I never missed a week of TV Guide from September 1967 on, either from a subscription or buying it on a newsstand. Even while traveling, I always picked up a copy someplace. But, when the magazine became a clone of "People" or "Us" magazines, and it dropped the local listings (sometime in November 2005) my long relationship with the "Guide" ended. And, I don't miss it at all.

I continue to subscribe, but with more and more 2-in-1 issues (which means half the coverage in many areas), and the enormous amount of airbrushing that makes people hard to identify, I'm more and more unhappy with it.

[Diane here: You nailed that one, Jan. It's much more a giddy fashion-and-gossip mag than the true TV magazine we all once loved. So sad to see.]

It really cracks me up when TV Guide brags they now have expanded tv listings in their publication. DUH. You are supposedly a guide for television viewers. I have to check the cover when reading articles inside to make sure I'm not reading Entertainment Weekly by mistake. And those tv listings. A one word description does not a tv guide make. I got a super cheap one year subscription - otherwise I'd drop it and never go back.