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TV Guide

TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.[2][3]

This article is about the TV Guide company. For the formerly co-owned print magazine, see TV Guide (magazine). For the general usage of the term, see TV listings. For other uses, see TV Guide (disambiguation).

Industry

Media, information

1953 (1953)

Walter Annenberg

New York City
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U.S.

Television program listings information

Fandom, Inc. (2022–present)[1]

tvguide.com

The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008.[4]

"TV We'll Always Remember" (April 6–12): Our Favorite Stars Share Fifty Years of Memories, Moments and Magic"

"Our 50 Greatest Covers of All Time (June 15–21): Fabulous Photos of Your Favorite Shows and Stars Plus: Amazing Behind-the-Scenes Stories"

"50 Worst Shows of All Time (July 20–26): Not Just Bad! Really Awful – And We Love Them That Way!"

"50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time (August 3–9): Funny! Clever! Drawn to perfection! They're the tops in toons!"

"50 Sexiest Stars of All Time (September 28–October 4): Charisma, Curves, Confidence, Charm! Could We Be Having Any More Fun?"

A of TV Guide, which followed the same format as the U.S. magazine but published editorial content directed from Canada, was launched in 1977 (prior to this, beginning in 1953, the U.S. edition was published in Canada with appropriate localized television listings). It continued as a print publication until November 2006 (with only special editions being printed thereafter), after which it was replaced by the website tvguide.ca, which operated until December 2012, when it was incorporated into the entertainment and lifestyle website The Loop by Sympatico. The Canadian publication's owner Transcontinental Media discontinued TV Guide's online editorial content on July 2, 2014, ceasing the Canadian edition's existence after 61 years. Its listings department, which distributes programming schedules to newspapers and The Loop owner Bell Canada's pay television services (Bell Satellite TV, Bell Aliant TV and Bell Fibe TV) remains operational.[60][61] In 2017, the U.S. edition of TV Guide was distributed in Canada for a time.

Canadian edition

The term "TV guide" has partly become a to describe other television listings appearing on the internet and in newspapers.[62] Read/Write Web published "Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared."[63] Techcrunch in 2006 offered "Overview: The End of Paper TV Guides".[64]

genericized trademark

TV Guides is also the name of an interactive video and sound installation produced in 1995 with assistance from the , and was presented at SIGGRAPH 1999.[65]

Canada Council

National television listings magazines using the TV Guide name (verbatim or translated into the magazine's language of origin) are also published in other countries, but none of these are believed to be affiliated with the North American publication:

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