magazine subscriptions.

It would take a week to read all the many hundreds/ thousands of different programs online.

I can afford whatever takes my fancy.

Same old story, everything falls effortlessly into the lap of boomer by sheer luck. No sweat.

Chestnut

I still get the Radio Times! The amount of information in there is astonishing, details of all the smaller channels which you might otherwise miss. I love the way it highlights and describes various movies and new programmes. I look through it every day to see what's on tomorrow so I can set the TV box to record.

There were a lot of problems with subscriptions a couple of years ago, when they were taking far too much money. It was a company doing it, not Radio Times. I think they sorted it out in 2024 and as butterandjam says it is now Immediate Media. My subscription is £52 and goes through twice a year. Is anyone paying more or less than that? I'd be interested to know.

I use it the same way, to record whatever we want to watch.

Until a few months ago I always had RT on cheap subscription delivered by post ( free, same cost). But our postal service has become so erratic, sometimes the new copy arrived so late it missed the first days of new programs. Given up on that.

We're just buying it OTC in the supermarket now.

My DH doesn't think it's Christmas until he buys the Christmas Radio Times, it's the only time we have it, but I do keep the Culture from the Sunday Times with the weeks viewing in it.

I have just had a look and found that Radio Times is available to read online through my local library service using Borrowbox. Could save you a fortune in magazine subscriptions.

I get a tv magazine at the weekends with the newspaper but I access Radio Times online too. We always bought it at Christmas.

We used to get both the Radio Times and TV Times until they both carried all listings, the it was just the Radio Times.

We then just started using the free on in the Saturday papers .

We would get the Radio Times at Christmas, stopped doing that the year of Covid and then decided to start again last Christmas but when we saw it was, IIRC, nearly £6 we thought again.

I don't look at a TV guide at all any more nor do I record anything. I tend to binge a series or watch a film on a streaming service as and when it suits me.
Any events I'd like to watch live are advertised on news and social media. I hardly ever watch on my TV set preferring to use a laptop or tablet.
TV will be going the way of telephones in the next 10 years or so with terrestrial TV via ariel being turned off in favour of smart streaming.

The only annoying thing about it is that TV and radio are listed seperately rather than all on the same day. How silly is that? I want to know what I can both watch and listen to on that day and not have to flit back and forth to the front and back of the mag!

I still get the Radio Times! The amount of information in there is astonishing, details of all the smaller channels which you might otherwise miss. I love the way it highlights and describes various movies and new programmes. I look through it every day to see what's on tomorrow so I can set the TV box to record.

There were a lot of problems with subscriptions a couple of years ago, when they were taking far too much money. It was a company doing it, not Radio Times. I think they sorted it out in 2024 and as butterandjam says it is now Immediate Media. My subscription is £52 and goes through twice a year. Is anyone paying more or less than that? I'd be interested to know.

bah, not IPC media, RT is now owned by Immediate Media Company.

Its no longer a BBC magazine its owned by IPC media.

It carries listings for all major terrestrial, cable and satellite television channels in the United Kingdom and that's why we buy it. Unusual films and foreign programs are listed and described that I'd never have heard of otherwise.