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Isn't TVGuide The WORST Magazine Ever ?

Does Rupert "Murderdock" still own TVGuide? If so, is it a precursor to what The Wall Street Journal will become. Ah, a tabloid Dow Jones Report. Which insider trader ...or traitor is sleeping with whom or what...Wow, I can't wait. ;)
 
Not the worst but they're not in the toilet

A lot of magazines are losing readers. TV Guide is not the only one.

All the US-based newsweeklies are getting hit hard. Newsweek, Time and U.S. News push fluff at the expense of hard news. Time changed its publication date to Friday but that didn't help.

Casablanca said:
How much longer will it survive. It no longer has local or regional listings only national.
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Make that "It no longer has old listings we want to copy verbatim and paste on a message board". That's for people who've got too much time on their hands. It's also grounds for getting a message board taken down.
 
Re: Not the worst but they're not in the toilet

chuckydoll said:
A lot of magazines are losing readers. TV Guide is not the only one.

All the US-based newsweeklies are getting hit hard. Newsweek, Time and U.S. News push fluff at the expense of hard news. Time changed its publication date to Friday but that didn't help.
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Same is true with those "adult" magazines too. Playboy I have heard recently has lost a ton of money plus Hustler makes more money now in retail than they do with their infamous magazine. I believe Penthouse is now totally gone, at least the one behind the Vanessa Williams uproar.
 
I still subscribe to it and probobly will continue to do so, also unless it just changed mine has local listings (which is all i look at anyway). I admit I use it more for entertainment/tv news than a listing guide...thats what my on screen guide is for.
 
i still subscribed to tv guide, i don't really read it anymore. i like the old tv regional local listings they used to have and better articles.
 
Steve said:
I still subscribe to it and probobly will continue to do so, also unless it just changed mine has local listings (which is all i look at anyway).
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Lemme ask ya, what edition is your TV Guide? "NY Metro"? "LA Metro"? Or is it the Canadian version?
 
Check your facts first

TV Guide has had only East and West editions since it changed to standard size 2 years ago.

Up in Canada, TV Guide is now online only. The printed magazine was discontinued late last year.
 
Re: Check your facts first

chuckydoll said:
TV Guide has had only East and West editions since it changed to standard size 2 years ago.

Up in Canada, TV Guide is now online only. The printed magazine was discontinued late last year.
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This is probably a precursor to what will happen here in the States too. I just don't see TVG being viable in its present iteration: it's driven its traditional readers away with the format change while not being "hip" enough to keep up with the likes of the celebrity mags (like "OK" or "the Star" or "People"). Again, it's in a lose-lose situation.

Time to stop the presses and concentrate online and on their cable channel, which is another entity that will need to change or die - BTW. Digital cable channel guides are rapidly making TVG channel obsolete in its present form. It'll be redundant by 2010.
 
TVGuide used to be a great magazine, but it just couldn't survive like it was with the Internet and with on-screen program guides.

The smaller version had even gotten pretty bad in it's last years - they reduced the listings a lot.

How about the TV Guide channel? That's even worse than the magazine...
 
TV Guide's on screen program guides have problems as well. We have it on Charter Cable in Jackson, TN, and I've seen times where they would get movies or TV shows mixed up. Example: AMC has been showing the 1989 version of Batman with Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger, but several times the listing has shown the 1966 movie with Adam West and Burt Ward. Another example is where there was an episode of Property Ladder on TLC that was titled The not so Silent Partner. Instead the listing showed an episode of One Day at a Time with the same title. (Is one Day at a Time even on anywhere now?). I know that sometimes this can come from wrong information from the network or a computer glitch, but it still looks like they should be doing better than this.
 
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