I used to put the weather channel on when I was scared of the weather happening outside. I figured the raw facts on the 8s would help me be less irrationally afraid.
It's strange, but I miss Prevue Channel. Sure you had to wait for the programming info, but there was something reassuring about it. Sometimes I wish technology hadn't advanced like it did. These days you can just get on your smartphone and look up what's on TV. People have no idea how easy they have it.
There was something sort of relaxing about the Prevue Channel. TV Guide ruined that when they replaced the beautiful jazz music and hilariously bad 900-number ads with celebrity gossip crap.
You are so right. I truly wish technology didn't advance like it did. I wish this type of stuff would happen after I died. I really didn't need a smartphone and all that bullshit that the 21st century brought.
I remember getting those Comcast weekly TV Guides in the mail. That all stopped around 2006 when Comcast rolled out their digital set-top boxes with guides built in. That didn't mean we stopped using the TV Guide Channel though.
As dark as Prevue's last format was, it was still sleek and finally made it seem like something other than a program guide channel, that is, without polluting it with unnecessary talk shows and whatnot. Back to the interstitial music in this clip, one of them seems REALLY familiar. Like I've heard it in a commercial. Hope I can find them soon.
I really miss the Prevue Channel, especially this one from 1998. TV Guide Channel was very decent when they first started and some of their segments including Family Finds and Movie Profile were very similar to the Prevue segments from 1998. By the time they did some changes in 2000, it was never the same, but it completely went downhill by the time it became an E! like channel in 2004. That's when TV Guide was moved from Tulsa to Hollywood, where Fries Entertainment building used to be.
I've been trying to find the oldest memories I have, and I distinctly recall this channel. It became TV Guide when I was 7 years old, which makes these possibly the oldest memories I have.
Many cable systems in Canada had Prevue Channel as well. When Prevue became TV Guide channel in the US, the Canadian version continued to operate as Prevue. The reason for this was TV Guide was licensed to another company in Canada and they had already been operating TV Guide Channel since 1993. The TV Guide channel in Canada was a vertical split screen service with the listings on the left and previews on the right and only featured listings for what was currently on. The Prevue Channel was exactly as shown on this video and the service continued until 2004. After 2004 cable systems switched to TV Guide Channel or Zap2It program listings. Today, there is only one TV Listings service in Canada known as TV Listings Channel and they are still quite common despite the fact that the majority of people have digital cable with interactive program guides.
I was born when it was still Prevue Guide and went to a sorority dance with someone born after it switched to the TV Guide Channel. Although I just barely made being born during the Prevue Guide era (it switched to Prevue Channel within three months of my birth) and it had just turned to TV Guide Channel less than a month before she was born. October 1, 2018 10:28 am
I didn't mind the 1998 Prevue Channel theme. I thought it was cool. But I do agree about the early TV Guide Channel theme from 1999. It had a more lighter tone. TV Guide Channel "jumped the shark" in mid-2004 when they first replaced the non-Amgia smaller blue grid with the smaller teal green gird. At the same time, more and MORE stupid celebrity shows/long-form programs were added. It hit a new low once more when they changed their magizine in 2005 and their program grid a year later.
Yeah, I recorded the Family/Fox Family changeover, I figured I'd get the changeover of Prevue/TV Guide. I'd wager that even if Prevue hadn't bought TV Guide, it would look quite similar to what we have now. The changeover amounted to little more than a new name and graphics - the real changes were made a year prior. And that early TV Guide branding was certainly an improvement. The last Prevue look was reallllly dark and scary.
This was very similar to what happened in February, 1998 when Prevue was given that new look. I was watching the Prevue Channel on Sunday Night during President's Day Weekend and after Prevue was going to play "Prevue Tonight" and "Family Vue". All of a sudden, it got replaced with "Prevue News and Weather" and "Prevue Revue" and many changes have followed.
Man, I would LOVE to see the changeover to Fox Family! I actually planned on watching it when it happened, but I remember having to leave that morning and it had already changed over when I turned it back on.
This brings back memories. I miss my childhood. Streaming is great but nothing was as great as watching programs together with the rest of the country, live. When we all watched the same things and america had its factories. Now everyone watches different stuff at different times. Tons of benefits to that but still miss the grand ole days .
