The "TV Guide Channel" has become increasingly more useless with time. There was a time, many years ago, when I could see tv listings scrolling by on my whole screen. Then the screen was cut in half to show advertising above. Then the listings were reduced to three or four lines to force me to watch "reality" shows or "celebrity news" while waiting forever for the listings to scroll by.
Today, I tried to look at the listings and there was half a line of listings, above which there was a message that listings would return at 9pm. Why can't there be a channel with full-screen listings for those of us who just want to know what's on?
I know that I could pay more for digital cable (which fails if there's even the slightest noise on the line; even cable internet and cable telephone manage with whatever crap I splice in) and get a listing that I can scroll a page at a time and so on. However, I don't think it's too much to ask to have a channel on regular cable that shows me what's on. Maybe they could put it on half of the screen on unused Public Access channels, if the issue is bandwidth. Maybe, god-forbid, they could replace one of the informercial channels, or Lifetime...
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