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TV Guide
Categories Listings magazine
Frequency Weekly
First issue April 3, 1953
Company Gemstar-TV Guide International
Country United States
Language English
Website TVGuide.com
ISSN 0039-8543

TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada, as well as their companion websites. A listings magazine is a magazine which contains information about the upcoming weeks events such as TV Listings, Music, Clubs, Theatre Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc was a media company that licensed interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators such as cable and satellite television providers The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States An International Standard Serial Number ( ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic Periodical publication. Although the magazines share the same name and a similar logo, they are owned by different companies and publish distinct editorial content. The term is also commonly used to describe other TV listings appearing on the web and in newspapers. tvguides. ca is an active site registered since 2003. [1] Read/Write Web published "Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared. " [2] Techcrunch in 2006 offered "Overview: The End of Paper TV Guides. " [3] TV Guides is also the name of an interactive video and sound installation produced in 1995 with assistance from the Canada Council and shown at SIGGRAPH 1999. [4] National TV guides are also published in other countries, but none of these are believed to be affiliated with the North American publication. In the United Kingdom, the Radio Times and TV Times are amongst the most popular. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For the US radio series see WHYY-FM. Radio Times is the BBC 's weekly Television and Radio programme In Germany, people have the choice of about 50 different TV Guides; some of them showing the TV listings for the next 2 or even 4 weeks ahead. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. In Australia, during the 1970s a version of TV Guide was published under license by Southdown Press. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. But that version soon merged with its competitor publication, TV Week, in 1980. TV WEEK is a weekly Television Magazine in Australia, first published as a Melbourne -only publication in 1957 (as TV Week has a very similar logo to the TV Guide logo. New Zealand has is a digest-sized publication called TV Guide, although it is not linked in any way to either the United States or Canadian publications. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island It has the biggest circulation of any national magazine, and is published by Fairfax Media. [5]Mexico offers a digest-sized publication called TV Guía, unrelated with the US publication. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. It is published by Editorial Televisa. Televisa is a Mexican multimedia company and is the largest media company in the Spanish -speaking world and a major player in the international entertainment

In addition to TV listings, the publications feature television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews. Some even featured horoscope listings and crossword puzzles.

Contents

United States Magazines

Related link: List of TV Guide editions

The national TV Guide was first published on April 3, 1953. These are the regional editions of TV Guide and the markets they served and the periods they existed Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Its premiere issue cover featured a photograph of Lucille Ball's and Desi Arnaz's newborn son, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Related link: List of TV Guide covers

TV Guide as a national publication resulted from Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications' purchase of numerous regional television listing publications such as TV List, TV Forecast, TV Digest, Television Guide and TV Guide. Lucille Ball (August 6 1911 – April 26 1989 was an American comedienne, film television stage and radio Actress, model, film Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) ( March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban American Desi Arnaz Jr (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV on January 19, 1953) is an American Actor and Musician and son of entertainers This is a list of issues of TV Guide magazine with its cover subjects and their artists (photographer or illustrator Walter Hubert Annenberg ( March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American billionaire publisher, philanthropist The launch as a national publication with local listings in April, 1953 became an almost instant success with the magazine becoming the most read and circulated magazine in the country by the 1960s. The initial cost was just 15¢ per copy. In addition to subscriptions, TV Guide was sold from familiar grocery store counters nationwide. Until the 1970s, each issue's features were promoted in a television commercial. Under Triangle Publications, TV Guide continued to grow not only in circulation, but in recognition as the authority on television programming with articles from both staff and contributing writers. Over the decades the shape of the logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the television screen. At first, the logo had various color backgrounds (usually black, white, blue or green) until the familiar red background became a standard in the 1960s with occasional changes to accommodate a special edition.

Under Triangle Publications, TV Guide was first based in a small office in downtown Philadelphia until moving to more spacious national headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania in the late 1950s. Like many of the elite communities of Philadelphia's Main Line, Radnor is a picturesque enclave in Radnor Township Pennsylvania in Delaware County The new facility, complete with a large lighted TV Guide logo at the building's entrance, was home to management, editors, production personnel, subscription processors as well as a vast computer system holding data on every show and movie available for listing in the popular weekly publication. Printing of the national color section of TV Guide took place at Triangle's Gravure Division plant adjacent to Triangle's landmark Philadelphia Inquirer Building on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The color section was then sent to regional printers to be wrapped around the local listing sections. Triangle's Gravure Division was known for performing some of the highest quality printing in the industry with almost always perfect registration.

