What's On TV
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What's On TV is a weekly television listing magazine published by IPC Media, a Time Warner subsidiary. It is claimed to be the United Kingdom's best-selling magazine with over 4 million readers.[citation needed]
It was launched in 1991 after the monopoly on listings magazine ended. Before this, only the Radio Times had BBC listings and TV Times had ITV and (from 1982 Channel 4) listings. What's On TV started along with TV Quick and the short lived TV Plus in March 1991.
When it was launched, the cover picture usually had TV stars and programmes but more recently, it almost exclusively has a soap represented on the cover (mainly EastEnders).
In addition to television listings, it contains news and gossip from soap operas, as well as puzzles and competitions.
In January 2007, the magazine launched its own soaps and TV website - www.whatsontv.co.uk - which covers the latest soap plots for the seven big soaps: Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Neighbours, Doctors, Home & Away, as well as the daily fix of soap and TV gossip. Again, this demonstrates the magazine's emphasis in recent years on soap content.
Like the magazine, the website also includes a full TV Guide and TV listings pages, and the day's top TV picks. Uniquely, the website has over 25,000 searchable film reviews, with information from full cast lists to staff credits, dating from as early as the 1940s.
The website also has a rich database of soap character biographies and actor profiles for the 3 big UK soaps.
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