I don't watch anything on The CW, but I know that there are a lot of people who do. Gossip Girl, Supernatural, Smallville, 90210, One Tree Hill, Privileged. It's always the last channel in the ratings of the big five networks (including ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC), but these shows have their fans. So it's a little odd that TV Guide would drop the network from its grid (scroll down).Yup, the long-running magazine says that there just isn't enough room to list all of the channels now, so they've gotten rid of The CW and other channels recently, including MTV and their own TV Guide Network (though that was just sold to Lionsgate).
I said before that if TV Guide really wanted to stand out in this age of an endless number of grids on various web sites (oh look, there's one!), it could get rid of the grid altogether and go back to the way they used to list the TV shows that were on every night: big entries for each show, with the plot and guest stars listed.
There's been talk for the past year that The CW might not even survive for another season. Maybe TV Guide thinks so too.
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1-13-2009 @ 8:48AM
Antione said...
Well that sucks! I think the CW get's a raw deal, despite the fact they have some good shows! They may have to promote more on the cable channels or something. Only Heroes, House, Prison Break, American Idol and Terminator (Sarah Connor chronicles) should take most views. But I don't think too many other shows should command that much attention. Then again allot people watch cable channel. I just hope they don't cut their good shows any time soon. http://rainofgods.blogspot.com and http://rainofgodscomics.com
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1-13-2009 @ 8:57AM
RT said...
TV Guide has become a joke lately... pages and pages of pictures and very few articles. Entertainment Weekly is a much better read.
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1-13-2009 @ 8:58AM
Bart Smith said...
I think it's probably more a case of TV Guide realizing that the audience that watches The CW and MTV probably has never had a reason or the desire to pick up a copy of TV Guide.
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1-13-2009 @ 9:00AM
Tony said...
I just hope that another network picks up Supernatural and let the CW die a painless death.
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1-13-2009 @ 9:06AM
Logan said...
I second that!
1-13-2009 @ 11:54AM
Jason said...
Amen!
1-13-2009 @ 1:12PM
Jennifer said...
I hope Supernatural wraps its plot up at the end of the year, 'cause I wouldn't hold my breath on anyone else picking it up. It's not a big enough "hit" anywhere else short of cable.
1-13-2009 @ 9:31AM
RazorD said...
Ausiello's a smart guy, and i saw him leaving as a sign the ship was sinking. Their podcast was great (speaking of which, how long before we get a TVSquad podcast?!) and that was cancelled as it was still growing.
90210 and Gossip Girl are doing well enough to hold the CW up for at least another year, and you'd figure that the target audience of both are the internet generation, yet they still remove it.
Yet another example of how media is dying, i guess!
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1-13-2009 @ 11:23AM
Courtney said...
Are you talking magazine or website? The magazine went so downhill once it changed its trimsize.
Btw, can you share some links about the downfall of The CW? That's news to me!
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1-13-2009 @ 11:49AM
Modwild said...
TV guide picks THAT channel, one that actually stimulates more celebrity gossip, etc., than NBC, for example, to cut? Amazing. The TV target audience is actually the age of the kids who flock to CW. Way to rig the audience idiots. Hell, I haven't purchased a TV Guide in years. Can't even remember the last time I thumbed through one of them. They are pointless. Even their online guide is almost impossible to navigate. Be gone, TVGuide; Be gone.
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1-13-2009 @ 10:31PM
Jim Kosmicki said...
They still list MyNetwork TV and ION, in the top grid no less. For cable channels, they list the Golf Channel and QVC. There's room if they wanted to. The CW is a broadcast network, not a cable network - to me that would indicate that it should be included before niche cable networks. If you have cable, you almost assuredly get a channel guide. People who don't have cable (and as the digital TV changeover is showing, that's many, many more people than most of the readers of this blog would guess) are not going to care about cable channels being listed.
Personally, I'm guessing that CW isn't spending advertising money so this is retaliation -- just like the game of chicken played by Viacom and various cable providers.
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1-13-2009 @ 11:16PM
KaeDee said...
TV Guide ceased to be anything more than a "Primetime" Viewing Guide a few years ago. So no biggie. I used to buy TV Guide religiously. Now I have OnDemand, and get my what's-on from there. And I agree with Bart Smith; most of the upcoming generation probably get their TV watching info online anyway.
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1-13-2009 @ 11:38PM
Eludium-Q36 said...
TV Guide. Really ? They're still in print ?! Why ? Because a few 80 yr olds in Montana still subscribe ?! Bob Sassone, you definitely drew the short straw on what has got to be the "Story with Least Impact of 2009", so far...
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1-14-2009 @ 3:55AM
Brent McKee said...
The CW has out lived TV Guide as a print magazine - in Canada.
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