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TV Guide editions with different content

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I was at the library yesterday looking at issues of TV Guide from the 70s, and I noticed some odd things. A few times there are articles that are not listed in the issue's table of contents. And when I looked up one issue on Ebay, some of the issues being sold had an article not present in the issue I'd seen at the library. How often did different editions of TV Guide have different editorial content? And why put articles in one issue and not the other?
 
What library is this - I never see TVGs at libraries anymore - I have to get my Seattle listings from printed-out microfilm from the Seattle Times.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
What library is this - I never see TVGs at libraries anymore - I have to get my Seattle listings from printed-out microfilm from the Seattle Times.

-crainbebo
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Tacoma (WA) downtown public library; they've got most (but not all) issues since 1962. Got to ask the reference desk because they're kept in the basement.
 
I gotta get my butt down to either Tacoma or Seattle's big libraries for those TVGs! Microfilm is even better...and if you want the listings, do you just snap a picture and copy from the pic? (Since most reference use stuff is library-use only)

-crainbebo
 
The only time I had seen a "different" edition of TV Guide was when they tested a larger version in the early 90's. Nashville was one of the cities it was tested in and the only real difference was the layout to fit the larger size. Otherwise the articles were the same. I still have a copy of the larger Nashville edition. The test version didn't last long until they went to the larger version nationwide in 2005(?).
 
anotherguy said:
The only time I had seen a "different" edition of TV Guide was when they tested a larger version in the early 90's. Nashville was one of the cities it was tested in and the only real difference was the layout to fit the larger size. Otherwise the articles were the same. I still have a copy of the larger Nashville edition. The test version didn't last long until they went to the larger version nationwide in 2005(?).
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IIRC Rochester and Pittsburgh were the other markets (I have a Pittsburgh copy in my collection).
 
As a child, I recall that there was a "For The Record" section at the start of the program listings pages of TV Guide (which went to press some days later than the glossy outer pages) that not only had "late" national industry news that broke too late to get into the "TV Teletype" pages of the glossy section, but also occasionally had stories about local TV in the area covered by that edition.

In August of 1963, a local "FTR" brief for Boston might have noted "'The Mike Douglas Show', a popular talk and variety program in Cleveland, is being nationally syndicated and will premiere on (WBZ-TV) Channel 4 Monday from 12:30 to 2 P.M.".
 
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Rochester is a perennial test market for all sorts of things...and yes, we did get "Big TV Guide" when they were testing it out.
 
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