RTÉ Guide


The RTÉ Guide is a television and radio listings magazine in Ireland published by RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, a subsidiary of Raidió Teilifís Éireann.
The magazine offers detailed programme listings for RTÉ channels, as well as Virgin Media One, TG4, Virgin Media Two, BBC One, BBC Two, UTV, and Channel 4, as well as less detailed listings for variations of BBC Wales, ITV Wales, S4C and a number of satellite and cable channels. RTÉ Radio programme listings are also published. Lifestyle and celebrity articles are also included in the magazine.

History and publication

The RTÉ Guide began publication on 1 December 1961 as the RTV Guide and changed its name to the current name in 1966.
From 8 January 1977, the RTÉ Guide switches from tabloid format to a compact magazine size and also changes from monochrome into colour, while early on listings were carried for the BBC but were later dropped after a few years and only RTÉ programme listings were carried. Following the UK listings magazines such as Radio Times and TVTimes were deregulated from 1 March 1991, the magazine began carrying BBC, UTV/HTV Wales and Channel 4 listings also from 13 April 1991.
A special Christmas double issue of RTÉ Guide is published every year to cover the Christmas period and the New Year.
In April 2018 the RTÉ Guide got its first new look for some years.
In May 2019, it was reported that RTÉ was considering putting the RTÉ Guide up for sale. In June 2019, it was reported that the Sunday Business Post owner, Enda O’Coineen, might acquire the RTÉ Guide. However, in December 2019, RTÉ had abandoned the sale of the RTÉ Guide.

Circulation

The Audit Bureau of Circulations circulation figures for the RTÉ Guide were:
The RTÉ Guide is no longer ABC audited. Hence, no ABC figures are available post 2018.