TV Times (1955-)

TVTimes is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom, known for its access to television actors and their programmes. The magazine was launched on September 22,1955, at the start of transmissions of ITV, but only became a national magazine in 1968. Prior to 1968, several of the regional ITV companies – Westward Television, Scottish Television, Tyne Tees Television, Ulster Television, TWW and Teledu Cymru (and briefly WWN) – produced their own listings magazines. The Midlands originally had their own edition of TVTimes listing ATV and ABC programmes, but a separate listings magazine in the Midlands called TV World existed 1964–68 before TVTimes went national.

Until television listings were deregulated in 1991, TVTimes was the only place where the public could find complete listings of ITV programmes for the week ahead, and from 1982 onwards, Channel 4 programmes too

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