net tv guide?

September 6, 2005 6:04 PM

What website do you use for channel listings?

I've always subscribed to tv guide, but I've decided to let my subscription lapse. What's the best site to replace it?

posted by gtr to Computers & Internet (14 answers total)

i use tv.yahoo.com
posted by clarahamster at 6:09 PM on September 6, 2005

I'm also a fan of Yahoo TV. I have a free Yahoo account and set "My Yahoo" as my homepage. I added a "TV" block to my homepage and selected my favorite channels to show up in it so they're right there on my homepage.
posted by awegz at 6:13 PM on September 6, 2005

I use zap2it.
posted by box at 6:14 PM on September 6, 2005

If I care to look in advance, it is yahoo. However, isn't this what the clicker was made for? Click away until you find what you like, and if you don't find anything you like you just click, click, click . . . .
posted by caddis at 6:18 PM on September 6, 2005

It'd be helpful if we knew which country you lived in. Different countries have different TV schedules. I use Radio Times.
posted by nylon at 6:29 PM on September 6, 2005

I use my way. You can set up your own page. Works great! I've given up TV Guide.
posted by airgirl at 6:30 PM on September 6, 2005

Yahoo. TV Guide's online site has ads that make it completely unusable.
posted by scazza at 6:48 PM on September 6, 2005

yup. Yahoo. the customized listings are great (i don't need to know what's on 17 different ESPNs)
posted by amberglow at 7:05 PM on September 6, 2005

I like both tv.yahoo.com and zap2it. IMHO tv.yahoo.com is better because it gives you more episode information than zap2it.
posted by gyc at 7:54 PM on September 6, 2005

You might want to check out myepisodes.com. They are not a TV listing service per se. Instead, you create a (free) account, and put a check next to every show you care about. Then you get a nice personal page that tells you when all those shows are on, organized by day. You can set the number of days prior and after the current date, so for example you could set it to show your shows from -3 to +7 days from now. It seems to have been designed with people that pirate download TV shows on the internet in mind, but you can still benefit from it if you're not into that.

For regular TV listings, tv.yahoo.com is great.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:57 PM on September 6, 2005

The Radio Times
posted by ajbattrick at 1:29 AM on September 7, 2005

Definitely TitanTV. It has separate listings for HDTV content, if you have an HDTV compatible system, but does a great job of the regular channel listings as well. It's also highly configurable.

There is even a Greasemonkey script (on the right column) to get rid of the banner ads on the page.
posted by tuxster at 6:16 AM on September 7, 2005

tv.yahoo.com + Adblock
posted by rxrfrx at 8:11 AM on September 7, 2005

I just found MeeVee. After years of planning to install an ad blocker, this motivated me to do it immediately. It's unusable withou one. The feature that I'm looking for is keeping track of favorite tv shows. Zap2it used to do that althought I think it might have been called something else at the time. MeeVee was the first thing I found that did this. TitanTV looks like it has a comparable feature but myway, yahoo and tvguide don't.

I also checked out myepisodes. The rss feature looks like it might be a nice complement to MeeVee. That's another feature that I've been looking for.
posted by stuart_s at 12:52 PM on September 7, 2005