Triangle Publications in addition to TV Guide owned The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, 16 radio and television stations (WFIL AM-FM-TV Philadelphia, PA, WNHC AM-FM-TV New Haven, CT, KFRE AM-FM-TV Fresno, CA, WNBF AM-FM-TV Binghamton, NY, WFBG AM-FM-TV Altoona, PA and WLYH-TV Lancaster/Lebanon, PA) The Daily Racing Form, The Morning Telegraph, and Seventeen magazine and various cable TV interests. The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily Newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United The Philadelphia Daily News is a Tabloid newspaper that began publishing on March 31, 1925, under founding editor Lee Ellmaker WFIL is the name of a radio station and also the former name of a television station serving the city of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. WBEB, known as B101, is a Soft Rock / Adult Contemporary radio station which is broadcast in the Philadelphia area WPVI-TV, channel 6 is an owned-and-operated station of the Walt Disney Company -owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania WPLR (also known as 991 PLR or ' Connecticut's #1 Rock Station') based out of New Haven Connecticut, is a rock station owned by Cox Radio. WTNH, channel 8 is the ABC affiliate for the state of Connecticut, licensed to New Haven and serving the Hartford /New Haven television market Radio Vida Abundante is a Radio network, broadcasting Spanish language Christian programming KSKS is a commercial Radio station located in Fresno California, broadcasting on 93 KFSN-TV is the ABC owned and operated Television station in Fresno California. WBNG-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Binghamton New York. WTAJ-TV is the CBS Affiliate in Altoona Pennsylvania. It transmits its analog signal on VHF channel 10 and its digital signal on UHF WLYH-TV, CW 15, is the CW Television Network affiliate in the Susquehanna Valley region of Pennsylvania. The Daily Racing Form is a publication about Horse racing. It is sold at Racetracks, Casinos Sports books, Supermarkets It was under Triangle's ownership of WFIL in Philadelphia that Dick Clark and American Bandstand came to popularity. Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an American Television, Radio personality, Game show host American Bandstand was a Television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark Triangle Publications sold its Philadelphia newspapers to Knight Newspapers in 1969, its radio and television stations during the early 1970s to Capital Cities Communications and various other interests retaining only TV Guide, Seventeen Magazine and the Daily Racing Form which were also later sold to News America Corporation in the late 1980s in one of the largest media deals of the time. For the unrelated television series see Knight Rider. For other articles see Knight Rider (disambiguation Knight Ridder Capital Cities redirects here For the article about the seat of a government see Capital. Seventeen is an American Magazine for teenagers. It was first published in 1944. News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation

The advent of cable TV was hard on TV Guide. Because most cable systems have a separate guide channel on the remote that opens up to available programming, a printed listing of programming in a separate magazine became less valuable. The sheer amount and diversity of cable TV programming made it hard for TV Guide to provide listings of the extensive array of programming that came directly over the cable system. TV Guide also could not match the ability of the cable box to store personalized listings. TV Guide's circulation went from almost 20 million in 1970 to less than three million in 2007.

From its inception until 2003, TV Guide offered listings for the entire week, 24 hours a day. Beginning with the June 21, 2003 issue (in just a few select markets), the 5am-5pm Monday-Friday listings were condensed down to four grids: 5am-8am, 8am-11am, 11am-2pm, 2pm-5pm. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. If programming differed from one weekday to the next, "Various Programs" was listed. This change became permanent in all TV Guide editions beginning with the 2003 Fall Preview issue. Beginning in January 2004, the midnight-5am listings (and also 5am-8am on the Saturday and Sunday listings) did not include any out-of-town broadcast stations, just the edition's home market. Starting in June 2004 in most editions the channel line up page showing the stations for each local edition was dropped. Starting in July 2004 the overnight listings were taken out entirely, replaced by a grid that ran from 11pm-2am and had the edition's home market broadcast stations, with a handful of cable stations. It also listed a small selection of late-night movies on some channels. The daytime grids also changed from the 5am-5pm listings, to 7am-7pm. In early 2005 more channels were added to the prime-time and late night grids. The magazine also changed format to start the week's issue with Sunday listings, rather than Saturday listings, changing a tradition that started from the magazine's first issue.

