The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has added the TV Times to its holdings, as follows:
1955–56 TV times (London, England : 1955)
1956–77 TV times (London)
1967–67 TV times (Northern)
1977–80 TV times (Thames/LWT)
Regional editions of the TV Times were introduced from 1968, and as can be seen from this release, the titles available are mainly for London, with a year's holdings from a northern English edition in 1967. This means that the programming from Scottish Television, Grampian Television, Borders TV, and Ulster Television, will not be found in the release as available at present. It is unclear whether these editions will be forthcoming - but it is encouraging to see the northern English edition, which perhaps bodes well.
I remember reading this each week as a young lad delivering newspapers in Carrickfergus in the 1980s (along with customer copies of the Radio Times and RTÉ Guide!), back in the days when we only had four channels in Northern Ireland, and two in the Republic - fingers crossed we get our versions of these titles added soon!
The BNA's description of the title is available at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/tv-times. The same editions have been made available on FindmyPast, which has an article about them at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/tv-times.
Chris
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