Most of the covers use bright, neon colours to attract an audience of middle aged women, the key demographic who watch soaps on tv. These tv listings magazines always include the title of the magazine, a price (which is normally well under a pound) a main picture and headline and four or five other pictures and story lines. Most of the pictures on the front of these tv listings are front on pictures of only one or two characters from a soap and they are normally surrounded in a thin, white, fuzzy glow that, to its target audience, makes the person in the picture look almost angelic or desirable.
I have also included a picture of radio times front cover as it is much simpler. It uses more natural colourings and tones and normally focuses in on one picture and some written text, it is much more appealing to look at.
The final image I have included is of a annotated tv listing cover, it highlights all the important elements that make a standard listings cover.
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