On May 18, 2005, TV Guide launched TV Guide Talk, a weekly podcast available for free. Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. TV Guide Talk was a weekly Podcast released by the American entertainment industry publication TV Guide. A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download The podcast is headlined by TV Guide reporter/personality Michael Ausiello, and is co-hosted by his co-workers, Angel Cohn, Daniel Manu, and Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide was purchased from Triangle in 1999 by United Video Satellite Group, parent company of the Prevue Networks, which itself was later purchased by the maker of the VCR Plus device and schedule system, Gemstar-TV Guide International, partially owned by News Corporation. Michael Ausiello is an American television industry journalist and sometimes actor Maitland McDonagh (ˈmeɪtlənd mɨkˈdɒnə is an American Film critic and the Author of several books about cinema. For the CNC Programming language, see G-code. VCR Plus+, G-Code Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc was a media company that licensed interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators such as cable and satellite television providers

On July 26, 2005, Gemstar announced that TV Guide would change in format from its digest size format to a larger full-size national magazine that will offer more stories and fewer TV listings. Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Digest size is a Magazine size smaller than a conventional size magazine but larger than a standard Paperback book approximately 5½ x 8¼ Inches but All 140 local editions were also eliminated, being replaced by two editions, one for Eastern/Central time zones and one for Pacific/Mountain. The change in format was attributed to the increase in the Internet, cable TV channels (like TV Guide Network), electronic program guides, TiVo, as the sources of choice for viewers' program listings. TiVo (pronounced ˈtiːvoʊ is a brand of Digital video recorder (DVR in the United States, Canada, and Australia created by TiVo

The new version of TV Guide hit stores on October 17, 2005, and featured Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on the cover. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost Tygert Bruton "Ty" Pennington (b October 19 1965, Atlanta Georgia) is a Carpenter and TV personality Extreme Makeover Home Edition, sometimes shortened EMHE, is an Emmy Award -winning Reality television series providing Home renovations The listings format, now consisted entirely of grids, also changed format to start the week's issue with Monday listings, rather than Sunday listings.

In September 2006, TV Guide launched a redesigned website with expanded original editorial and user generated content not included in the print magazine. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages

On December 22, 2006, TV Guide introduced the magazine's first ever two-week edition. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The edition, which has Rachael Ray on the cover, was issued for the week of December 25, 2006 to January 7, 2007. Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968 in Glens Falls, New York) is a two-time Daytime Emmy nominated television personality Events 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

U. S. TV

In the 1990s, TV Guide was acquired by the Prevue Channel, which was then renamed[TV Guide Channel]]. TV Guide Network (formerly known as TV Guide Channel, Prevue Channel and Prevue Guide) is a Cable network produced by Macrovision Like its predecessor, it scrolls TV listings on the bottom portion of the screen. However the top portion now features celebrity gossip, movie talk, and commercials (in addition to the movie trailers that once took up the bulk of the Prevue Channel's programing). Until recently, the programs on the TV Guide Channel generally only lasted from 30 seconds to a minute, and thus were usually scheduled to play on the hour (for instance a show might appear at 12:45 and again at 1:45). Today, TV Guide Network (as it has been branded since June 4, 2007) runs full length programming, including programs such as the weekly entertainment news magazine The 411, and red carpet event coverage, originally hosted by Joan and Melissa Rivers. TV Guide Network (formerly known as TV Guide Channel, Prevue Channel and Prevue Guide) is a Cable network produced by Macrovision In 2007, the mother-daughter duo were unceremoniously dropped by TV Guide in favor of Lisa Rinna, whose popularity had been on the rise in the wake of her recent appearance on Dancing with the Stars. Lisa Deanna Rinna (born July 11, 1963) is an American actress. Dancing with the Stars is a Reality show airing on American Broadcasting Company in the United States. In May, 2007, Gemstar media re-named the TV Guide Channel to the TV Guide Network, stating that the new name reflects a new direction towards more original content and entertainment features in additional to its traditional listings function.

