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SUPERNATURAL & REAPER Fans!! TV Guide Drops CW From Listings!! Makes Room For Ion, MyNet, Discovery Health & QVC!!

TV Guide had its place in history... by JediRob	Jan 13th, 2009 12:07:59 AM
...but it is obviously not relevant any longer. It's latest incarnation was a shadow of its former self. That said this is a ridiculous story and one has to wonder at the reasoning and motivation behind it.
Wow that's like the sports section in newspapers by slder78	Jan 13th, 2009 12:10:59 AM
deciding to only cover cricket, darts, and Texas Hold'em poker. Who the hell watches "ion" anyway?
It has not occurred to be to read TV Guide by Kneprock	Jan 13th, 2009 12:12:00 AM
since sometime in the 80's but I do like Supernatural and Reaper. They may be absent from TV Guide but they will not be absent from my screen
Why are we giving them them the.... by jaws8u	Jan 13th, 2009 12:16:44 AM
publicity they are so desperate for. No one gives a shit about TV Guide, and no one important ever did. They could drop every station, and just print blank pages and three people born before the first World War would be the only ones who noticed.
tv guide is obsolete by oisin5199	Jan 13th, 2009 12:18:37 AM
with dvrs, tivos and guides on your cable box or satellite dish. Or any tv listing website. TVguide changed the format of their website and blogs, and they don't have Matt Roush and Ausiello anymore, so there's no reason to go there either. They've tanked.
One final thought... by jaws8u	Jan 13th, 2009 12:18:53 AM
I heard about this 1 dollar sale a few months ago when it happened, and I remember thinking one thing after reading the headline and ignoring the story... "The overpaid."
Scared for a minute by Z 008	Jan 13th, 2009 12:21:25 AM
Thought the headline meant Reaper was disappearing from the CW's schedule or something. Now I'm relieved, who uses TV Guide nowadays anyway?
If my grandmother knew what the CW was... by Ultimo The Duck	Jan 13th, 2009 12:21:50 AM
Man would she ever be pissed. Luckily for her she only watches CSI.
the viewership will drop by another 50% by dmstar	Jan 13th, 2009 12:25:57 AM
cos if ppl dun find it in the guide they will not watch it cos they have too many channels to choose from and they will not know that they dun have those channels!!!!
"I subscribe to the print edition, and MTV and The CW are indeed by jaws8u	Jan 13th, 2009 12:29:03 AM
In the words of Barney Stinson, "Friendship over... FRIENDSHIP OVER!!!"
It seems weird but just picture in your mind who by snowpuff	Jan 13th, 2009 12:49:50 AM
reads TV Guide nowadays. Focus. Can you see the old lady with the three cats? Focus. Yes, there she is. Wouldn't you know it? She IS turning on QVC. I think that's what in their mind and metrics data. But I doubt that even though TV Guide readers watch a lot of QVC that they care what's show is at any time. You have to use such data with some basic intuition too, TV Guide folks...
TV Guide by Alientoast	Jan 13th, 2009 12:58:09 AM
I think the last time I read a TV Guide was about 13 years ago, when I was still in High School and had a job at the local Supermarket. I would read it in an effort overcome the boredom one would frequently experience on a quiet day. Too bad the articles only made up all over 12 pages.
Friday Night Lights back to NBC by mistergreen	Jan 13th, 2009 01:10:10 AM
http://www.nbc.com/Friday_Nigh t_Lights/video/clips/friday-ni ght-lights-preview/915926/
Crazy by Jinxo	Jan 13th, 2009 01:26:52 AM
A magazine based on TV listings that is failing decides to get particular about what listings it lists. Because that will bring in more readers. Madness. In point of fact TV Guide needs to reinvent itself much mroe aggressively. The listings in the magazine are in fact beside the point. If the publishers had a brain in their head they'd ditch the listings entirely and go with all TV news, becoming America's guide to TV news. Still would be hard to make it go as magaiznes in general are on the decline. But right now I think people do see the listings as a waste and avoid buying TV guide because it's a magazine where 75% of the pages are a waste of their time and money. Fill those pages with articles and other content you might grab a few more readers.
Reaper's fun and Supernatural is one of the by Amy Chasing	Jan 13th, 2009 01:27:40 AM
best things on TV at the moment. Is nice to have some shows to not bitch about.
At first.... by Menchekia	Jan 13th, 2009 01:28:14 AM
...I was mad, because I like those Reaper and Supernatural. But then I realized that I only read TV Guide for the articles anyway. I haven't actually looked at the grid since I got DirectTV and now I just push a button to get a grid.
