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Title: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: BrandonFG on June 24, 2016, 03:40:33 PM
Here's something you don't see everyday...next week's TV Guide, as per the $100,000 Pyramid's Twitter page.

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Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2016, 08:13:24 PM
Gets me wondering... When was the last time something game show-related made the cover of TV Guide?
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: TLEberle on June 24, 2016, 08:20:27 PM
Regis or Ken Jennings?
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: BrandonFG on June 24, 2016, 08:57:30 PM
I wanna say Regis, too.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: TLEberle on June 24, 2016, 09:13:13 PM
They did a 50 Greatest Game Shows at some point as well, didn't they?
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: tpirfan28 on June 24, 2016, 09:41:30 PM
They did a 50 Greatest Game Shows at some point as well, didn't they?
2/2/01, Regis and Alex on the cover.  Could Bob Barker have been on the cover around his retirement?
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: BrandonFG on June 24, 2016, 10:14:24 PM
Just did a quick glance through Wiki's covers archive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TV_Guide_covers_(2000s)). Other than some reality/competition shows, the Reege/Alex cover is indeed the last one, although the year 2006 is incomplete, so maybe Howie Mandel made it onto a cover right after D/ND debuted?

No Barker (or Drew) covers in 2007.

Wiki says that there are three covers for the upcoming game shows issue, one for each host, of course.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: trainman on June 24, 2016, 10:43:57 PM
Here's something you don't see everyday...

True, but only because I canceled my subscription after they changed the format.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Thunder on June 24, 2016, 11:55:27 PM
Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Also that TV Guide's cover has the same format as every other magazine that my wife gets.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 25, 2016, 10:01:51 AM
I'm a subscriber and I got one with Steve Harvey.
 
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: BillCullen1 on June 25, 2016, 11:15:00 PM
Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Today I learned that TV Guide costs $4.99. I got a copy with Strahan on the cover and read the article.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Thunder on June 25, 2016, 11:44:57 PM
$4 frickin' 99? Sheesh.

Our public library gives us 65 different magazine subscriptions for free. TV Guide isn't one of them.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Matt Ottinger on June 26, 2016, 08:31:35 AM
Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Today I learned that TV Guide costs $4.99. I got a copy with Strahan on the cover and read the article.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm paying with a subscription, but it's less than fifty cents an issue.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Joe Mello on June 26, 2016, 09:36:30 AM
Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Today I learned that TV Guide costs $4.99. I got a copy with Strahan on the cover and read the article.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm paying with a subscription, but it's less than fifty cents an issue.
The current offer looks to be $16.50 for 48 weeks, 56 if you pay by credit card.

30¢/week isn't bad, but I have better things to put it towards.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Chuck Sutton on June 26, 2016, 10:09:13 AM
Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Today I learned that TV Guide costs $4.99. I got a copy with Strahan on the cover and read the article.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm paying with a subscription, but it's less than fifty cents an issue.

Still too much for current format!
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: calliaume on June 26, 2016, 11:05:28 AM
Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Today I learned that TV Guide costs $4.99. I got a copy with Strahan on the cover and read the article.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm paying with a subscription, but it's less than fifty cents an issue.
The current offer looks to be $16.50 for 48 weeks, 56 if you pay by credit card.

30¢/week isn't bad, but I have better things to put it towards.
Just for giggles, I looked up the subscription price from 40 years ago this week (I only have four back issues of TV Guide, but one of them is the Bicentennial issue - and who remembers when the Bicentennial was a thing?).

No subscription card left in the magazine, but the blurb at the bottom of the masthead had $9.50 for one year, which would have been less than 19 cents an issue.  You kids have it good by comparison.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 26, 2016, 03:34:38 PM
$4 frickin' 99? Sheesh.

Our public library gives us 65 different magazine subscriptions for free. TV Guide isn't one of them.

Interestingly, that is why I got into TVG collecting.  I found the library didn't subscribe, thus no back issues there.  That was 1974, when the mag had relevant content and local listings.   I have every issue since then stored at a climate controlled facility way cross town.
Title: Re: Next week's TV Guide cover
Post by: clemon79 on June 26, 2016, 07:33:36 PM
You're right, I don't see TV Guide every day; in fact it has to have been a solid ten years since I have touched one. :)