DO WE STILL MISS THE OLD TV-GUIDE MAGAZINES ?

[azumanga]

I have the idea that politics would prevent it such as Denver's KCNC..I doubt they would allow Cheyenne's KGWN's "Northern Colorado CBS 5 Fort Collins" to be listed in the Denver edition of TV Guide even if that was the local edition one could buy in Fort Collins.

I don't think TV stations have the right to censor TV listings in a particular area, especially if a particular station is available locally terrestrially and on cable.

Also, wasn't the old Northern Colorado edition of TVG sold in areas outside Denver Metro, such as Fort Collins?

 

[mleach]

I don't think TV stations have the right to censor TV listings in a particular area, especially if a particular station is available locally terrestrially and on cable.

Also, wasn't the old Northern Colorado edition of TVG sold in areas outside Denver Metro, such as Fort Collins?

When I was in Fort Collins in 1993 one could get both the Denver & Northern Colorado editions in that area. Looking back now considering what was featured in the "Northern Colorado" edition with Rapid City, SD, as well as Casper and Cheyenne stations...might as well call that edition the "Wyoming-Western South Dakota" edition...but with Fort Collins being the largest city between Denver and Canada ( then and now ) perhaps TV Guide felt it would be best to label it the Northern Colorado edition

 

[wbhist]

The other thing that is missed are the ads explaining what was in each issue, narrated by the late Philadelphia broadcasting legend Taylor Grant (who, in the early 1960's when he started out his long-running gig, even appeared on-camera in the ads for a spell) - accompanied, from c.1968 up to late 1980, by a synthesizer music loop referred to by aficionados as "spacey three-note."

 

[AlbumOldies]

Yes I do indeed miss the old TV Guide, and judging from the number of them listed on Ebay, so do a lot of people.

 

[LKellerIII]

Yes I do indeed miss the old TV Guide, and judging from the number of them listed on Ebay, so do a lot of people.

That's a nostalgia thing. It doesn't mean that people would find them useful in the current world. San Francisco (where I live) is trying to outlaw the automatic distribution of telephone books. If the new law passes, it would be illegal to deliver a phone book to anybody unless they request it. Personally, I haven't used phone books in years - it's faster to Google the number you want, and most private citizens have unlisted numbers in any case.

TV Guides are like phone books - totally irrelevant now - unless you want to read the articles, and that content is available on-line, too.

 

[azumanga]

TV Guides are like phone books - totally irrelevant now - unless you want to read the articles, and that content is available on-line, too.

In fact, up until the early 1960s, many phone books did include articles on the telephone's development and how great and important it is. But that's another story.

 

[rosebud]

I have a collection of all fifty-two 1983 TV Guide Magazines and I have one from 1989(the year I was born)and one from 1986 and two from 1982 and one from 1959 and two from 1960, all are from the Northern California Edition thsat back then included the san Francisco(2,4,5,7,9), Sacramento(3,6,10,13,40), Redding*KVIP-7R,KHSL-12), Chico, Reno(KSBW-8). Salinas(KOLO-8),and San Jose(KNTV-11).

 

[rosebud]

I have a collection of all fifty-two 1983 TV Guide Magazines and I have one from 1989(the year I was born)and one from 1986 and two from 1982 and one from 1959 and two from 1960, all are from the Northern California Edition thsat back then included the san Francisco(2,4,5,7,9), Sacramento(3,6,10,13,40), Redding*KVIP-7R,KHSL-12), Chico, Reno(KOLO-8). Salinas(KSBW-8),and San Jose(KNTV-11).

 

[flashback]

to those who think tv-guides are useless because of internet .i have a scoop for you.

not everyone uses the internet.some do depend on paper sources.

 

[gregg75]

I like to see the entire night spread out on 2 sheets of paper as well.

I had a collection of about 20 from around 1969 to 1975. One day I cleaned a drawer and
looked through them and tossed them all out. THEN, I found this site.......now I wish I had
kept them and was able to share here.

 

[bpatrick]

I have the idea that politics would prevent it such as Denver's KCNC..I doubt they would allow Cheyenne's KGWN's "Northern Colorado CBS 5 Fort Collins" to be listed in the Denver edition of TV Guide even if that was the local edition one could buy in Fort Collins.

I don't think TV stations have the right to censor TV listings in a particular area, especially if a particular station is available locally terrestrially and on cable.

Also, wasn't the old Northern Colorado edition of TVG sold in areas outside Denver Metro, such as Fort Collins?

The station, in this case the CBS one in Denver, would have no say as to whether the CBS affiliate in Cheyenne could or could not be listed in the Denver edition. The rule was that a station had to get into at least 15% of the edition's circulation area in order to be included. Since the Cheyenne station probably wasn't receivable at all in the immediate Denver metro area, but was in the Northern Colorado edition circulation area, that's where it went.

We had a similar situation in Dallas. KXII Ada/Ardmore, OK, could put a grade-B signal as far south as Collin County, TX, where we lived and had the Dallas-Ft. Worth edition. But it didn't go far enough into that edition's coverage area and was instead placed in the North Texas and Oklahoma State editions. BTW, KXII was and is a CBS affiliate; neither KDFW nor KTVT could have kept it out of the Dallas-Ft. Worth edition if its coverage area had warranted inclusion.