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Do you still read the TV guide ?


Well do ya?

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I've never read a TV Guide. When I was a kid in the '80s I didn't even know that "TV Guide" was a trademark. It sounded like a generic term to me, and people often referred to the TV schedule in the newspaper as "the TV guide section." We never had an actual TV Guide magazine, and I didn't even look at the TV schedule in the newspaper all that much because when you watch TV every night and you only have 4 channels (the three major networks plus PBS), it doesn't take long to learn the schedule.

We got cable TV in 1989, but it was only about 20 channels, plus it included a TV schedule channel, so there was still no need for a TV Guide. And for the past 23 years or so I've rarely watched TV broadcasts.

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I don't read any magazines these days, but most are available on tablets. I got US weekly for a while about 5 years ago. They delivered it to my kindle. I was actually thinking about seeing if GAMES magazine was still available for tablets.

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I'm not certain they even print it anymore.
I used to subscribe to a lot of newspapers and magazines but have not in many years. Sad that the era of print is mostly extinct.

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no

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TV guide got ELOed didn't it.
I used to buy it and read it all the time.
I liked their crossword puzzles.
That was a long, long, long, long time ago though.

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