City fan' letter in "Radio Times"

[Bluemanc100]

I'm Stewart Tray....

I’m Stewart Tray and so’s my Wife

 

[Stephen230]

If I remember correctly the Radio Times only did BBC and TV Times ITV - which is why we had to buy both at Xmas

Correct. Pretty much everybody got both or none. I can only assume that they were the only two magazines allowed to sell tv listings for future days.

Must have hit them hard when it was opened up and a multitude of new magazines suddenly appeared.

What a fucking con it was though for all those years, forcing everyone to buy two separate magazines just to see what was coming up on the three channels.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Schoolboy error by Mr Tray...

The letter to the BBC publication should have been signed off "Disgruntled of Beswick" along with a threat to stop paying your licence fee.

Best wishes

Spartacus

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Schoolboy error by Mr Tray...

The letter to the BBC publication should have been signed off "Disgruntled of Beswick" along with a threat to stop paying your licence fee.

Best wishes

Spartacus

Reminds me of the Del Amitri song "Nothing ever happens" with the line
"And angry from Manchester,
Writes to complain
About all the repeats on TV...."

 

[Lavinda Past]

*sticks nose in the air* Well of course, that’s why it is the ‘Radio Times* I subscribe to. Nothing but the highest quality for Eccles folk. ;-) :-)

My mum used to get the RT and circle all the programmes she was definitely going to watch on Christmas day and Boxing day, and then plan times for Christmas lunch, dinner etc around them.

She'd have gone completely bonkers if she'd lived long enough to have had Freeview etc.

 

[Chris in London]

I'm the real Stewart TrayView attachment 45994

Fucking weird middle names

 

[NZBlue]

Fucking weird middle names

Well yours is pretty odd "in"

 

[Bill Walker]

Well if you hadn't, @Bill Walker would have....

Well not really my Morrissey obsessed Floridian friend. Don't get the Radio Times in Queensland, and don't get BBCtv either. And subsequently don't have to pay their rip off license fee.
Win win etc.

 

[Edward Deadwood]

Was there any discernible difference in which households received the Radio Times versus the TV Times?

The Radio Times was the more upmarket publication was it not?

The Radio Times covered BBC and the TV Times ITV, I recall. What a waste of trees! We only had three - then latterly four - channels to share between them.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

*sticks nose in the air* Well of course, that’s why it is the ‘Radio Times* I subscribe to. Nothing but the highest quality for Eccles folk. ;-) :-)

You are Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet) and I claim my 5 pounds.