TV Guide editions

Kevin Vahey kvahey@tmail.com
Thu Dec 25 00:50:13 EST 2003


I was in a hotel 2 days ago that indeed had an eastern time zone 
edition. Just listed prorams by network



On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:04pm, Mark Laurence wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 09:30  PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
>
>> On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Scott Fybush wrote:
>>
>>> My friends on the WTFDA (TV/FM DXers list) have been noticing that TV 
>>> Guide has consolidated a number of its regional editions out of 
>>> existence, effective with the 12/27/03 issue. Here in Rochester, our 
>>> "Rochester Edition" (which listed Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse) 
>>> has been merged into "Western New York,"
>>
>> The Boston and Providence editions have been eliminated, replaced by a 
>> Boston-Providence edition. ..
>
> TV Guide is in tough shape overall, but local advertising in particular 
> is a shadow of its former self.    Also, their new format has cut 
> coverage of daytime hours when local differences were most important.  
> Now they emphasize prime time network and cable channels and they could 
> almost consolidate to an Eastern Time Zone edition, like they do for 
> DirecTV.
>
> Mark


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