<P> Until the deregulation of television listings in 1991, the Radio Times carried programme listings for BBC radio and television channels only, while the ITV - published magazine, TVTimes, carried television programme listings for ITV and, from 1982, Channel 4 . Today both publications carry listings for all major terrestrial, cable and satellite television channels in the United Kingdom . A number of similar magazines, from independent publishers, also exist . Separate television and radio magazines began to be published from 1 March 1991, when the Radio Times and TV Times lost their duopoly to publish programme listings . However, the Radio Times still lives up to its name by being the most comprehensive source of UK radio listings in print, and also since the edition of 22 May 2007 has carried two extra pages of TV listings per day as part of a slight tweak in the publication's format, bringing it up to ten pages of listings per day in total . </P> <P> Radio Times is published on Tuesdays (its publication day having gradually moved forward from Fridays over many years) and carries listings for the following Saturday through to Friday (this began in 1960, before which issues ran Sunday to Saturday; the changeover meant that Saturday 8 October 1960 was listed twice). </P> <P> Since Christmas 1969, a double - sized issue has been published each December containing listings for two weeks of programmes . Originally, this covered Christmas and New Year listings, but in some years these appear in separate editions, with the two - week period ending just before New Year . The cover of the' Christmas Number' (as this issue came to be called) dating from the time when it contained just a single week's listings, usually features a generic festive artwork, atypical for the magazine, which since the 1970s has almost exclusively used photographic covers for all other issues . </P> <P> From April 2010, each day's television listed over ten pages or five double - page spreads: two pages of reviews of highlights ("Choices") followed by two pages of terrestrial TV listings (one column for daytime television, and five columns for the evening television), then six pages of listings for digital channels . </P>

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