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TV Guide Network Continues March Toward Not Being TV Guide Network

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

TV Guide Network's focus continues to be radically shifted under the ownership of Lionsgate. It started last year with the acquisition of "Ugly Betty" reruns; now, they have acquired the rights to air "Weeds":
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P0NL20100326

At what point will they just drop the "TV Guide Network" name? Do they still have program listings? I know someone on this board predicted they will do away with those listings, at some point.

How I pine for Prevue Guide.
 
DToTheJ said:
TV Guide Network's focus continues to be radically shifted under the ownership of Lionsgate. It started last year with the acquisition of "Ugly Betty" reruns; now, they have acquired the rights to air "Weeds":
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P0NL20100326

At what point will they just drop the "TV Guide Network" name? Do they still have program listings? I know someone on this board predicted they will do away with those listings, at some point.

How I pine for Prevue Guide.
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They'll drop their name after MTV and The Weather Channel rebrand. Then again I can see TV Gyd Network first. :D
 
It really pisses me off when I go to the TV Guide Channel and they have the little scroll at the bottom. I want to see the Programming Guide when I go to the TV Guide Channel. I don't care to see a Movie on there that I seen 10 years ago elsewhere. I want to see the programming listings.
 
DToTheJ said:
TV Guide Network's focus continues to be radically shifted under the ownership of Lionsgate. It started last year with the acquisition of "Ugly Betty" reruns; now, they have acquired the rights to air "Weeds":
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P0NL20100326

At what point will they just drop the "TV Guide Network" name? Do they still have program listings? I know someone on this board predicted they will do away with those listings, at some point.

How I pine for Prevue Guide.
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They already ditched the listings completely on cable systems which relegate it to a digital-only channel where the listings are completely useless. I think it'll be a couple years before they go away fully in order to satisfy cable agreements where they can throw out the 'providing listings' clause.
 
But the truth is, who needs scrolling TV guides now?
Same when most newspapers stopped printing out TV guides in the Sunday paper, now that almost every person that has cable has access to interactive guide features (even DTV sets do), TV Guide Channel's 'TV listings' isn't where they're going to get people to watch, or any revenue.
They want to compete with E! and eventually move away from being a network known for listings and a network known for entertainment
 
Mainedude2007 said:
radiojomo said:
But the truth is, who needs scrolling TV guides now?
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Nobody.......isn't TV Guide (the print edition) going away from being a TV Guide?
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My subscription to TV Guide ran out about the same time they went to the larger edition and dropped local listings. I haven't missed it being gone.
 
I'm in college at UVA and I promise you plenty of people here still use the TV Guide channel for listings.

- Trip
 
Are they becoming the next Lifetime? I swear the movie the TV Guide Channel has scheduled for 11AM Eastern this morning could have been stolen from Lifetime.

I'm paraphrasing from my COMCAST ON SCREEN GUIDE:

"Stolen Innocence" 1995 - Tracy Gold - An 18 year old woman falls in live with a trucker who then kidnaps her.

Sounds like a typical movie you'd see on Lifetime.

P.S. We have TV Guide on both Digital Channels 72 & 100 and as previously mentioned in other threads about The TV Guide Channel not all the channels match the actual listings and haven't in the nearly one year I've been a Comcast subscriber. My parents have COX and their TV Guide Channel on Channel 19 is correct.
 
In my mountain west market, TV Guide on basic cable fills the screen about 60/40 with programming/listings. They seem to run a lot of "Idol" programming, both current and past, but I did see that the movie "Risky Business" ran over the weekend.

I rarely use their listings, instead choosing on-line "Titan" for that.
 
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