The paper is directing readers to their website to view full listings:
http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2013/02/la-times-eliminates-tv-listings.html
http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2013/02/la-times-eliminates-tv-listings.html
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L.A. Times Phases Out TV Listings
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searadiofreak
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I'm old enough to remember when tv listings was a nice service of newspapers.
Things are much different today. I don't think competition between print and broadcast is really important anymore. What does it matter if most can check tv listings much more efficiently on the web, or on their service itself. Add on DVR, and there is really no reason for tv stations to list in the local paper, except for the 70+ crowd, who won't matter within the decade. Not to be insensitive to those, but this is the reality.
I think the last time I looked up a tv listing via newspaper was 1996, about the time the internet came into mainstream play.
What bothers me more, however, is I used to love newspapers, and now I couldn't care less. This is the main problem.
Things are much different today. I don't think competition between print and broadcast is really important anymore. What does it matter if most can check tv listings much more efficiently on the web, or on their service itself. Add on DVR, and there is really no reason for tv stations to list in the local paper, except for the 70+ crowd, who won't matter within the decade. Not to be insensitive to those, but this is the reality.
I think the last time I looked up a tv listing via newspaper was 1996, about the time the internet came into mainstream play.
What bothers me more, however, is I used to love newspapers, and now I couldn't care less. This is the main problem.
searadiofreak said:I'm old enough to remember when tv listings was a nice service of newspapers.
Things are much different today. I don't think competition between print and broadcast is really important anymore. What does it matter if most can check tv listings much more efficiently on the web, or on their service itself. Add on DVR, and there is really no reason for tv stations to list in the local paper, except for the 70+ crowd, who won't matter within the decade. Not to be insensitive to those, but this is the reality.
I think the last time I looked up a tv listing via newspaper was 1996, about the time the internet came into mainstream play.
What bothers me more, however, is I used to love newspapers, and now I couldn't care less. This is the main problem.
To support the San Francisco Chronicle, I buy it at the BART (train) station about 3 days a week, for 50 cents - half the cover price. But otherwise, I spend more time on their website than reading the actual newspaper. Gathering from my fellow train riders, who are usually concentrating on their smart phones, tablets, or laptops, I am an anachronism. Newspapers are as good as dead.
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Thomps2525
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Two years ago, the Daily News discontinued most of their tv listings and their weekly tv log. The daily paper now lists programs for only nine local channels and only from 3 pm to midnight...but, hey, you can now pay extra for a tv log to be delivered along with the Sunday paper! What a deal! The Times and Daily News have discontinued tv logs and radio logs and stock quotations and shrunk the size of their Sunday comics sections to only four pages of comics crammed five or six to a page and printed so tiny that many people can't read them without the aid of a magnifying glass.
The reason newspaper circulation is declining can't be blamed solely on the Internet!
The reason newspaper circulation is declining can't be blamed solely on the Internet!
LARadioRewind said:Two years ago, the Daily News discontinued most of their tv listings and their weekly tv log. The daily paper now lists programs for only nine local channels and only from 3 pm to midnight...but, hey, you can now pay extra for a tv log to be delivered along with the Sunday paper! What a deal! The Times and Daily News have discontinued tv logs and radio logs and stock quotations and shrunk the size of their Sunday comics sections to only four pages of comics crammed five or six to a page and printed so tiny that many people can't read them without the aid of a magnifying glass.
The reason newspaper circulation is declining can't be blamed solely on the Internet!
Add the Arizona Republic to that list.
And in my neck of the woods, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald recently re-launched a TV supplement after several years of only offering a prime-time grid in the daily paper (which got dropped when the supplement relaunched). They're offering it to 6-day a week customers (the Sunday edition was dropped at the same time) for 75c/week.
hm insulators said:LARadioRewind said:The reason newspaper circulation is declining can't be blamed solely on the Internet!
Add the Arizona Republic to that list.
If the print edition of the Arizona Repulsive was just an accurate TV section (as opposed to what they show in the sports section of their website) and comics, then it would be worth more than it is now. ;D
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