Who remembers the TV Guide?

Ronni

Ronni

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I loved getting it and sitting down with my coffee, going through the week and marking all the things I wanted to watch.

Was there a crossword in the back? Seems like it, and if there was I know I enjoyed that too. I’d read that thing cover to cover!

It’s still around, but its digital now and that just doesn’t have the same appeal to me.

Some trivia:

March 3, 1953, American magazine, TV Guide, published its 1st issue. The cover featured Lucille Balls infant son, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz Jr. The publication was sold in 10 US cities and had a total circulation of 1,560,000. It continued to be printed in digest size for the next 52 years.

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Ronni said:
I loved getting it and sitting down with my coffee, going through the week and marking all the things I wanted to watch.

Was there a crossword in the back? Seems like it, and if there was I know I enjoyed that too. I’d read that thing cover to cover!

It’s still around, but its digital now and that just doesn’t have the same appeal to me.

Some trivia:

March 3, 1953, American magazine, TV Guide, published its 1st issue. The cover featured Lucille Balls infant son, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz Jr. The publication was sold in 10 US cities and had a total circulation of 1,560,000. It continued to be printed in digest size for the next 52 years.

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No more TV Guide? I forgot about that. I wish it still was being printed!
 
I'm not sure it was the official TV Guide but ours came with the local newspaper. It was around ten or twelve pages, always had a cover story, the TV schedule and a crossword puzzle.
 
When we finally got a crummy used set, Mom and I only got snowy weak reception of two stations in the high camp. Not much need for TV Guide for us. My Grandmother had a subscription and I used to look at the magazine when I visited her.
 
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I remember buying it many yrs ago when I think it cost 15 or 25 cents much smaller than today's version which is alot larger
I've been subscribing for the past 8 yrs, cost now is $7.99 They have changed the format a couple times over the years, most issues are for 3 weeks,in the back is a streaming section. The crossword puzzle is still there.
 
My parents used to buy the TV Times and the Radio Times every week. These days I still buy one for mum at Christmas as she likes to look through it and plan her viewing over the holidays. Can you no longer buy these magazines in Nashville?
 
I always liked to read the critic's reviews, even though I didn't watch much TV. Cleveland Amory was their critic for a long time before he started writing books about cats.
 

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