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RTE Guide has skyrocketed in price

  • 13-10-2024 05:20PM
    #1
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    The RTE Guide has gone up 50c to €2.90c , TV Now went up a much more modest 10c to €1.75.



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  • #2
    iseegirls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭iseegirls


    The Christmas Guide will probably cost 10euro so.

    Haven't bought it in a long time. Join your local library, and get access to Borrow Box with your library card, and the edition is there for free every week.



  • #3
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,153 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I can't imagine who still buys the RTE Guide. They tried to sell it off but there were no takers.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #4
    Luna84
    Site Banned Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Luna84
    Mentally Insane User


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122738478#Comment_122738478

    Especially when you can go online and find out what's on for free. I get the Christmas one though as it's nice to read it.



  • #5
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122738478#Comment_122738478

    I've seen with my own eyes who still buys it weekly, Oaps who collect their pension in cash at the post office on a Friday buy it afterwards along with the local paper, basically its average reader is about 83 years of age, so it's easy to figure out the lack of buyers. It has 10 years left if lucky



  • #6
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,153 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122738492#Comment_122738492

    Or just press the EPG button.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



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  • #7
    Louis Itchy Peacock
    Posts: 66 ✭✭ Louis Itchy Peacock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122738492#Comment_122738492

    Until you realise its basically the same every year.



  • #8
    hibble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭hibble


    So are the programmes.... Killinascully anyone?



  • #9
    autogrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭autogrow


    why buy that muck ?



  • #10
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,153 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122968225#Comment_122968225

    The target audience might not realise this 😶

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #11
    Ruadhri Downes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Ruadhri Downes


    The Christmas RTE Guide costs €5.80, very poor value when the TV Now equivalent Christmas edition is 2.95€



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  • #12
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,015 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The RTE Guide still exists....how and why...

    Surely loss making...should be binned

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • #13
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭standardg60


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986575#Comment_122986575

    Agreed, cannot believe it still exists, every edition is a 'feature' of a merry go round of the staff, literally everyone who's ever appeared on rte has been on the front page.

    Hard to believe it only contained rte listings for years when every newspaper carried BBC and ITV and satellite listings. It's worthless, but habits are hard died.



  • #14
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    According to RTE it's Ireland's best selling magazine.

    They claim about 250,000 readers per issue.

    Sales have been in steady decline for some years.

    I haven't bought it for years.

    I suppose as long as it can wash it's face there is no harm in it continuing.

    https://mediasales.rte.ie/solutions/rte-guide/#:~:text=RTE%20Guide%20remains%20Ireland's%20largest,weekly%20buy%20in%20Irish%20Households.



  • #15
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,245 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    I picked it up at the till in Centra today….. for nostalgia purposes really, was always good for Christmas tele in fairness

    Girl scanned it and it was €5.80.

    It's still at the checkout in Centra



  • #16
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986626#Comment_122986626

    UK seven day listings magazines were regulated at the time - basically only the Radio Times were allowed carry BBC listings and only the TV Times were allowed carry ITV and Channel 4 listings. It’s hard to believe now but if you wanted seven day listings for all four UK terrestrials you had to buy both and if you wanted RTE listings then you had the RTE Guide on top of that. This only ended in 1991 when ITV was being restructured.

    TLDR it wasn’t RTE’s fault.



  • #17
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭standardg60


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986741#Comment_122986741

    Yes i remember the big hullabaloo at the time and the announcements from the publications that they would carry all listings, but was it ever actually regulated or was it purely down to the individual broadcasters not sharing their info? Certainly at the same time we had a door to door seller who simply collated the info from each and sold a tv journal for way less than the cost of all 3, where are the radio and tv times now?



  • #18
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,852 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I can understand people buying it for nostalgia and in the 90s it was as much a part of Christmas as the turkey or Cadbury roses. But no, I wouldn’t spend €6 on it- don’t watch much tv and I’d never read it.
    I always remember they used have a great prize at Christmas- win a new Opel Astra and one for the charity of your choice



  • #19
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986798#Comment_122986798

    Legally speaking, the position was that RTE, BBC Enterprises (predecessors of the current BBC Studios) and ITP (the company jointly owned by the ITV companies which at the time published the TV Times) each held copyright in the tv listings and each held to the strict position that they would only license these to third parties on a daily basis and not weekly.

    Vincent Browne published a tv listings magazine in breach of copyright and was sued over it by the three copyright holders. The magazine went under but the case went to the ECJ and he won and that is one of the reasons deregulation occurred. (Not because the listings weren’t copyright, but because the three broadcasters were acting in restraint of trade by refusing to license them on a seven day basis).



  • #20
    exiledawaynothere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭exiledawaynothere


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986916#Comment_122986916

    that’s genuinely interesting. Vincent Brown did have his moments.



  • #21
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,637 ✭✭✭yagan


    Up until she died a couple of years ago the mother in law bought it every week and planned out her viewing for the week and then did the puzzles. I kinda messed up her TV routine by introducing her to the rosary live streamed from Lourdes and Knock on her phone during the pandemic. But yeah, a certain demographic close to life support is keeping it going.



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  • #22
    Jim Herring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Jim Herring


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986658#Comment_122986658

    The number of readers is meaningless though:

    “RTE Guide remains Ireland’s largest selling magazine with a circulation figure of 32,510 (Jan - Dec 2022).”

    That’s 2 years ago, must be well under 30,000 now, but presumably still profitable for them.



  • #23
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,852 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    It’s hard to believe that many go into a shop every week and buy that thing. Clearly plenty of people with money to waste but in saying that it’s not expensive for a magazine these days at what €2.95?



  • #24
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,213 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986668#Comment_122986668

    Not all heroes wear capes

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #25
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,153 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986558#Comment_122986558

    EPG button is €0.00

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #26
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,343 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122986798#Comment_122986798

    The Radio Times and TV Times still on the magazine shelves in Dublin supermarkets at least…
    RT supposed to readership of a million in the UK.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #27
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,150 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Old and all as the demographics of boards.ie has gotten I still don't think the posters here are the demographic for buying the RTE Guide.

    So what if the EPG is free, some people prefer to use the magazine.



  • #28
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,024 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Alzheimer's is what's keeping it going.

    Same articles slightly changed up with same RTE carousel of "stars", same cookery slots with Skeehan or one of the Allens.



  • #29
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    There are some comments on this thread which are now crossing the line into ageism and anti older people and in one case into demonising suffers of mental illness.

    It’s okay to have a thread on the place of television listings magazines in the streaming age, but the ageist comments have to stop now or the thread gets closed.



  • #30
    Ruadhri Downes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Ruadhri Downes


    Long before everyone had an EPG, TV schedules had all become very stripped and standardised on every channel since about the early 00s, Even RTE One, i.e weeknights Nationwide, Eastenders, Fair city cooking/makeover shows.



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  • #31
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭elperello


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