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The end of an era: TV Guide Network ending listings on 12/20

"Newspapers still publish listings? Mine hasn't printed a listings supplement for around 3 years. I was under the impression it was a major trend in the newspaper industry."

The Columbian and the Oregonian both do; full grids (broadcast/analogue cable) every single day. On Sundays, at least the Columbian still publish a tabloid-fold magazine section of such grids for the upcoming week ("TV Times").

The O used to do that but I think they stopped in recent years, due to their "cutting back" things in the paper. But then, they've been "cutting back" things in general so much within recent years that it's hard to believe it's even still in print...
 
cd637299 said:
Many (but I assume not all) cable systems do have one channel which scrolls the programming for each channel for the next 2 hours or so.

But I'd say that's the only way around that issue.

cd
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I stayed in a motel at the beach and don't remember any such thing. It seems like a necessity to me.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
vchimpanzee said:
There still need to be listings somewhere. What if you're in a motel and you don't have your newspaper's listings and don't want to haul around a computer?
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Newspapers still publish listings? Mine hasn't printed a listings supplement for around 3 years. I was under the impression it was a major trend in the newspaper industry.
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Mine delivers one each Saturday, printed by another company, but you pay extra for it. In addition to the exorbitant amount I pay for a paper that keeps getting smaller and didn't even bother to tell me Harry Morgan had died.

While setting my TiVo to record certain programs, I realized the process by which I do that is one that also gets me the TV listings. Of course, there are articles and trivia too, and nothing beats the printed version. And I've seen numerous movies aired in the middle of the night after looking at those printed listings, something I wouldn't have thought of when looking at TiVo.
 
Just before TVG stopped doing local editions, I remember the whole "VCR Plus" codes that TVG included next to each program....the magazine started to be a "mouthful." You could picture in your mind what TiVo information would do to it.

Add to that, the hundreds of cable channels nowadays, PLUS, for those who don't even have cable, the subchannels of your local TV stations.....could you imagine what a "local" TV Guide would look like today? It'd be maybe as thick as a Kelly's Blue Book (is that what they're called?)....

What I like about Zap2it, and I am sure other sites like it, is that for even the classic TV reruns, they list the exact episode coming up (interestingly, most of the time, with its original air date)---something even the last TVG's didn't do. One advantage of living in the 21st Century....

cd
 
vchimpanzee said:
cd637299 said:
Many (but I assume not all) cable systems do have one channel which scrolls the programming for each channel for the next 2 hours or so.

But I'd say that's the only way around that issue.

cd
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I stayed in a motel at the beach and don't remember any such thing. It seems like a necessity to me.
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Not to many folks. :)
 
All the major newspapers around here - the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Akron Beacon Journal, the Canton Repository and the Youngstown Vindicator - still print the grids in each daily paper.

But most of them are only focused on prime-time, and information beyond the grids is limited.
 
Until recently, the St. Petersburg Times published daily listings that were focused on prime-time and the local and most-popular cable channels, but since October, restricted the listings to its Sunday TV magazine only -- which last week changed its size from a magazine format to a tabloid format.
 
For some weird reason, TV Guide Network on Time Warner here in L.A. still has the rolling guide. How can that be if TVGN supposedly ended this service on December 20?
 
Mastaclocksetta said:
For some weird reason, TV Guide Network on Time Warner here in L.A. still has the rolling guide. How can that be if TVGN supposedly ended this service on December 20?
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Apparently, the decision to discontinue the listings varies according to the system's option, and even if it's discontinued by one system in one part of the country, another system in another part of the country owned by the same country might offer it.
 
TV listings for Comcast Cablevision of Mobile (Alabama) are still scrolling.
 
Still scrolling on Comcast in Albuquerque too!
 
Cablevision still has their own original scrolling listings channel (i.e. Prevue Guide without all the bells and whistles - and with a lot of Cablevision promos) on Channel 14 - or at least they did when I left them for FiOS last year...
 
2 to 3 years ago, there was speculation that the TV Guide Network would discontinue the on-screen grid. Following the announcement, all Time Warner Cable clusters in Texas as well as Mediacom dropped the network in that same year.

R.I.P. Prevue/TV Guide Channel/Network I once knew.
 
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