Radio Times

radiotimes.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteRadio Times | TV, film and entertainment news | Radio TimesYour UK TV and radio guide to what's on TV and on demand plus all the latest entertainment, soap, film and drama news and reviews from Radio Times.

Radio Times (radiotimes.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1999. It is built with Next.js, React and Varnish; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #11,308 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #4,851

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#11,308list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#4,851list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with Next.js, React and Varnish.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 395
    <script src="/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js">
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    Evidence · page source, line 106
    10 attributes starting with data-react-helmet
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    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (23)

Around it: CDN, Security, Email, Tag manager and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered23 Apr 1999, 27 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Radio Times, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered23 Apr 1999, 27 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings4 of 6 in placeFound
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsRadio Times | TV, film and entertainment news | Radio TimesYour UK TV and radio guide to what's on TV and on demand plus all the latest entertainment, soap, film and drama news and reviews from Radio Times.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q3461827: Radio Times, magazine
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/feed">
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
Radio Times | TV, film and entertainment news | Radio Times · Radio Times · Your UK TV and radio guide to what's on TV and on demand plus all the latest enterta
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 407
<a href="https://www.radiotimes.com/newsletter/">Newsletters</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataRadio Times
  • copyright lineImmediate
  • WikidataRadio Times

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Part of Immediate Media Company.

Its Facebook and X accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 407
"name": "Radio Times"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 407
© Immediate 2026
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q3461827: Radio Times
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

  • Radio Times: British TV and radio guide · website, magazine · since 1923

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of this item. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, ClaudeBot, Bytespider and 4 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.
  • Content signals: search=yes, ai-input = no, ai-train=no.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 65
User-agent: AI2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 68
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 77
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 80
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 52
Content-signal: search=yes, ai-input = no, ai-train=no
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Radio Times
Language
English (en-GB)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, OrganizationSchema

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

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Score breakdown

Site Score

96 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

96OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 27 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · tells search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 1999; first archived in 2000.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 27 of 27 years · see the first capture

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  27. 2026: captured
Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

927 checks on 26 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Questions about radiotimes.com

What is radiotimes.com?

Radio Times describes itself: “Your UK TV and radio guide to what's on TV and on demand plus all the latest entertainment, soap, film and drama news and reviews from Radio Times.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is radiotimes.com?

Its domain was registered on 23 Apr 1999, 27 years ago. See the evidence

What is radiotimes.com built with?

It is built with Next.js, React and Varnish; we found 26 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is radiotimes.com?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was radiotimes.com made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind radiotimes.com?

Radio Times, named by its structured data, its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 26 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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