RTE Guide Magazine

John Joe Jones

How many copies does it sell per week and is it making a profit ?

iseegirls

According to MediaLive in 2014, the RTE Guide is the most bought magazine in Ireland with an average readership of 428,000. This is followed in 2nd place by Farmers Journal at 298,000. Their nearest rival (in terms of TV listings) would be TV Now with a readership of 117,000.

I'd assume that it would be making a profit if it held that much readership.

JTMan

That is readership figures. Not sales figures. Also, those readership figures are non-credible at best.

For the sales figures, use the ABC numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Guide

http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/46996765.pdf

The ABC audited circulation for the RTÉ Guide for 2012 was down 16.8% to 61,881.

The ABC audited circulation for the RTÉ Guide for 2014 was down to 53,695.

It is probably profitable. It faces a future of declining sales and eventual closure.

Capt'n Midnight

The rot set in when they stopped doing the knitting patterns.

icdg

That listings magazines are still selling so well in an era of seven day EPGs and hundreds of channels is surprising, maybe people just find them easier to read. Hard to believe that before 1991 if you wanted advanced listings you had to buy all three of them (the RTE Guide, BBC Radio Times and TV Times). The TV Times/ITV connection was broken over twenty years ago and the BBC-Radio Times connection more recently.

galtee boy

The best and most comprehensive TV guide, believe it or not, is in the Irish Sun every Saturday. It costs only €1 and even if you think the paper is crap, chuck it in the bin, no offence to anyone !, you still have a great guide for only €1.

mike2084

galtee boy wrote: »

The best and most comprehensive TV guide, believe it or not, is in the Irish Sun every Saturday. It costs only €1 and even if you think the paper is crap, chuck it in the bin, no offence to anyone !, you still have a great guide for only €1.

I'd agree with that, saw it one Saturday and thought it was brilliant. I think it's over 100 channels, even list's the likes of Racing UK. Great value for a €1 and as the above poster suggested the rest goes straight in my recycling :-)

Sean Amhlaoibh

The Irish Mail on Sunday has the best TV Guide going, bar none.

EdmondShiels3

I got a tv guide every week until I got sky and now don't bother apart from the Christmas rte guide. It would not be christmas without it. If I want to know what on I will check sky. I also use tv guide websites which can be good.

galtee boy

Sean Amhlaoibh wrote: »

The Irish Mail on Sunday has the best TV Guide going, bar none.

It's good, but not as detailed and comprehensive as the one in the Sun.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.tvbrowser.org/ - pulls RTE listings from The Radio Times
get the "I don't want to see" plug in and you can remove all the Soaps and cookery and home improvement programs

€1.85 a week and the Christmas special and it's more or less €100 a year

http://www.rte.ie/mediasales/guide/

twinklerunner

galtee boy wrote: »

The best and most comprehensive TV guide, believe it or not, is in the Irish Sun every Saturday. It costs only €1 and even if you think the paper is crap, chuck it in the bin, no offence to anyone !, you still have a great guide for only €1.

Thanks for the tip - it's not a paper I would ever buy but got it today and the tv listings magazine is really good (albeit a few errors with channel numbers that aren't on Sky's Irish epg, ie: 5*, UTV, etc - but that's just being picky).
I bought the RTE Guide at Christmas and was surprised at the number of channels it didn't list, such as BT Sport.

John Joe Jones

One thing the RTE Guide is probably still the best for is Radio listings.

I love the Radio Times as there is an excellent radio listing for the BBC Radio stations,I listen to R2,R4 and 5Live a lot!