Re: Zap2It's TV Listings Are Gone

On 2025-03-27 10:42 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Apparently, within the last day, Zap2It's TV listing site is gone - it
now directs to a NewsNation schedule (which nobody wants!).
 
For now, it seems to still exist on Gracenote:
https://tvlistings.gracenote.com/grid-affiliates.html?aid=lat
 
FTR, TitanTV's guide also still exists:
https://www.titantv.com/
 
So, are we soon heading to a time when online TV schedule guides no
longer exist?!!...

 
I find that very strange. As a consumer of TV - as most of us are - I
would think TV listings would be a fundamental aspect of the TV
experience. After all, unless you're someone who merely uses TV as a
source of background noise as you go about your time at home and you
don't actually care what's on, you're probably going to want to know
what's on and when so that you can watch it (or set your PVR to record
it for you). If no one publishes listings, you're left to just flip the
channels until something catches your eye.
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Could it be that the cable companies and streaming services are
gradually buying these listings services to shut them down so that their
customers don't even see - and maybe don't even know about - competing
shows? It would be interesting to contact zap2it to see why they stopped
producing listings. Were they having trouble getting information about
what was on? Were they finding that almost no one used the service so
they couldn't justify the cost?