TV Choice's rise put its circulation for the last six months to 967,807, representing a year-on-year rise of 12.3% for the title, published by H Bauer. It recorded an average net circulation of 861,810 copies in June 2002.
TV Choice is looking very comfortable in its number three place in the TV listings market, with IPC Media's TV Times close to 400,000 copies behind at number four. TV Times was down by 6.6% for the period, with a circulation of 529,632 copies and down 7.2% year on year.
It was not all good news at H Bauer's television division, however, with TV Quick seeing a decline in its circulation of 5.6% for the period to 394,251 copies, marking a fall of 10.4% for the year.
Today's Audit Bureau of Circulation figures show a return to growth after several titles recorded falls in December 2002, with the sector recording an average net circulation rise of 1.3% in the past six months.
IPC Media's market-leading What's on TV managed a 3.6% increase for the period, with an average circulation of 1,689,621 copies in June 2003, a rise of 1.4% on the previous year's figure.
It beat BBC Magazine's more upmarket offering Radio Times, which recorded a circulation of 1,161,019 copies. Radio Times has remained steady over the course of the year, increasing its circulation by only 0.5%.
Of the soap titles, Hachette Filipacchi's Inside Soap recorded the biggest increase, rising 4.4% to 247,669 copies for the period, although this figure was down by 2% on the previous year. IPC's Soaplife was a strong performer over the year, with a 12% rise to 115,071 copies, but this is only up by 0.1% on the December 2002 figure of 114,965.
Sky's free customer magazine, pubished by John Brown, remains the biggest title in the country, with a circulation of more than 6.1m copies, up by 5.7%.
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