Price
When it launched in September 1923 an issue of Radio Times cost just 2d (2 old pence). This price remained the same until January 1951 when it increased to 3d and by September 1963 it had doubled to 6d. By October 1970 the price had doubled again to 1 shilling (5p in decimal currency). The price remained at 5p until the summer of 1974 when it rose to 8p. In 1984, the year that Radio Times began to be web-offset printed, the price was 30p.
2007 saw an issue cost £1 for the first time.
The current price of an issue, since December 2011 (as of the edition published 23rd December 2011, covering programmes from 31st December 2011 - 6th January 2012) is £1.40. This represented an increase of 20p per issue compared to the previous regular issue price. The most recent Christmas double issue (2011) cost £2.50.
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Famous quotes containing the word price:
“By all those, who are not much acquainted with him, he was considered infinitely below his level; he put no price upon himself, and consequently went at an undervalue; for the world is complaisant or dupe enough, to give every man the price he sets upon himself, provided it be not insolently and overbearingly demanded. It turns upon the manner of asking.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Forced from home, and all its pleasures,
Afric’s coast I left forlorn;
To increase a stranger’s treasures,
O’er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though theirs they have enroll’d me,
Minds are never to be sold.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“I don’t want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won’t buy tickets to see her act.”
—Vincent Price (1911N)