RTE Guide - Christmas 2022 edition

DvB · 16-11-2022 9:28am #1

The bumper Christmas issue will hit shelves nationwide from December 12th with a print run of 310,000 copies... so not long now!

TRS30 · 16-11-2022 10:34am

Will still buy it even though will not really watch much TV and will already know what is on each channel. Probably just do the crossword.

pigtail33 · 16-11-2022 10:50am

Same here, we buy it every year and it barely gets opened anymore. But it's part of the Christmas tradition to buy the RTE Guide and Ireland's Own.

Gone are the days when myself and my siblings almost had to book a time slot to go through the TV section of it. Oh the excitement of planning your TV viewing for the two weeks off school, even though we only had two channels until I was well into secondary school!

Pistachio19 · 16-11-2022 10:50am

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We buy it and circle what we will watch and then forget to watch most of it.

DvB · 16-11-2022 12:02pm

We'll not even be in the country, nevermind near a TV, for the majority of its scheduling but will still buy it, purely out of tradition.

SarahLil · 16-11-2022 3:27pm

Will pick it up out of tradition

Still have last years one it was my little ones first Christmas I keep meaning to put it in her keepsake box

Jim_Hodge · 16-11-2022 3:40pm

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Same here. It doesn't cover most of the channels on our freesat and we've daily papers plus online to see what's on. We really just do the crosswords.

Initially I felt we'd buy it anyway but now I'm having second thoughts. It has been an integral part of decades of Christmases though. We'll see nearer the date how we feel.

TRS30 · 16-11-2022 5:37pm

The Christmas RTE Guide, one of Ireland greatest Christmas traditions 😁

tscul32 · 16-11-2022 5:51pm

Just the crossword here too. But would be weird not to have it.

freshpopcorn · 16-11-2022 10:26pm

I like the Christmas Guide but a confession of mine is I preferred it in the past when they just had a Christmas photo shoot with the RTE Staff.

Loughc · 17-11-2022 10:11am

Another one here who just buys it out of tradition and the crossword but these days I'm getting less and less time to put into the crossword

Tippman24 · 23-11-2022 8:37pm

It is the only time in the year that I buy the RTE Guide. I don't watch much television but it is purely a tradition at this stage. I can remember myself and my sisters fighting over who reads it first and we only had two channels in the place.

ballyargus · 23-11-2022 10:52pm

Similarly, I buy it out of tradition. I love the tough-as-nails film quiz; the beauty of it is that many of the films are on over the season, with the answers to be found within.

dubstepper · 24-11-2022 11:42am

Same here. We buy it and study what to watch, then forget all about it :) With everything on demand now it has somewhat killed it

Quitelife · 24-11-2022 11:47am

Probably buy it but in terms of TV guides its hard to beat The Suns TV guide on a Saturday ?? or is there a better one im not aware??

I buy the Sun each Saturday and throw away the paper itself without looking at it( in a bin of course) . I might become the opposite to other people taking the pull out and leaving the paper itself on the stand.

Smell the glove · 28-11-2022 11:49am

We buy it and circle any films we want to record or major programs. Also very handy when I visit my parents Christmas day as we can look through it and see what we can sit down and watch after dinner. They have a dodgy box so useless for flagging programs to watch.

CheerLouth · 29-11-2022 10:17am

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My parents do this with the Ireland on Sunday (or whatever it's called now). It's a great TV guide to be fair, has nice recipes & a great quiz section at the back.

07-12-2022 4:58pm

The OP says it's coming out on the 12th....which seems late. I thought normally it came out around the 8th or 9th.

NIMAN · 07-12-2022 5:37pm

It appears that the sales of the rte guide are kept strong due to tradition, nothing else.

If the replies on here are a straw poll, it would appear the vast majority don't actually read it or use it as a TV guide at all.

Jim_Hodge · 07-12-2022 7:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119968092#Comment_119968092

Pure tradition for the last decade. We've decided to break this year and we're not bothering. It doesn't get used and rarely has anything worth reading. We'll find some other crosswords to do.