What's on TV
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| Editor-in-chief | Colin Tough |
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| Categories | TV magazines |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | IPC Media |
| Total circulation (1H 2008) |
1,346,815 |
| Year founded | 1991 |
| Country | United Kingdom, |
| Language | English |
| Website | WhatsonTV.co.uk |
What's on TV is a weekly television listings magazine published by IPC Media, a Time Warner subsidiary. It has a cover price of 47p.
[edit] Overview
It was launched in 1991 after the monopoly on listings magazine ended. Before this, only Radio Times had BBC listings and TV Times had ITV and, from 1982, Channel 4 listings. What's on TV started along with TV Quick and the short lived TV Plus in March 1991. The title grew to be Britain's best-selling weekly magazine by the mid-1990s. However, a later launching rival publication TV Choice, from H Bauer Publishing, which has a very similar design and format but at a lower price (40p) has caught up since its 1999 debut and in 2008 achieved a higher circulation.
When What's on TV was launched in 1991, the cover usually featured TV stars and programmes but more recently it almost exclusively features a soap. Very often, TV Choice features the very same soap stars on its cover, making the two magazines virtually identical on the newsagent's shelf.
In addition to television listings, What's on TV contains news and gossip from soap operas, as well as puzzles and competitions.
In January 2007, the magazine launched a soaps and TV website which covers soap plots for the six big soaps: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Neighbours, and Home and Away, as well as Reality TV, UK drama, and U.S. series. Like the magazine, the website also includes a full TV guide and TV listings pages (with the day's top TV picks), searchable databases (for films, and for soap character biographies and actor profiles for the three big UK soaps), and produces a weekly video covering soap storylines.
There are two related mobile phone services, a content site launched in late 2008 with mobile specialist K2-media and an editorial site, run on the mobile operators Orange, O2 and Vodafone's portals with Saffron Filmnight.com. Both services are run in partnership with TV Genius.
What's on TV belongs to IPC Media's family of television magazines, which form the sub-group TX. This includes the sister title TV Easy, the long-established TV Times, and TV & Satellite Week, as well as the soap bi-weekly Soaplife.
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