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Remember TV Guide? Is it still around?

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I cannot remember 1 week Dad did not buy TV Guide. It sat on the coffee table, right next to his beer!
I liked TV Guide! It told me what's gonna be on Creature Feature or what time that Christopher Lee Dracula movie is gonna be on!

Sort of,  it's changed a lot.

How? I didn't even know if it still existed. Does it still exist in a regional form? Like for Southwest Michigan? I dunno. Every things cable now. Or apps on a Roku. So that would seem impossible! I dunno!  :question:
I don't reckon it's a top seller anymore. I don't think any magazines are. We have the internet!  :twirl:
I don't think that's a bad thing. But dumping one for the other....
I could live without internet-and have most of my life- because I have books.

Last one I saw used some sort of weekly grid, totally different format that old TV guide. I can hardly remember how bad it was.

No cool covers by great cartoonists no more?

All i really  remember about the new style tvg is that it sucked royally.

Yeah, well, I reckon it's just me felling old again.  

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I thought it was now online only but it looks like you can still order a subscription. Looks like "People" magazine.

Print magazines are becoming real niche/specialty items. Too bad.

i go to the TV guide website because they have some pretty good recap writers there.

You could always get me to give you spoilers.  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

"People"! That f**king thing... always at the doctors office, along with Better Homes and Gardens and Reader's Digest.

I assumed TV Guide died almost immediately after literally every cable service had a guide built in.
On top of that, cable itself is dying because streaming is absolutely kicking its ass.
Honestly I don't even know how magazines stay alive in the digital age.

Although I am glad magazines still exist. I always get a laugh out of looking at the cover of the National Enquirer at the checkout of a grocery isle.
You'd think they'd have already been sued into the ground with all the wacky, blatantly incorrect, bulls**t they spew on a regular basis. Clickbait before clicks.

 

yeah right. and kindly note that i said RECAPS, lol! but you, you'd rewrite those too, and tell me the american version is different!  :bouncegiggle: :twirl: :tongueout: :teddyr: :cheers:

I was only six but I remember seeing the TV Guide cover when Roots came out:
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I grew up watching this channel. It was a Boston area staple throughout my childhood. They showed reruns of stuff like I LOVE LUCY and THE BRADY BUNCH. Every night they showed a movie from 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. (Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, old war movies, etc., usually heavily edited for content and to fit the 2-our time slot with commercial interruptions every 12 minutes). For awhile they showed reruns of YOU BET YOUR LIFE on weekend nights around 11:00 or 12:00. Great memories.

We had DOUBLE CREATURE FEATURE that aired out of South Bend, Indiana Channel 28 in Paw Paw, Michigan. But I saw FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR at about 1 in the afternoon on  28 when they cancelled a baseball game! I dunno- about 1972?

yup, 56 and 32 were the treasures of my childhood!