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Some more questions for the fellow collectors:

1) Did your edition have something odd that you really didn't see in a lot of other ones? I can remember some LA TV Guides (around 1997) not only having the 6 hour prime-time grid (from 6pm to midnight), but additionally on the weekends, a noon to 6pm grid as well.

2) Was your edition ever a test for any features that were rolled out to all TVG's later on?
 
Houston did have the TV Guide - Ultimate Cable edition for a while - unusual in that it wasn't tied to the cable provider (on the shelf at local stores).

I recall back in 92 when Nashville and Rochester tested a large format edition (and later found out that Pittsburgh had one too...). Early on in the test, the channels just had regular numbers (not the normal bullets), but at some point, they switched to normal bullets for the channel numbers. I was traveling through Nashville at the time and stopped at the store and there were no TV Guides in the checkout stand racks - and I was bummed. Then I found the large format and was a little intrigued.

Jim
 
I also recall when the Washington-Baltimore edition "split" - It was the same edition, but the channel/cable listings was initially on a tear-out card (either for Baltimore or Washington), later the cable lineup pages were Baltimore or Washington specific, but the rest of the guide was the same for everyone.

They also didn't list the edition name at the bottom of pages (a la "Houston Edition"), but had either "Baltimore Edition" or "Washington Edition" stamped across the cover logo.

Also early on (80s, early 90s), where there were multiple editions in a market (e.g., New York City: New York Metropolitan; Brooklyn/Bronx, Staten Island, TCI of Northern New Jersey, etc.), TV Guide had a geometric symbol on the spine (circle, triangle, square) so that you could (if you realized it) quickly tell by the spine which version you had.

Jim
 
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