TV Guide is a dinosaur. by Cheif Brody	Jan 13th, 2009 01:32:49 AM
All of our cable & satellite boxes have MORE than ample scheduling grids available. Every news outlets homepage has a quick link to a primetime TV sked with 3 clicks of your mouse. Can't believe TV Guide has lasted THIS long! If you are under 65 and subscribe or buy TV Guide...you must be a big fan of that really tough crossword in the back! "Let's see...5 Down...'Starsky and _ _ _ _ _'...Hmmmm...that's a toughie! Um....12 across...'Leave It To _ _ _ _ _ _'...Dang, this is a HARD one!" RIP TV GUide....and The CW!!
BTW...What the hell are they puttin in the water at NBC? by Cheif Brody	Jan 13th, 2009 01:57:53 AM
Howie Mandel rushed to the hospital for chest pains today... "Pulse or No Pulse?" Law & Order's Mariska Hargitay rushed to the hospital today for a collapsed lung? "Law & Oxygen!" Next, we'll hear KITT threw a rod and blew a head gasket! No surprise NBC Universal is a joint owner of A&E...which airs Patrick Swayze's "The Beast". Weird string of health scares to kick of '09 for the Peacock network. Hmmmm...Maybe it's a strain of 'bird flu'?
Does Frank Costanza still collect TV Guide? by Monkeybrains	Jan 13th, 2009 01:57:59 AM
If he does, he's the only one.
Only thing that makes sense... by Executor	Jan 13th, 2009 02:08:02 AM
...is that TV Guide subscribers are mostly (besides Herc and approximately 4 others) over the age of 40, and well beyond the demographic of gossip girl, real world, MTV, CW stuff.
Well this explains why Ausiello jumped ship by Cash907	Jan 13th, 2009 02:39:24 AM
Apparently he got the scoop that the publication was a sinking ship months before anyone else.
MTV and CW are still on TV Guide. com by Mr Spork	Jan 13th, 2009 02:59:13 AM
Which is a better place to get tv listings than the magazine. The magazine sucks now, it's basically Entertainment Weekly with a few pages of general, non-local tv listings in it.
Don't forgot the Word Sudoku by tonagan	Jan 13th, 2009 04:24:15 AM
I love to do that.
TVG, really? by The McPoyle Clan	Jan 13th, 2009 04:53:36 AM
The print edition, no less? Who needs them when it's so easy to get the TribCo listings from Zap2it?
who still buys TV Guide? by j2talk	Jan 13th, 2009 06:16:29 AM

Oh, and Herc? by ByTor	Jan 13th, 2009 06:58:14 AM
How can they use a smaller typeface? Their readership won't be able to read it. Y'know. What with them being in their sixties and all.
TV Guide wasn't cool when it was cool. by Cletus Van Damme	Jan 13th, 2009 07:21:25 AM
"Hey, let's market a periodical geared towards the demographic with the shittiest possible eyesight and make the print as small as possible. Wait, just as a goof, let's print the whole damn thing about the size of a goddamn greeting card!" Give me a break, TV Guide has been a joke since Lou Grant.
Laugh it up you young hipsters by meCPS	Jan 13th, 2009 07:24:03 AM
Some of us old folk (a staggering 43 years of age, better start saving for my wheelchair) still apreciate the feel of actual paper with ink on it. While I agree with some of the above posters that I don't even look at the grid listings, it does still have some fun articles, weekly highlights, etc... and at the subscription prices it's a steal.
I think TV Guide got me into LOST by turketron	Jan 13th, 2009 07:58:45 AM
My grandmother used to save them for me and I read an issue that had an article about the show back when it was midway through its first season. I was in college at the time, and I fired up the old bit torrents and plowed through the available episodes and have been hooked ever since, hooking friends left and right. I had no idea they were in that much debt though... amazing. The grid is pretty much useless now when you have the tv guide/preview channel, tvguide.com, etc.
"they’re determined to convince us America doesn’t need TV Guide by chrth	Jan 13th, 2009 08:57:17 AM
Uh, we don't. I use the guide from my DVR.
Coaxial has been my TV Guide for the last 4 years. by Shermdawg	Jan 13th, 2009 09:12:07 AM

I can see QVC getting space, but MyNetwork? by Shermdawg	Jan 13th, 2009 09:14:06 AM
They've only got like two shows, Smackdown and that masked magician thing.
Turned to Crap Long Before they Became Irrelevant by _Maltheus_	Jan 13th, 2009 09:42:54 AM
I once read TV Guide. At some point in the last century, I noticed that their grid was almost always wrong. The times were frequently off and even when they weren't they'd say shows were a repeat when they clearly weren't (we're talking schedules that were planned well in advance). I never agreed with the editorials either. They were always chasing last year's buzz and dissing shows purely for lack of ratings. It became completely pointless for me in the course of one year. That's when I stopped buying them. Luckily, the web provided a viable alternative, and although still in its infancy, was much more accurate than TV Guide ever was. Come to think of it, why aren't they out of business yet? Who the fuck still reads it?