Canada

TV Guide Canada logo

For many years, the Canadian edition of TV Guide was virtually the same as the US version, right down to the US ads in the colour section (prior to the mid-1970s, some Canadian TV Guide editions were also sold in some border American markets). The only differences were the price (in 1972, the US edition was 15¢, while in Canada, it was 25¢) and the publisher (the "Saturday" listings featured the disclaimer, "This Canadian magazine is distributed, assembled and prepared by McMurray Publishing Company, Ltd. . . . "). At least eleven editions were available across the country covering the major cities.

Beginning in January 1977, however, the magazine split off on its own, at first using some of the same stories and covers as the US version, but eventually publishing completely different editorial content, often with a Canadian focus although the Canadian edition also published features and photos on American productions that did not appear in the US version. The magazine, which otherwise uses a similar logo to that of the American version, was published by Transcontinental Media. A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign) Transcontinental Inc () is a major Canadian Newspaper and Magazine A series of sharp price increases were applied, rising to 30¢, 35¢, and ultimately close to a dollar per issue.

In 2004, the magazine changed its format from a digest size, similar to the American version, to a larger format (similar in size to a comic book). A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The need to keep the page count reasonable while listing an increased number of channels was cited in the first new issue as the primary rationale for moving to larger pages. With the change in format came the decision by the magazine to cease printing 24-hour listings; overnight programming was left off in order to focus on more frequently viewed hours, which elicited reader complaints.

As of November 5, 2005, the Canadian TV Guide was reduced from the six remaining editions to two, one for Eastern Canada and one for Western Canada. Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany)

After receiving numerous complaints about the new format (one which severely condensed cross-country listings), changes were introduced in the November 26 edition. A year-end double issue for the December 24, 2005 to January 6, 2006 period was entirely in colour and included further scaled back listings.

On October 19, 2006, Transcontinental announced it would cease publication of the Canadian edition, with the last issue to be dated November 25 (and on newsstands November 20). Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Transcontinental said TV Guide will be transitioned to a "web publication", as the defunct magazine's website will be expanded.

The new website is now (December 1st, 2006) active at http://www.tvguide.ca and is being hosted by Sympatico/MSN. MSN (The M icro' s' oft N etwork is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. Once a cable/satellite provider has been selected, all channels appear (the list cannot currently be edited to remove unwanted channels). The grid is fixed at a two-hour width, requiring "scrolling" (actually a page refresh) to see anything outside this range. "VCR Plus" numbers are not available.

On May 6, 2007, Transcontinental Media announced that TV Guide Canada would come back and roll off the press once a season. No TV listings will be included, just stories. The first issue, published in the summer of 2007, was a special tribute issue commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. The new re-launched magazine was called TVGUIDE. CA Special Tribute. Subsequently, on September 27, 2007, the company announced that www. tvguide. ca would once again include categories for listings, times, and new indicators for episodes on the TV Guide website.

2007 Daytime TV Awards

Best Show: One Life To Live Best Actor: Jon Hensley (Holden Snyder, As The World Turns) Best Actress: Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman, The Young And The Restless) Best Supporting Actor: Carolyn Hennesy (Diane Miller, General Hospital) Best Supporting Actress: Graham Shields (Cody, General Hospital: Night Shift)

In popular culture

Notes

See also

References

  1. ^ http://whois.domaintools.com/tvguides.ca
  2. ^ Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared - ReadWriteWeb
  3. ^ Overview: The End of Paper TV Guides
  4. ^ TV Guides by Don Ritter
  5. ^ Fairfax Media: Publications

External links

These are the regional editions of TV Guide and the markets they served and the periods they existed This is a list of issues of TV Guide magazine with its cover subjects and their artists (photographer or illustrator TV Guide Network (formerly known as TV Guide Channel, Prevue Channel and Prevue Guide) is a Cable network produced by Macrovision The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time is a list of American TV series compiled by TV Guide as a cover story for the week of May 4 The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time was a list compiled by TV Guide, which included the 50 greatest American Game shows ever The 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time is a list compiled by TV Guide for the Cover story for the week of July 20, 2002.
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