Letter: Top-notch readers

Friday 06 October 1995 23:02 BST

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From Mr Nicholas Brett

Sir: I am disappointed that your columnist W. Stephen Gilbert feels Radio Times "has hurtled down-market" under my editorship ("Why are we all so star-struck", 23 September).

Upper- and middle-class (ABC1) readership of my Radio Times has risen to 69 per cent: it was 48 per cent for the magazine I inherited in August 1988. What am I to think? That RT is their bit of rough?

I notice in the same National Readership Survey data that the Independent has 836,000 ABC1 readers; Radio Times has 3,917,000.

Yours faithfully,

Nicholas Brett

Editor

Radio Times

London, W12

29 September

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