Really? by the_patriot	Jan 13th, 2009 09:54:15 AM
First off, I didn't think that TV Guide even published listings anymore once they switched to that crappy EW style format. Shows how long it's been since I've read it. Who in the BLUE FUCK needs to know what's scheduled on QVC? 7am: useless shit to buy. 8am to 11pm: worthless shit to buy. 11pm-7am: shitty informercials about shit to buy. I get that they're trying to focus on the demographic that reads this thing still, but...wow. You think your business is in trouble, so you decide to focus on pleasing a demographic that is dying off and not catering to the demographics that will replace them. Good job. I hope y'all spent that dollar well!!
I gave up on TV Guide a couple of years ago by Big Jim	Jan 13th, 2009 10:49:40 AM
when I realized it took them about 3 weeks (issues) to reflect a schedule change. I was planning on not renewing my subscription but, as it turned out, the Canadian edition of TV Guide was discontinued. I ended up getting a refund. I do have to say, I always enjoyed their preview issues, as well as their "best shows you're not watching" ones - they were always very informative. With TV Guide dumping CW listings, I wonder how nervous NBC is. As the 4th place network, will they be next to be banished?
TV Guide is a joke now. by Zardozap2005	Jan 13th, 2009 10:59:07 AM
With the creation of Tivo and other various DVR's from the major cable and sat companies, TV Guide is no longer necessary. I havent needed to look at TV Guide since I bought my Tivo Series One back in the day. I would expect them to be history at some point in the near future.
Why does TV Guide still exist. by Cotton McKnight	Jan 13th, 2009 11:02:12 AM
Hell, I don't even remember using it before the DVR. I just checked the sunday paper every week. I mean, so many better things have fallen on the wayside the last few years, but TV guide is sticking around? Blah.
ah TV GUIDE by yubnubrocks	Jan 13th, 2009 11:50:01 AM
I used to love it back in the 70s and 80s. But now, yea with DVR, etc. time to go bye bye. On another note, any reason Entertainment Weekly ignores Supernatural? Yes, they list it in their What to Watch but no major articles. C'mon! Give it some exposure!
CHUCK now has better ratings than HEROES by Razorback	Jan 13th, 2009 12:23:35 PM
And yet no talkback... but we talk about this?
GRANDPA FARTS IN HIS SLEEP now has better ratings than HEROES by Cheif Brody	Jan 13th, 2009 01:12:04 PM
...yer point is?
Cotton McKnight by frozen01	Jan 13th, 2009 01:20:29 PM
I had the same thought. I remember stealing my parents' newspaper when I was a kid to see what the plot of the next X-Files episode would be. I thought TVG went under years ago. Never once read TV Guide, except maybe while waiting in the supermarket checkout line.
Besides Gossip Girl, Supernatural, and Reaper by TVguy4566	Jan 13th, 2009 03:02:59 PM
Does The CW even have any other orginal programming? If they do, I am clueless to come up with a name of a show. Is Chris Rock's show still on? There's a model show, right?!? What else? TV Guide is just confirming me something I already know - The CW is irrelevant and barely a network. They should have never merged the WB and UPN. At least before the merger, there were a few shows on the WB I actually watched.
It's all those rubber gloves Howie's been huffing by tangcameo	Jan 13th, 2009 03:14:49 PM
And that Bobby voice. Both deprive what little braincells he has of oxygen. TV Guide has even divorced itself from it's website, taking with it commentators and tv episode commentary in favour of "recaps" of only half the popular shows, done by whichever rats didn't have the smarts to leave the sinking shi-er-ship. TVGuide needed to evolve and revamp but instead, like so many other publications, it's shutting down itself and dying like some cancer patient in palliative care.
Jeers.... by sonnyhooper	Jan 13th, 2009 03:16:02 PM
.....that is all.
FOX cancels GRANDPA FARTS IN HIS SLEEP by Squashua	Jan 13th, 2009 04:45:20 PM
And moves GRANDMA WETS HERSELF to the Friday slot.
Don't you people have digital guides with your service? by Power_Girl	Jan 13th, 2009 10:42:56 PM
Who uses paper these days? Your dopey houses wives who still read gossip rags?
Why? by Potch	Jan 14th, 2009 04:54:02 PM
Why take channels out of the listings? That's just bizarre. Plus, they're still on tvguide.com, so what the heck is the point of removing the listings??

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