Next week's TV Guide cover

[calliaume]

Today I learned that TV Guide is still a thing.

Today I learned that TV Guide costs $4.99. I got a copy with Strahan on the cover and read the article.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm paying with a subscription, but it's less than fifty cents an issue.

The current offer looks to be $16.50 for 48 weeks, 56 if you pay by credit card.

30¢/week isn't bad, but I have better things to put it towards.

Just for giggles, I looked up the subscription price from 40 years ago this week (I only have four back issues of TV Guide, but one of them is the Bicentennial issue - and who remembers when the Bicentennial was a thing?).

No subscription card left in the magazine, but the blurb at the bottom of the masthead had $9.50 for one year, which would have been less than 19 cents an issue.  You kids have it good by comparison.

[Jimmy Owen]

$4 frickin' 99? Sheesh.

Our public library gives us 65 different magazine subscriptions for free. TV Guide isn't one of them.

Interestingly, that is why I got into TVG collecting.  I found the library didn't subscribe, thus no back issues there.  That was 1974, when the mag had relevant content and local listings.   I have every issue since then stored at a climate controlled facility way cross town.

[clemon79]

You're right, I don't see TV Guide every day; in fact it has to have been a solid ten years since I have touched one.