Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly magazine which provides radio and television listings, and other features such as film reviews. It was the world's first broadcast listings magazine when it was founded in 1923 by John Reith, then general manager of the British Broadcasting Company (from 1 January 1927, the British Broadcasting Corporation).

It was published entirely in-house by BBC Magazines from 8 January 1937 until 2011 when the division was merged into Immediate Media Company. On 12 January 2017, Immediate Media was bought by the German media group Hubert Burda.

The magazine is published on Tuesdays, the day having gradually moved forward from Fridays (later Wednesdays or Thursdays) over many years, and carries listings for the following Saturday through to Friday. Originally, listings ran from Sunday to Saturday – the changeover meant that 8 October 1960 was listed twice in successive issues. Since Christmas 1969, a 14-day double-sized issue has been published each December containing schedules for two weeks of programmes – originally this covering Christmas and New Year (also included bank holidays) in some years those appeared for separate editions with the two-week period ending just before the New Year.