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TV Guide Network now full screen

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Anybody else notice that TV Guide Network is now full screen without the scrolling listings? Does your cable company carry it without the listings? I just noticed it on mine (Cable One) yesterday.

Of course I could care less since I look in TV Week that comes with my paper (Sun Herald) but the thing is it doesn't have 24 hour listings for all channels or it will say movie or various on other times also. I did watch TV Guide Network for whats on overnight, not that theres not that theres anything on with most channels having infomercials (such as TV Guide Network)

I do miss it when it was Prevue Guide and later Prevue Channel, particularly for the background music such as the one they would play during Prevue Tonight, local ads with text, and the logo and channel number for various networks. Does anybody know what the name of the music in these 2 youtube clips and/or know how I can find out. Anyway, enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP5XM7yPXAU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw8Ti9rmoRU

This next one has the names of the music in the description and somebody commenting on the below the video on where to get it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Veqt11Uwmg&feature=related
 
The clips in order are from greater Boston, Portland (OR) and Chicago. as for the music? I can't help you with that one. :(
 
When I had Directv they were full screen over a year ago.IO then went to my local cable company and they are partial screen wioth the TV listings.
 
COMCAST here in Hanover, Pa. shows the scrollings on two channels. Channel 8 and Channel 100. We really don't need either one. There is much better listings on the digital portion.
 
I suspect the computer at the cable headend in question that generates the listings on-screen has failed, thus why you are getting full screen listings.
 
With digital tv being the future, many cable companies are offering deals on digital boxes that include tv listings for up to a week from the current date anyway, so why worry if tv guide network were to suddenly eliminate listings??

Besides, don't all sattelite dish companies offer a tv listing on their digital box anyway?
Haven't they for years?
 
Sometimes those digital listings can be not working which happens sometimes. Also the logos for some networks aren't even updated. They still show the old UPN logo on the listing graphic. I don't know why Time Warner doesn't update them.
 
jal41 said:
I suspect the computer at the cable headend in question that generates the listings on-screen has failed, thus why you are getting full screen listings.
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Doesn't the satellite networks have their own scrolling listings, if not on a channel, accessible via remote control?

And besides, if you get TV Guide Channel without the listings... that pretty much defeats the purpose of having it in the first place!
 
DToTheJ said:
Doesn't the satellite networks have their own scrolling listings, if not on a channel, accessible via remote control?

And besides, if you get TV Guide Channel without the listings... that pretty much defeats the purpose of having it in the first place!
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All satellite and digital cable systems have interactive program guides. This is why the TV Guide Network has been shifting its focus (slowly) from the scrolling listings at the bottom to the long-form programming on top.

Like with the Weather Channel, cable providers have to install a computer at the headend to generate the local information. As more and more cable goes digital, I am sure cable companies don't want to have to deal with any more equipment than is needed. While the Weather Channel must have the localized computer equipment for it's survival, TV Guide Network can possibly transition away from it without any issues (other than loss of a scrolling EPG).

The scrolling listings will be gone in a couple of years, and the TV Guide Network will air long-form programming full screen with only local ad-insertions.
 
Ah, but what is the tv guide network licenced to be?
A channel for tv listings?
Or another channel for regular viewing?

Do they have the freedom to just be another tv station or do they actually have to go to the FCC and requst change?
 
Yeziknoradio said:
Ah, but what is the tv guide network licenced to be?
A channel for tv listings?
Or another channel for regular viewing?

Do they have the freedom to just be another tv station or do they actually have to go to the FCC and requst change?
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The FCC has no jursidiction over cable networks, just cable service providers. Cable networks can do anything, including broadcasting indecent and obsecene material, as they wish. You are thinking of Canada, where cable channels are regulated.
 
It was an error on the cable's headend. They have listings back on as of yesterday. Like I care though since I get my listings elsewhere (The TV Week that comes in the paper)
 
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