October 20, 2006
NOTHING COSTS MORE THAN IT USED TO:
TV Guide tosses its print version: Free online listings coming Nov. 28 (THULASI SRIKANTHAN, Oct. 20, 2006, Toronto Star)
Remember the days of flipping through your TV Guide searching times for The Facts of Life or Diff'rent Strokes?Or perhaps it was The Cosby Show or The Dukes of Hazzard.
You didn't realize it then, but the '80s were the height of TV Guide glory. It was a golden age that saw more than a million copies a week flying off the shelves.
But how times have changed.
Yesterday, Transcontinental Media announced the magazine — 243,695 in circulation at last count — will soon cease print copies and will move online. As of yesterday morning, six people were let go, leaving 28 others behind.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 20, 2006 9:53 AM
Is that just the Canadian edition going web-only, or is the US version to follow it into that long dark night?
Posted by: Mike Morley at October 20, 2006 3:42 PMThe scrolling, "TV Guide" channel has dissapeared from the local (Comcast) analog selection, too. Then again, what started out as a full screen had turned into a lot of yammering idiots above three slowly scrolling lines for 200 channels, so no great loss.
I use the webpage, with channel entries customized to match the ones I haven't blacked out, although I wish they'd quit diddling with the interface.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 20, 2006 6:24 PMoj,
'65 'till mid '71, there were three "must have" subscriptions for me, Playboy, Sports Illustraded and TV Guide, this was with four VHF and 3 UHF channels to keep track of. (Many other magazines were subscribed to, I was a real sucker for the "charter subscriber pitch))
For some forgotten reason, when my company transferred me from Sacramento to San Francisco I didn't even bother forwarding/address changing any of them.
Haven't subscribed to a magazine since then.
The words "TV Guide" remind me of my Grandmother. I'm no kid, as they say.
Posted by: jdkelly at October 20, 2006 6:52 PM