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Jack Kliger Named TV Guide Acting CEO

Folio: | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media


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...

Scott Crystal, TV Guide President, Ousted In Weekend Shakeup

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...

Previous Bidder Takes Minority Stake In TV Guide Network for $123M

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...

TV Guide Opens Print Channel, Selling Primetime Grid Placements

MediaWeek | Lucia Moses | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

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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'...

Ten Features that Are Dying with your Newspaper

Jason Notte | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media


Jason Notte

Here's a fun game: Spot the difference between "Partly sunny" and "Partly cloudy" icons. There isn't one.

TV Guide Adds CW, MTV Back To Listings Grid

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...

ABC's True Beauty is Not So Cute

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment


Giulia Rozzi

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.

Macrovision Sells TV Guide Assets To Lions Gate For $255 Million, Scraps Shapiro Deal

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...

TV Guide Channel, Website Sold For $300 Million

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...

TV Guide Tries For Life

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...

Delusion Profusion

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics


Michael Sigman

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.

Packaged Goods

Daniel Menaker | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Daniel Menaker

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.

Five Reasons Why the Obama Infomercial was Worth the Cost

Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Leah McElrath Renna

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.

Obama Infomercial (VIDEO)

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...

TV Guide Gives Away 30 Rock Season Premiere

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...

TV Guide Sold For A Dollar

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...

TV Guide Sold To Private Equity Firm

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...

Tina Fey On Sarah Palin: "If She Wins...I'm Leaving Earth"

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...

ABC Sole Sponsor Of TV Guide Issue

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...

Why Entertainment Weekly Rules the World

Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media


Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts

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.

David Vs. David -- The Final Two Contestants!

Kimberly Caldwell | Posted 05.27.2008 | Entertainment


Kimberly Caldwell

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.

Debra Birnbaum Named New TV Guide Editor

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 ...

Gemstar-TV Guide Files Patent Suit Against Toshiba

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...

Emmy Awards 2007: After-Parties Battle For Sunday Supremacy

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 ...