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The TV Guide Channel is a television channel that provides, on the bottom half of the screen, a scrolling grid that lists television channels and the television programs and films currently showing on them. On the top half of the screen are featured short programs (often as little as 30 seconds to a minute long) usually featuring movie previews, celebrity news, and commercials. The Prevue Guide (the scrolling grid) physically ran off of Amiga hardware and software. The guide was known to crash at times, leaving the Amiga "Guru Meditation" error overlayed on top of the listings. Other errors included a C-Band listing fallback, and a red box where the listings would normally be, simply stating that local listings would appear soon. The channel's name was Prevue Guide, then changed in 1993 to the "Prevue Channel", with a new logo arriving in 1996. Ever since TV Guide bought the Prevue Channel in February of 1999, the channel has changed drastically. 'Shows' have been added to the TV Guide Channel (see bottom). Shows can last from a few seconds to a couple hours (the longer shows take up the whole screen, making the scrolling grid smaller). Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa Rivers provide coverage for television award events like The Emmy Awards and The Academy Awards. Also on the scrolling grid are ads and promotions for your cable provider, and local weather. Since the TV Guide Channel isn't available with every cable service, services like IO Digital Cable and Bright House Networks have come up with their own scrollng grids, with IO having TV commercials for their service at a certain time (the other time just has still ads with Music playing), but up in the right hand corner in a small screen and Bright House having a local news station as a "show", and the screen is set up like IO's.
Categories and Color Schemes The type of show categories are highlighted by colors on the screen: Normal Programming: Yellow, Dark Blue Children's Shows: Light Blue Sports Programming: Green Movies: Red, Dark Purple During the time around the Emmys, shows that have been nominated are highlighted in gold. Same goes for the Oscars, except only movies that have won in the past. Other special shows, for example, like shows on Discovery Channel's Shark Week have a bubbly-water scheme, referring to the ocean, or close to Halloween, horror movies have spiderwebs in the scheme. Similar important shows and/or premieres have similar schemes to their grid space. Current Shows In addition to paid programming that airs from late morning-early afternoon, the TV Guide Channel has many original sieries that air during primetime. Former Shows Prevue Guide "Prevue Guide...Just what you're looking for." Prevue Channel TV Guide Channel TV Guide Channel Image:TV Guide Channel 1999.jpg|TV Guide Channel logo from 1999 to 2001 Image:TV Guide Channel 2001.jpg|TV Guide Channel logo from 2001 to 2004 Image:TV Guide Channel 2004.png|TV Guide Channel logo from 2004 to 2005 Image:TV Guide Channel 2005.jpg|TV Guide Channel logo from 2005 to the present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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