Jack Kliger Named TV Guide Acting CEO
OpenGate Capital--the Los Angeles-based private equity firm that purchased the print edition of TV Guide last year for $1--today named former Hachette...
OpenGate Capital--the Los Angeles-based private equity firm that purchased the print edition of TV Guide last year for $1--today named former Hachette...
New York Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media
In a sudden change at TV Guide, new owner Open Gate Capital has replaced Scott Crystal as president, and tapped Michael Clayton, the company's executi...
Folio: | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
The sell-off of TV Guide has taken another strange turn. Film entertainment studio Lionsgate today said it has sold a 49 percent stake in the TV Gu...
MediaWeek | Lucia Moses | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media
In its 55-year history, TV Guide magazine has evolved its signature listings grid to include color, icons and banner ads. Now, for the first time, it'...
Jason Notte | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media
Here's a fun game: Spot the difference between "Partly sunny" and "Partly cloudy" icons. There isn't one.
Variety | Michael Schneider | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
Listings for the CW and MTV have been reinstated in TV Guide, a month after the mag pulled those networks from its grids. Decision to dump those ch...
Giulia Rozzi | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment
True Beauty follows a good-looking group who think they're competing in a beauty contest. What they don't know, is that the challenges are also testing them on their inner beauty.
AP | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Macrovision Solutions Corp. has canceled its deal to sell the TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com for $255 million to Allen Shapiro a...
AP | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- Macrovision Solutions Corp. said Thursday it is selling its TV Guide Network properties to Allen Shapiro and private equit...
New York Times | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media
When a prominent 55-year-old magazine is sold, in its entirety, for less than the price of a single issue, does it have a chance at survival? On Apri...
Michael Sigman | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Years ago, I briefly dated an attractive, intelligent therapist. I thought we were two peas in a garden-variety neurotic pod until she described how she'd telephonically healed a client's tumor.
Daniel Menaker | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's infomercial -- fairly long on the mercial and comparatively short on the info, or at least on new info -- was moving and effective. It was also slick and sleek, like its protagonist.
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
The Obama infomercial was a risk -- but the piece will likely go down in history as yet another way the Obama campaign has forever changed the face of political campaigning through its creative use of media.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's half-hour commercial/mini-documentary aired on Wednesday evening. Watch the full video below. Following the produced segment, viewer...
Media Week | Lucia Moses | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
Looking to boost reader interest, TV Guide today announced that it was teaming up with NBC to give away downloads of the network's 30 Rock Season 3 pr...
AdAge | Nat Ives | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- How much is TV Guide magazine worth in a morphing media business and molten credit markets? Try $1. That's how much the priva...
Forbes | James Erik Abels | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
If TV Guide is a symbol of the future of American broadcasting, the networks had better hold onto their seats. The magazine has been sold yet again, t...
Huffington Post via TV Guide | Posted 11.13.2008 | Entertainment
Tina Fey told TVGuide she'll be "done" if John McCain and Sarah Palin win the election next month. The "SNL" veteran who has come back to play the Re...
AdWeek | Shahnaz Mahmud | Posted 09.19.2008 | Media
When TV Guide hits newsstands this Thursday, it might as well be called "ABC's TV Guide." The new issue will carry 21 advertising pages for ABC, incl...
Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media
Too many readers are concerned about prestige rather than learning something. EW takes us to new places because the magazine covers only what is new.
Kimberly Caldwell | Posted 05.27.2008 | Entertainment
Even though the talent this year has been outstanding, I think all of America has known since the Top 24, that the finals would come down to David versus David.
AP | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — TV Guide promoted two executives to top editorial roles Tuesday, days after the previous leadership departed amid the acquisition of ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., the publisher of TV Guide magazine, said Wednesday its StarSight Telecast Inc. unit has filed a patent lawsuit ag...
Variety | JOSEF ADALIAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
After the last Emmy is handed out on Sunday night, the real competition begins -- namely, the party circuit battle to attract TV's biggest movers and ...
Folio: | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media