triviageek

TV-Guide magazine as it has existed for the past few months has become a pet peeve of mine. Before that I was a long-time reader of the magazine (often a cover-to-cover reader, in fact). Yet thanks to changes inspired, no doubt, by the "vision" of it's current owner, what was once the supreme authority for "what's on TV tonight?"; has instead become a piece of junk that doesn't even carry a FULL LISTING of TV programming!!!

Why, oh why would any owner of a magazine STOP providing it's basic content? It sure defies logic to me, but that is EXACTLY what the idiot has done. For the past several months, TV-Guide has no longer provided 24 hour coverage of TV programming; instead it has been providing only listings for "prime time".

And I stopped buying the magazine.

As have, apparently, many others.

Now in the latest bid to destroy what little remains of the magazine, the current owner has decided to further limit the listings of TV programming -- thus turning the magazine into another show-biz gossip rag. Ho-hum.

At this point my only speculation is how long it'll take, before it ceases publication entirely. (Not that I care, anyway).