Inside TV Magazine Shuts Down; Final Issue On Newsstands This Week

[Joseph_Gallant]

After only about seven months since it began publishing, Inside TV magazine is being shut down. It's final issue will go on newsstands this Thursday (November 17th).

Full details on the shutdown can be found in this Mediaweek article.

It should be noted that Inside TV was published by the same company that publishes TV Guide. The article also reports that many in the industry believed that since TV Guide's controversial revamp last month, Inside TV was too similar to TV Guide.

Given all the complaints----both on this board and elsewhere----about the "new look" of TV Guide, I wonder if the long-term future of TV Guide itself is also uncertain at best.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

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> Given all the complaints----both on this board and
> elsewhere----about the "new look" of TV Guide, I wonder if
> the long-term future of TV Guide itself is also uncertain at
> best.
>
The hero of the minute is a pair of 3D glasses aparently, (for the show Medium)which happens to be included in next week's TV guide, but what will TV Guide do after everyone who wants a pair has one?<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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[RobertMoore]

In a way I didn't think that "Inside TV" would survive, plus there wasn't much interest given the competition from other celebrity magazines and fight for shelf space at retailers.

This will go down as the biggest flop in the history of magazine publication, and in this case this will be the second "TV Guide" spinoff to go bust:Their first one, "Panorama", a monthly that had a serious side to stories related to the TV scene, lasted barely a year in 1979.

 

[KMRichards]

> This will go down as the biggest flop in the history of
> magazine publication, and in this case this will be the
> second "TV Guide" spinoff to go bust:Their first one,
> "Panarama", a monthly that had a serious side to stories
> related to the TV scene, lasted barely a year in 1979.

Would you believe I still have a full set of those around here someplace?
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[RobertMoore]

> > This will go down as the biggest flop in the history of
> > magazine publication, and in this case this will be the
> > second "TV Guide" spinoff to go bust:Their first one,
> > "Panorama", a monthly that had a serious side to stories
> > related to the TV scene, lasted barely a year in 1979.

> Would you believe I still have a full set of those around
> here someplace?

Lucky you. My mother threw mines out when I was a teenager.

 

[ccmfan]

I'm not surprised at this, because I had the same thought after TV Guide's change. As for TV Guide, in my area they have been harder to find since the change to the new format. At Wal Mart they're in the same area at the checkouts with the tabloids and women's magazines and on fewer aisles. In other stores it's been dropped completely. I won't be surprised to hear that TV Guide will fold in the near future as well.

 

[KMRichards]

> > > This will go down as the biggest flop in the history of
> > > magazine publication, and in this case this will be the
> > > second "TV Guide" spinoff to go bust:Their first one,
> > > "Panorama", a monthly that had a serious side to stories
>
> > > related to the TV scene, lasted barely a year in 1979.
>
> > Would you believe I still have a full set of those around
> > here someplace?
>
> Lucky you. My mother threw mines out when I was a teenager.

I was in my 20s when "Panorama" came out, and I stored them in magazine library boxes, so they survived.

Not so the comic books I had when I was younger, which were tossed unceremoniously in my mid-teens by a non-visionary maternal grandmother. Some that I recall having had copies of would have brought enough money these days to completely fund my retirement ... sigh ...<P ID="signature">______________


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