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Current Talk '04 II / Re: TV Crossword Clue
« on: November 25, 2004, 05:54:54 AM »Aside from DS fans, I wonder how many average, everyday, run-of-the-mill people would know the answer to THAT clue. Not too many I bet.
Maybe not. I know for myself that I've been able to figure out some of the TV Guide crossword clues for shows that I've never seen simply because I read TV Guide and other entertainment magazines - particularly when I'm lucky enough to get some of the letters for the answer from some of the letters of the overlapping answers in the puzzle. It's amazing how some of the most trivial info can get logged in your brain and you're not even aware of it until you need it.
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PS Is it just the edition around here, or has TV guide become totally worthless?? They stop listing things at 11 pm. Plus, they only list about a quarter of the channels, if that. There's no easy way to tell what in hell is on!! (not that I can ever find anything remotely interesting)
It's not just your issue. The listings in the revamped version of TV Guide have really gone down hill - and they seem to be in a state of denial about what they've done. Back when the changes first took place, TVGuide.com had a survey that subscribers could fill out, which I did, and I made it clear that I was not at all pleased. Their response to my comments was an obviously prefabricated e-mail about change sometimes being hard for some people to accept at first but they were certain that eventually their subscribers would appreciate the changes they've made. After I wrote back wondering how anyone would suddenly be likely to come to appreciate no longer having detailed listings for any time periods other than 7pm through 10:30pm when what they'd come to expect from TV Guide was full 24 hour listings, their personalized response was that they want more people to check out TVGuide.com and to get their detailed local listings for the other 20 hours of the day there (which I'll admit I do - but only because of the lack of alternatives). However, when I then questioned how they thought the millions of people who are still without access to a computer or cell phone with an Internet account are supposed to access their Web site, funny, they never responded.