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It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

Re: It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

> Could these changes have been in the works for many months,
> and that TV Guide decided that NO subscriptions to their
> magazine would go past October 16th, 2005??
>

Although I didn't really look to see what date my subscription ended until the announcement about the changes, I knew my subscription was due to run out some time in October. So even if that was set for all subscriptions to end, they didn't miss mine by much.

I'd think though that they couldn't get away with doing that unless they gave refunds or some kind of makeup for the people whose subscrioptions were running longer.

Even with the announcement I wonder how many people will subscribe or renew in the next few weeks not even knowing about the changes, and how that will be handled. I know I'd be angrier if I started or renewed only to find out about the changes afterward.
 
Re: It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

> All I can say is poor Frank Costanza.
>

Hysterical!!!!!
 
Re: It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

> I collect TV Guides. I would have let my subscription run
> out last year, but I wanted 20 years worth.
>

cool, you'll have 20 years worth including the last (real)issue! 85-05 awesome
 
Re: It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

> > This was bound to happen
>
> They should take it out behind the barn and shoot it. TV
> Guide has been a pile of crap for over 20 years now. In the
> 60's and 70's it was a useful publication with intelligently
> written articles, but ownership changes in the 80's sent it
> down the toilet.
>
> Viewers get more complete listings elsewhere these days. TV
> Guide is a relic and a pathetic shadow of its former self.
> Let it die.
>

CHEERS AND JEERS!!!
 
Re: It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

> I collect TV Guides. I would have let my subscription run
> out last year, but I wanted 20 years worth.
>
Better hang on to the ones you have. I have a couple from the late 70's & early 80's. I'm definately saving the couple Revenge Of the Sith, Fantastic 4, Battlestar Galactica, Carson tribute & Sci-Fi Friday Night preview issues I have.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: It's official: TV Guide will drop local editions and be relaunched as 'new' magazine October 17th!

> > I collect TV Guides. I would have let my subscription run
>
> > out last year, but I wanted 20 years worth.
> >
> Better hang on to the ones you have. I have a couple from
> the late 70's & early 80's. I'm definately saving the couple
> Revenge Of the Sith, Fantastic 4, Battlestar Galactica,
> Carson tribute & Sci-Fi Friday Night preview issues I have.
>

Is there any type of TV Guide collector's website? I'm curious about what certain issues I have are worth. I've seen listings on Ebay, but I'm curious about what else is out there.
 
Why's everyone bashing on EW?

> Perhaps TV Guide should have recognized that many of its
> readers are not merely the mindless (BLEEP) who read
> "Entertainment Weekly" or "People." Maybe instead of TV
> Guide dumbing down its magazine to the lowest common
> denominator, they could have marketed the magazine to a
> slightly more elite crowd. I think TV Guide will find that
> the competition is a lot more stiff in the entertainment
> magazine business than in the TV listings business. We'll
> see how it goes.

I fully agree with the posters who've said that a TV Guide that tries to be a clone of EW will fail. I've subscribed to both for years, and I can tell you that it won't be EW getting my cancellation call on October 17.

That said - what's the animosity towards Entertainment Weekly? From my point of view as a subscriber since near the beginning, I've always found the magazine to be a couple of steps above People or Us in terms of its intelligence level. Its writers tend to have a sense of humor about what they're doing, it's extremely well-designed and well-edited, and it often covers subjects that are a litte less mainstream than People or, yes, TV Guide. I'd dare say that the average TV Guide reader is a good deal more of a "mindless BLEEP" than the average EW reader.

No, its "What to Watch" section isn't a replacement for what TV Guide did, but it was never meant to be. It does, however, offer a nicely jaded and cynical take on programming. How can you NOT love a listing like the one for ABC's airing of "K-PAX" last weekend - "Sssssssssh. ABC is sleeping."? You won't find that in People...or in TV Guide, new or old.

EW isn't highbrow literature, but that's why I also subscribe to The New Yorker, Harper's and Atlantic Monthly. It fills its niche quite nicely, and I'd miss it if it weren't there each week. Have you picked it up lately?<P ID="signature">______________
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C'mon, Joseph...

> Although the Boston Globe still publishes a Sunday TV
> supplement, the paper will likely cease publishing it
> sometime in the next few months, substituting prime-time
> listings for Sundays somewhere in their Sunday edition.

Wanna bet?

Ask any newspaper editor anywhere about what draws the most reader concern when it's changed, and you'll get four answers: comics, stock listings, sports scores and TV listings.

Name any significant newspaper that's tried to make changes in its Sunday TV book (usually to reduce page count and thus decrease printing costs), and I can show you a sheaf of reader complaints a foot thick about those changes. Here in Rochester, our local rag made the mistake a few years ago of trying to replace its venerable digest-size TV book with a cheaper-to-print tabloid. The firestorm of complaints was loud and fierce, and the old book was back within a few months. A few months ago, they tried to reduce daily TV listings to a bare minimum (a prime-time grid with about a dozen broadcast and cable channels), and again the readers spoke, loudly, and about 20 more cable channels were added back to the listings.

The Sunday Herald is a special case, since it's basically an afterthought to the weekday Herald tabloid, with minimal circulation (well under 200,000 when last I looked, and fading fast) and little home delivery. You could do almost ANYTHING to that paper and nobody would notice.

On the other hand, you take the TV book out of the Sunday Globe that lands on nearly a million doorsteps in New England every weekend, and you'll have lynch mobs on Morrissey Boulevard before Monday morning. Won't happen, at least not in the foreseeable future.

Don't forget that not everyone has a net connection or a cable/dish box with an on-screen program guide. There are plenty of homes that depend on getting listings in print, and that won't change any time soon.<P ID="signature">______________
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