Friday, September 11, 2020

NYT pulls plug on daily TV listings

 

The last weekend of August saw the end for daily TV listings in the print editions of The New York Times. The feature debuted on May 18, 1939. 

It may be surprising to some that that paper was still printing the listings. For years, the paper had included the grid only in its New York City edition.

“We are firmly in the streaming age,” said Gilbert Cruz, The Times’s Culture editor, “and the TV grid no longer reflects the way people consume television.”

“It used to be you’d flip through the TV guide and say, ‘Oh my God, this movie is on basic cable this week!’” he said. “But now that buzzy show is on Netflix whenever you want to watch it.”

Dropping the listing lets The Times print one version of its Arts section for both city and national subscribers.

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