Is "TV Weekly Magazine" Worth the Subscription Price?

[Hawk4042C]

Originally Posted by irootoo

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone subscribes to "TV Weekly Magazine" and would recommend it.

We have DirecTV and with so many channels that I have to scroll through before I find what I am looking for, I have a very difficult and frustrating time navigating around the onscreen guide. "TV Weekly" looks like it might be a fairly simple way to have something in my hands where I can see what is coming up.

Do any of you CD-ers subscribe to this (or to some other guide), and if so, would you recommend it?

Thanks!

I never subscribed to TV Weekly Magazine, but a condensed version of it did come with the Thursday & Sunday Newspaper. It was ok for something free.

I've been subscribed to TV Guide Magazine for several years. Sure the listings are available online many places, but we like having the print guide for quick reference. The tv shows/movies articles are decent.
It nice to know when your favorite shows are airing new episodes. These guides aren't perfect, and can have misprints. But remember these magazines are print weeks in advance. I always cross check our shows through AT&T Now listings to see what's on.



It's worth it, if you find value in having it.

[evening sun]

Originally Posted by irootoo

It's just me I guess. I do subscribe to magazines even in this day and age, and I wanted something that, as I have mentioned twice now, I can hold in my hands and circle. the shows I want to watch. (If I circled what I wanted to watch on TVguide.com, my laptop would end up with red marks all over it.)

It's an individual thing, I go online & look up tv tonight & decide if there is anything I want to see. If you prefer a hard copy, go for it. I won't pay for it, but if it makes you happier doing it that way, then of course you should do it.

[newred5]

I subscribe to TV guide magazine and find it a good value. Not for the guide cause the magazine is a bi weekly and the guide is occasionally wrong, but i find the pages about what's on the various streaming services what makes the magazine a good value to me.

[fresnochili]

Originally Posted by irootoo

It's just me I guess. I do subscribe to magazines even in this day and age, and I wanted something that, as I have mentioned twice now, I can hold in my hands and circle. the shows I want to watch. (If I circled what I wanted to watch on TVguide.com, my laptop would end up with red marks all over it.)

Your post brought a smile to my face because my mother used to do that. She had the TV guide laying right next to her in bed, with everything she wanted to watch circled w/a pencil. She'd read ahead to see what was on, so as not to miss anything.

Thank you...I'd forgotten all about that memory of my mother....

[ansky]

Check with your local library. My library has an online magazine service where you can read magazines for free, including TV Guide.

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by irootoo

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone subscribes to "TV Weekly Magazine" and would recommend it.

We have DirecTV and with so many channels that I have to scroll through before I find what I am looking for, I have a very difficult and frustrating time navigating around the onscreen guide. "TV Weekly" looks like it might be a fairly simple way to have something in my hands where I can see what is coming up.

Do any of you CD-ers subscribe to this (or to some other guide), and if so, would you recommend it?

Thanks!

I did, got it really cheap for a whole year, and after about one month I was not happy with it. I can’t even remember why. I think it was very complicated because you couldn’t get a volume for your service, it listed all the services with all the channels.

Which made it very confusing.

I switched to an online service called Titan TV. It’s an app that you can put on your phone, or your tablet. I think they have upgraded it, where are you can adjust your channel list on your app via the phone or tablet. Back when I was doing it you had to do it via a laptop. Anyhow, since I have a total content guide and a self created guide on my TV for dish, I don’t need listings. I can just look it up on the guide on the tv.

But for my over the air antenna local stations, I need a guide. A lot of my stations that Titan TV says I can get, I can’t get. They’re too far away — which happens. A lot of my stations are also geared to foreign programming. I don’t care about that. So I can make my Titan TV listings the way I want to and it’s a pretty easy system. I mean you have to read the instructions but once you get the hang of it, it’s really easy.

If I recall correctly when I was looking for something like this, there were others out there, but I went with Titan and it’s what I’m used to.