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I sincerely doubt if I will renew my subscription to TV Guide. It has become more of a People's magazine rather than a GUIDE. Who cares about what goes on behind the scenes? It only lists shows from 7:00PM through 11:00PM. I am retired and don't have a computer. In order to find out what's on TV, I have to go to the library. Stick to what the TV Guide is supposed to be--a GUIDE about what's on TV 24 hours a day! We pay for 52 weeks and sometimes you get two weeks at a time. That's one less crossword puzzle each time.
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Apr 3, 2008 2:09 PM
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completely agree! I'm all done with TV Guide! I will not be renewing my subscription. With the new format we no longer have a Mon.-Fri. daytime guide, no Sat. and Sun. daytime guide and apparently there is no television after 10:30pm since there are no listings after that time. With the double issue we are cheated of all the regular content such as, Cheers & Jeers, Roush Review, Soap News, Horoscopes, and Crosswords. I have read the "You May Notice" on the first page of the latest issue and we are most certainly not getting what we have subscribed to. Isn't this considered a breach of my subscription contract since I subscribed with the understanding that I would be reading 52 Cheers & Jeers articles, 52 Roush Reviews, 52 Soap News 52 weeks of Horoscopes and 52 Crosswords? Hmmmm, perhaps my attorney can explain "breach of contract" to me. I also find it interesting that from 2003 to 2007 I paid more for my subscription than I am paying for my 2008 subscription. Do the double issues count as 2 or 1 in my 52 issue subscription? How about some answers TV Guide!
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Apr 6, 2008 10:22 AM
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AMEN! I almost wrote when you changed from the small magazine format to your current format a couple of years ago . . . I was totally disappointed with not being able to check local or daytime listings, and my first thought was if I wanted a gossip rag I'd buy one! But I stuck with you anyway. Now, with your new and (not) improved format where you have me flipping from the Primetime listing page to the Highlights page and back again, I'm DONE. My local Sunday paper has a freebie TV listing . . . why in the world should I pay you almost $40 for one year (according to my latest renewal form). FAGETABOUTIT!
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Apr 6, 2008 2:21 PM
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I am one of the very many who are NOT happy with the new T.V. Guide. I buy the t.v. guide to see whats on tv. (Imagine that!!) PLEASE bring back the old tv guide. The one that tells you whats on tv 24/7.
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Apr 6, 2008 2:59 PM
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I ordered a "TV Guide", and instead recieved an Entertainment Magazine.I not only am dissatisfied with the so called "new" TV Guide, due to if I were wanting an entertainment magazine I would have subscribed to Entertainment Weekly or People, but I wish to discontinue my subscription and only be billed for the one issue recieved, of which I will be returning as well if need be. Not only has your TV Guide been changed into an entertainment magazine that "we the subscribers" do not want, but you have made it to only display a few hours of programming listings that do not go past 10:30 or 11:00pm. What about those of us who want to know what is on in the wee hours of the morning? Again, your TV Guide has become a regular magazine, of which I do not want. Please have someone to contact me so I can make arrangements to only pay for the one issue and that is all.
Thanks,
Mr. Darrell Bell
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Apr 8, 2008 11:45 PM
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Have to agree with all the earlier posters. I dropped my subscription (after over 10 continuous years) when you switched to the New and Improved larger format. Take a good look at the name of the magazine - it's TV Guide, not Entertainment Weekly.
Don L.
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Apr 9, 2008 2:57 PM
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I agree that the new format is confusing,inaccurate, and what ever happened to listing what channel #a
program can be found,as well as what is on prior to 7P.M.. If I wanted to view dribble or a rag mag. I'll subscribe to something else. My T.V. guide subscpition when it runs out will be permanant.... !!!!!!!!!!!! It does however make a great fireplace starter!! sincerely Sven von Magnus
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Apr 11, 2008 3:35 PM
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I am one of many that is not satisfied with the new tv guides. I have been saving tv guides ever since 1979 and I have seen so many changes in them. It was nice see all movies that were playing for the whole week. Now the tv guides are nothing but advertisements. Wish they would go back to the old tv guides and keep the advertisements to the newpapers. Now a days the charge you more for them and give you less. What is the deal? Please go back to putting all the movies listings in them like the old tv guides and quit changing them.
Thank you
Ron
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Apr 13, 2008 12:15 PM
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I totally agree with all the comments made about the new T.V. guide. Where is all the listings, I mean, we suscribe for the T.V. guide to know what is being shown. Not for all the other nonsense. I used to see what was coming on at anytime of the day or night, now with all this other nonsense, now I basically have to channel surf just to find something to watch. Please bring back the T.V. listing that we all know and love. That's what we suscribe for in the first place or you are are going to lose alot of suscribers!
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Apr 20, 2008 12:08 AM
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I am in total agreement about how badddd this new so called TVGUIDE is,it is nothing but a gossip magazine.It has nothing to do with TV>>>also half the time it is wrong.I long for the days of the old TVGUIDE when it really was a guide.Most of the time you are too lazy to put what is on,it is just left blank.it dosen't even have the daytime lineup.If you would put as much effort in the line up as you do the gossip;i might renew,but as for now I WLL NOT RENEW MY ACCOUNT THAT I HAVE HAD FOR OVER 25YEARS< but I guess you no longer care.Another customer lost!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 28, 2008 5:08 PM
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Oh, please, just put the "Highlights" back next to the day they belong to. That's all.
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Apr 30, 2008 6:39 PM
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I, too, dropped my subscription after literally decades. However, I see little point in blaming TVGuide. In this era of hundreds of cable channels, and dozens of schedule changes daily, a magazine that requires a week to go to print is just useless. Might as well get mad at gravity.
TVGuide.com is my favorite place to keep up with events, and for those of us with Comcast, the TVGuide channel is the closest thing to accurate available. If I want specific info about a show, I go to the online site of the network that broadcasts it.
Trust me, nobody is willfully ignoring these issues - there is an ENORMOUS amount of money to be made if they can get it right. However, for now, the technology has just got ahead of itself.
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Apr 30, 2008 7:03 PM
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I picked up an issue of TV Guide (because I hadn't purchased one in eons) and was shocked to the bone. Who was the idiot that turned it into some kind of tabloid/gossup magazine?? In the local editions they would have the station name and call letters. And excuse me for saying this but there are people who are at home during the day, or need to know what's on so they can record it while at work. Also, do they think that no one's home on the weekends or stays up past 10:30pm??
If the people at TV Guide are listening, cater to those who perfer things the way they were AND they younger generation at the same time!
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Jul 19, 2008 9:57 AM
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I agree and local TV guide like sections of newspapers are making the same sort of adjustments. I can't find out what is coming on Saturday or Sunday morning from those. Use to be you could get little free tv grids like Look See Hear and Happiness or some other such things by the doors of grocery stores for free. Whatever happened to those? They had little smiley faces and alligator cartoons you had to look for hidden amongst paper as a game.
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Jul 19, 2008 6:37 PM
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Some here said they had been suscribing for ten years........we dropped it after subscribing since the sixties. 43 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!
I will not renew until they bring back the original.
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Jul 27, 2008 8:02 PM
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