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TBS vs. WGN Which was the better superstation at its peak?

Re: A suggestion

> > I was always used to all Capital Letters for TV listings
> > because TV Guide listed this way until 1996. That was the
> > main reason I used them. But they listed the type of show
> in
> > small letters.
> >
> > 8:30 ROMPER ROOM-Children
> > 10 AM MY FAVORITE MARTIAN-Comedy
>
> I remember that as well, but what worked in print doesn't
> necessarily work online.
>
> Thanks for the response to my suggestion.
>
And, man, did we get letters when that switch was made. But it definitely looks better in upper/lowercase.
 
WOW

> And, man, did we get letters when that switch was made. But
> it definitely looks better in upper/lowercase.

I didn't know we had a (former?) TV Guide employee in our midst.<P ID="signature">______________


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Re: WOW

>
> I didn't know we had a (former?) TV Guide employee in our
> midst.
>
Happily, and healthfully, "former," for a couple of years now.
 
AM DIGUSTED WITH TV GUIDE!!!

> > I didn't know we had a (former?) TV Guide employee in our
> > midst.
> >
> Happily, and healthfully, "former," for a couple of years
> now.
>
TV Guide has gone downhill. It was okay until 2003 sometime. One thing though all along was they were slow to include some stations in their listings. In Tulsa for example they never included 47 KWHB. WHen a UPN or WB Station went on the air they took about 3 months to include it. In South carolina they did not include Channel 43 Myrtle Beach until it became a Fox affiliate.

Still they had good listings but beginning in 2001 they began to include fewer listings and few synopsis of shows after 6 PM. They had more graph listings but still they included listings from the entire brpadcast day. Then in the Fall of 2003 they stopped including overnight listings. They merged weekdays as daytime with charts rather than the list format before 6 PM. By the Winter of 2004 they did not even include listings before 7 AM weekdays or 9 AM Weekends. Daytime listings were worse than in newspapers. IN April of 2004 I just stopped buying TV Guide weekly and cut back to once every month just to get lineups which were still incomplete. In teh Fall of 2004 I just stopped buying altogether. By then they had no channel conversion page which made th guide impossible to deciper.

Anyhow they have gotten even worse with just some network TV listings at night and some cable listings. What is the use of TV Guide without local listings? Anyhow I am sad to see what became of TV Guide. Newspaper listings are coming in handy as well as Yahoo TV.

I seriously miss the TV Guide Magazines the way they were prior to 2003. Is there any hope of it coming back? I wonder
 
Re: AM DIGUSTED WITH TV GUIDE!!!

> I seriously miss the TV Guide Magazines the way they were
> prior to 2003. Is there any hope of it coming back? I wonder

Okay, now that this thread has gone COMPLETELY off-topic (note that I removed your entire off-topic rant ... like we had never heard all that before around here anyway), I will answer your question so that you may wonder no longer.

The sales numbers for the new TV Guide format are strong, so the odds of the original format coming back are approximately the same as hell freezing over.<P ID="signature">______________


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> I never had WGN so i cant say anything about them but TBS in
> the 80s was a great channel.
> I know alot of you probably have had both for years and
> wanted to get your opinion on which one was better in the
> past and even now.
> Its too bad TBS has taken the direction it has. Fewer Braves
> games, no Hawks games, and played out sitcoms and the
> endless reruns of the same 10 movies over and over again.
> But i guess they are doing ok and getting fine ratings.
> WGN vs. TBS Who wins?
>

Same thing....my cable system in Pennsylvania offered TBS and WOR-TV from Secaucus, NJ at the time, so your preference basically depended on whether you rooted for the Mets or Braves. Other than that WOR seemed to let a lot of their local New Jersey programming to out on the bird, which did not seem to interest anyone who did not live there. TBS was more tightly programmed for a national audience. They switched to WGN when WWOR got out of the Superstation business, in the mid-90's I think.

One of the most bizarre things I saw on WOR was an episode of the Morton Downey Jr. show about transsexuals. They featured a doctor who came on and gave a rather graphic description of how the operation is done. His segment took up at least 2/3 of the entire program. Apparently WOR brass felt this was too explicit for 80's basic cable, so they cut the audio. For at least 40 minutes the show was silent, with an occasional voice over announcement saying "Dr. Metzler is giving a graphic description of a sex change operation", while the whole time you could see Downey and his audience just going nuts. It was beautiful!
 
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