Electronic Program Guide in Naperville, IL on 10/12/87

[MatthewMTU]

Is it true that back then you needed to hook up a Amiga computer to get this menu guide?

[thesnare100]

@MatthewMTU Not on your TV at least, you would just turn on the channel and see this

[spase667]

Oh my God, those were the days. Some of my earliest memories were of this thing. The one in Rockford where I lived had a weather broadcast in the background.

[jaworskij]

@dgendvil , the scrolling EPG was fine to display ... up to about 40 channels ... then they are slooooowww.

[Jeffrey6978]

Thanks for uploading this, it's really awesome to see how this channel used to be back in the year I was born.

I liked how they played music from the radio station in the background.

I had never seen the Electronic Program Guide before, but I definitely remember the Prevue Channel before it became the TV Guide Channel, I like both of them better than the TV Guide Channel.

But now it seems that the TV Guide Channel is going to completely get rid of the TV listings altogether after 25 years. :(

[JoebDragon]

The guide data comes for wgn america a channle that was never on any Chicagoland cable system. So they did have it but never offered wgn america and wgn ota to people in Chicago land.

[BRANDASHQ5]

Davismv, do you want to upload the last minutes of the EPG and the first minutes of Prevue Guide please?

[gfxdave99]

These were all run on Amiga's occasionally it would crash and you would see a flashing guru meditation error.

[davismv]

I actually have a video somewhere of the error message you speak of - looked kinda like DOS in a red colored small text. So this was an Amiga, huh? I hate the TV guide channel these days and miss this one. I recorded a lot of this stuff like this at the unused ends of videotapes. Will need to go through and post more, as there is a small group of followers on this. Did you see the Telaction video I posted, by chance? Now that's a blast from the past.

[JoebDragon]

People also like to record Weather Star video as well.

[EStar7580]

Me too! As a matter of fact, this i WAS more like a radio station;

WEPG, 66.1 FM, Naperville, IL, lol

[JoebDragon]

any have any video of the zap 2 it Channel guide? it was like this and WOW cable had it 2-4 years ago much better then the ad filled TV GUIDE.

[Digatone]

I also remember when Media General Cable add Premium Prevue Channel next to Electronic Program Guide then when TV Guide buy out Prevue they became Premium TV Guide Channel

[Digatone]

Media General Cable in Fairfax Country VA now Cox Cable use to have Electronic Program Guide from 1985 untill 1996 when it was replace by Prevue Channel which later became TV Guide Channel

[mgsnv2]

Bravo was a premium service? I remember the days when Disney was a paid channel.

[wtbsfan]

wkkd-98.1 fm radio

[JoebDragon]

analog cable is dieing and digital has it's own guide on screen also there is full screen TV Guide channel with no guide at all.

It may be fun to a fake HD 16:9 EPG and or a digital full screen guide for mini digital boxes with no guide.

[FunniGui]

Is the John Hughes who is selling the weight control program mabey the "The Breakfast Club" director/writer? He is from Chicago...

[woddfellow2]

At about 1m00s, someone misspelt "you're" as "YOUR".

[gvk9r]

My grandparents once had the same exact Electronic Program Guide station too, but with a ad ticker on the bottom of the screen.

Their cable company later replaced it with the TV Guide Network (which was then the Prevue Channel) sometime around the mid 1990s.

[retrochad]

That is exactly like the one I remember on Adelphia Cable years ago...Wow, there is actually a live announcer on the radio at 1AM, usually today it is all automated at that hour.