Appears BBC News Channel is simulcasting all day on Christmas Day with BBC World News, both running the near enough same TOTH schedules outside of BBC One & BBC Africa bulletins
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The Christmas RT was about double the price of the weekly mag for some time - that is until recent years when they started hiking the price up by 20p a year and I think it is now £3.40 each week. So rather than charge a terrifying £6.80 they seem to have identified £5 as the ceiling to stick at. For now.
Let's face it - it's already a premium product and has been for some time, arguably as far back as listings regulation but more so now. I'm not sure I'd get it were the heavily discounted iPad version not available, much as I'm very fond of it
The Christmas Radio Times and the Christmas TV Times I feel will both be abandoned within another decade or so. It will come to a point where the public will just not want to spend money on a magazine they will never use. Yes it is all about tradition, and that is important, but when it comes to the point when the sales of the Christmas magazine does not bring in revenue at all, then it will be the end of the Christmas editions, and indeed TV magazines altogether.
No matter how much we want to ignore it, technology and changes in TV habits mean some things have to go. Just look at DVDs, a thing of the past now.
It is also interesting looking at how much time will be spent by people watching these schedules as they are published. We see the Christmas audience figures, and every year they plummet.
The Christmas Radio Times and the Christmas TV Times I feel will both be abandoned within another decade or so. It will come to a point where the public will just not want to spend money on a magazine they will never use. Yes it is all about tradition, and that is important, but when it comes to the point when the sales of the Christmas magazine does not bring in revenue at all, then it will be the end of the Christmas editions, and indeed TV magazines altogether.
No matter how much we want to ignore it, technology and changes in TV habits mean some things have to go. Just look at DVDs, a thing of the past now.
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My mother is a consumer of both the Radio Times, and DVDs, her generation are not dead yet
No matter how much we want to ignore it, technology and changes in TV habits mean some things have to go. Just look at DVDs, a thing of the past now.
DVDs are not a thing of the past. They might have declined in popularity in favour of streaming but they are far from dead. I have copious amounts of them (even though I have ripped the main movie portions to a NAS for Kodi use), and everybody I know still has them.
Given the choice I would much prefer physical media any day. Modern streaming is hidden behind paywalls, you stop paying, you don't get it. With DVD the only thing I would have to stop paying for would be electricity, which if I stop paying for generates other issues...
The Christmas Radio Times and the Christmas TV Times I feel will both be abandoned within another decade or so. It will come to a point where the public will just not want to spend money on a magazine they will never use. Yes it is all about tradition, and that is important, but when it comes to the point when the sales of the Christmas magazine does not bring in revenue at all, then it will be the end of the Christmas editions, and indeed TV magazines altogether.
I don't think you could be further from the truth. If anything with more and more viewing options the likes of the Radio Times actually become more important and can curate viewing for readers in a way EPGs and online guides could never dream of.
I didn't realise the Strictly Christmas Day Top 25 show was the Top 25 dances from the regular series. I assumed they were from the Christmas Day shows, which IMO would have been better considering they've done a (badly edited) best of series this year and the Christmas show dances would obviously be on theme for the day, but also I think feel more like new content as they are naturally a bit more forgettable than those from the main series.
The Christmas Radio Times and the Christmas TV Times I feel will both be abandoned within another decade or so. It will come to a point where the public will just not want to spend money on a magazine they will never use. Yes it is all about tradition, and that is important, but when it comes to the point when the sales of the Christmas magazine does not bring in revenue at all, then it will be the end of the Christmas editions, and indeed TV magazines altogether.
I don't think you could be further from the truth. If anything with more and more viewing options the likes of the Radio Times actually become more important and can curate viewing for readers in a way EPGs and online guides could never dream of.
I am just giving my opinion on how I see it. Nothing more, nothing less. If I am wrong, I am wrong.
The Christmas Radio Times and the Christmas TV Times I feel will both be abandoned within another decade or so. It will come to a point where the public will just not want to spend money on a magazine they will never use. Yes it is all about tradition, and that is important, but when it comes to the point when the sales of the Christmas magazine does not bring in revenue at all, then it will be the end of the Christmas editions, and indeed TV magazines altogether.
I don't think you could be further from the truth. If anything with more and more viewing options the likes of the Radio Times actually become more important and can curate viewing for readers in a way EPGs and online guides could never dream of.
I am just giving my opinion on how I see it. Nothing more, nothing less. If I am wrong, I am wrong.
Many people were wrong when they said the same thing 20 years ago.
Admittedly I stopped buying the RT about a decade ago, around the time analogue TV got switched off and Freeview EPGs became standard - for a few more years I carried on buying one of the cheaper TV guides at Christmas, but that stopped once I had a decent enough smartphone which could load pages quickly enough.
DVDs I still use all the time, particularly now stores like CeX sell lots of them for as low as 50p second hand - no connection problems, no subscriptions, no annoying unskippable ads (VLC Media Player mostly skips the trailers found at the start of some of them) and no worry of it suddenly being withdrawn from your streaming service of choice someday.
RT has a place in households still using linear TV, which I'm not. The BBC iPlayer has a decent forward going EPG for a couple of days which I use to browse content when not having access to a TV EPG. Virtually any content missed can be caught up too. When last purchased it's editorial wasn't worth my investment sadly.
Many still buy it due to it's long disconnected connection with the BBC, a significant number of those not realising that disconnect too.
I didn't realise the Strictly Christmas Day Top 25 show was the Top 25 dances from the regular series. I assumed they were from the Christmas Day shows, which IMO would have been better considering they've done a (badly edited) best of series this year and the Christmas show dances would obviously be on theme for the day, but also I think feel more like new content as they are naturally a bit more forgettable than those from the main series.
Is it really!? Why on earth put it on Christmas Day then? If they absolutely had to it should've been at 1.15pm with Early Man later in the day, but even then, it screams late afternoon on one of the days between Christmas and New Year.