Happily, it's on one of the few tapes I have that was labeled as soon as I recorded the footage. So it's just a matter of locating it, and I'll hope to have it on soon. That was a big amount of hoopla, and rightly so. TV Guide was/is a renamed Prevue. Fox Family was essentially an entirely new channel.
On one of my days off I'm going to clear out my living room and fill it with stuff only found in the 90s like slap bracelets, a 'Saved by the Bell' poster, VCR, Nirvana CDs, and a giant CRT TV and play this on said television set and then when my fiance enters the house I'm going to tell her we've got to change the past to make sure the future is safe.
Prevue Network is now defunct, and in its place was changed to TV Guide Channel, later as TV Guide Network and currently as TVGN. however, it will be replaced by POP in 2015.
AHHH yesss ... I remember those nights in 8th & 9th grade watching Beverly Hills Bordello & red shoe diaries ..while mom went to work that 11pm to 7am shift .. those were the days.
The track @ 2:04 was previously used in a "Mr. T" interstitial for Cartoon Network in 1995, which is on one of my CN compilation vids. That's all I've got so far. Dunno, but they probably came from either the "Killer Tracks" and/or "FirstCom" music libraries.
If I'm right, Prevue This was a profile of one TV show, similar to Prevue Revue and Prevue Family. That was the only segment that was replaced in the switch to TV Guide - the Insider profiles took its place.
Wow, great find man! I figured no one had recorded the moment in which the changeover occured, as subtle as it was. It also reminded me that, in its last days, Prevue Channel wasn't too different from the early TVGC of 1999. According to Wikipedia, the now-classic blue grid (the last remnant of Prevue) was replaced in December 1999/January 2000 with the yellow grid. That was around the time it was replaced here in NYC . Oh, and I'm def trying to ID that ad music!
@darkbutterfly16 I don't remember much of Prevue, sadly, as I was quite young. However, I remember TV Guide Channel during the "yellow grid" years, when it was really at its peak, and have several video recordings of various features on the network. I agree about the whole "going downhill" part. See, with the advent of digital TV & EPGs, Lionsgate (the new channel's owner) has decided it is unnecessary for the channel to continue scrolling listings...there goes another part of my childhood. :(
OUTLIF replaced by HSN on Channel 31, WHSP Philadelphia renamed WUVP and change affiliate to Univision, and Univision replaced by NBC Sports Network on Channel 69.
I remember when the prevue channel here in Bremerton, WA just only showed paid channels and one pay-per-view channel when I was a young teenager. Then it got removed from the lineup. And then it got re-added after a cable upgrade to 79 channels, showing all the channels in the Cable lineup.
Man, I miss when I would look for a channel to watch and the boxes with words were slowly going up while some chill music is playing with some occasional commercials appearing.
Comcast Home Theater replaced by Esquire Network (as Style) on Channel 43, Comcast Home Theater replaced by A&E on Channel 44, A&E replaced by WWSI Philadelphia Telemundo affiliate on Channel 24, Comcast Home Theater replaced by FX on Channel 45, Comcast Home Theater replaced by Fox News Channel on Channel 46.
@kstarpictures I don't really agree - for example, if you look at the Prevue Channel video from 1998 that was posted to RU-vid in the past few days, you will see that they showed previews in a very similar manner than they did in the mid 90s. I understand there were some changes in the newer, post-1998 format, but they still did Tonight-style things.
@ariw2003net "Prevue This" was a look into a select primetime TV show. It was sort of the replacement to the earlier Prevue Tonight, albeit with a different format. Just like Family-Vue vs. Prevue Family.
@kstarpictures That doesn't sound too much like Prevue Tonight, which showed short previews for several programs that would be shown on a particular night. From what I understand, Prevue This was more like TV Guide Insider. I would say that Prevue TV was probably more of a replacement for Prevue Tonight? Thanks though!
Yeah, slow, didn't really give much information on what the hell a show WAS? Nice idea, but it really took the next generation in this technology to make all that be useful enough to say, not have to use print TV listings anymore.
I did not see Prevue Becomes TV Guide Channel cause I was in bed and had to go to work but I did see TV Guide Channel after I wake up moring before I had to work. Good thing I seen clip now I don't watch TV Guide Network anymore cause it sucks. Let me say RIP Pervue Channel
