Re: Zap2It's TV Listings Are Gone

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Apparently, within the last day, Zap2It's TV listing site is gone - it
now directs to a NewsNation schedule (which nobody wants!).

Here's where it was first reported:

https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-zap2it-tv-listings

There used to be two major listing services, Trib and TVGuide. No
programming source gave his listings directly to cable or TiVo. Zap2It
used to be Trib listings but who knows since Nexstar. If Trib listings
provided to cable is no longer a sister company to Zap2It, then that's
an additional cost to Nexstar. If Nexstar owns it, then we're talking
about the minor cost of operating the Web site that ads should have been
able to cover.

For now, it seems to still exist on Gracenote:

https://tvlistings.gracenote.com/grid-affiliates.html?aid=lat

But who knows how long this will last...

FTR, TitanTV's guide also still exists:

https://www.titantv.com/

But they're another one that I wonder how much longer they can survive...

So, are we soon heading to a time when online TV schedule guides no
longer exist?!!...

I don't see how a DVR can be conveniently controlled without listings.