Posted on 10/18/2008 9:11:45 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
your so-called
“dinosaur media”
are regrouping on the internet.
yahoo, for example, is now hosting advertising for newspapers.
>Yahoo inks ads, content deal with 176 newspapers
Seven-chain deal is a rare blow to Yahoo’s search archrival, Google<
It was too small to use as a bird cage liner..so they kind of lost out.
Does TV Guide still exist? Once they changed the format so I could not tell what was on or when, I stopped buying it. Seems obsolete now with all the listing available online, or on the cable/DVR.
sorry, i do not know.
i haven’t watched tv in decades.
let’s see... i gave up on tv when bill clinton burned those innocent people at waco.
at the dinner table, “mom, is this real or a made-for-tv movie”?
most americans couldn’t figure that out.
Exactly. If they are smart they’ll not renew the subscriptions and license the name.
TV Guide was bought by Gemstar several years back.
Gemstar also bought a company called Starsight, where my hubby worked.
Gemstar was run by an evil guy name Henry Yuen. He and his CFO cooked the books, and the stock soared to over a 100/share. We had purchased some of my husband’s stock options, but we were holding on to it for 1 year so we would pay long term capital gains. (This is what we had been advised to do by our tax guy and some other financial person.) Anyway, Henry was exposed, and the stock crashed ($3/share). We were lucky and had sold enough stock on same day sale to pay for AMT taxes on our options. We didn’t loose any money, but we didn’t make anything.
Lots of my husband’s co-workers lost tons of money because they were holding on to options and didn’t have money to pay taxes. His boss ended up losing his home because he couldn’t pay his taxes.
Henry ruined Starsight and TV Guide. TV Guide never recovered, and Starsight was totally wiped out.
They own all the licenses for the online TV guide listings.
They are the only source with connections with the networks. I know someone who works there here in L.A. and she said that the environment there is so negative, they expect their desks to be emptied and called into the office any day for layoffs.
Starsight was a really nice company before Gemstar-TV Guide bought them.
My twin daughters almost died when they were babies, and one of them was in the hospital for a month. My husband didn’t go to work that whole month, and Starsight never took vacation/sick days out of my husband’s pay. It was a small family atmosphere. They were the engineering group that did the online TV Guides.
I don’t like my hubby’s current company as much.
Dinosaur Media Ping
the internets are the great leveler. and try as they might, the dems aren’t going to be able to shut us down.
I never have time for tv anymore. I remember my parents used to get TV guide until the mid-1980’s
I’ve noticed that many old programs like westerns from the 50s and 60s are on the internet now and the kids who are seeing them for the first time are commenting how great the shows are and why TV is now just crap.
Same here.Was a staple in our house for years until it went off the rails.
Me too, it was convenient the size it used to be. When it changed to a big magazine I canceled. I have a bunch saved for memories sake, some of the special issue type too.
The old format was great, but if they gave that much space to all cable channels, the thing would be the size of a pocket dictionary.
Compare this to when Walter Annenberg sold it for $3 billion just twenty years ago.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDC123BF93BA3575BC0A96E948260
THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Murdoch Agrees to Buy TV Guide In a $3 Billion Sale by Annenberg
By KURT EICHENWALD
Published: August 8, 1988
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