TV Guide
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| Chief Content Officer | Michael Schneider |
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| Executive editors | Rich Sands Nerina Rammairone |
| Categories | Entertainment news |
| Frequency | Bi-weekly |
| Circulation | 1,814,908 |
| Publisher | Paul Turcotte (also serves as chief revenue officer) |
| Founder | Lee Wagner |
| Year founded | 1948 (entered as second class mailer August 10, 1948, at P.O. New York, NY) |
| First issue | April 3, 1953 |
| Company | NTVB Media (magazine) CBS Interactive (CBS Corporation) (digital assets) |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | American English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0039-8543 |
TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles and in some issues, horoscopes. The print magazine is owned by NTVB Media, while its digital properties are controlled by the CBS Interactive division of CBS Corporation; the TV Guide name and associated editorial content from the publication are licensed by CBS Interactive for use on the website and mobile app through an agreement with the magazine's parent subsidiary TVGM Holdings, Inc.
The prototype of what would become TV Guide magazine, was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of McFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities.
In 1948, he printed New York City area listings magazine The TeleVision Guide. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the short-lived variety series The Gloria Swanson Hour, appeared on the cover of the first issue. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of The TeleVision Guide for New England and the Baltimore–Washington area. Five years later, he sold the editions to Walter Annenberg, who folded it into his publishing and broadcasting company Triangle Publications, but remained as a consultant for the magazine until 1963.
The national TV Guide's first issue was released on April 3, 1953. The inaugural cover featured a photograph of Lucille Ball's newborn son Desi Arnaz, Jr., with a downscaled photo of Ball placed in the top corner under the issue's headline: "Lucy's $50,000,000 baby". The magazine was published in digest size, which remained its printed format for 52 years. From its first issue until the issue of July 2-8, 1954, listings within each edition of TV Guide began on Friday and ended on Thursday; the issue of July 9-16 began on a Friday and ended on the following Friday; then, beginning with the July 17-23, 1954 issue, the listings in each week's issue changed to start on Saturday and end on Friday, which remained the listings format for all local editions until April 2004.
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