Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend , popularly known as "The Dinah", is a five-day weekend getaway and music festival catering to the queer women/non-binary/lesbian community that takes place annually in Palm Springs, California , United States.
141-591: The Dinah Shore Weekend as The Dinah is commonly referred to, was coined after the late Dinah Shore – a singer, TV personality and renowned golfer, whose women's major golf championship was held in the area at the time. The event is not authorised by the Shore estate or the tournament. Born Frances Rose Shore, in 1916, she lived in the Coachella Valley and is credited for having founded in Palm Springs
282-443: A contralto with operatic aspirations, encouraged her. Her father often took her to his store, where she would perform impromptu songs for the customers. In 1924, the Shore family moved to McMinnville, Tennessee , where her father had opened a department store. By her fifth-grade year, the family had moved to Nashville , where she completed elementary school. Although shy because of her limp, she became actively involved in sports,
423-501: A Kiss" being the most popular, reaching number eight. "Blue Canary" [ ru ] was a 1953 hit, and her covers of " Changing Partners " and " If I Give My Heart to You " were popular top-20 hits. " Love and Marriage " and " Whatever Lola Wants " were top-20 hits from 1955. " Chantez, Chantez " was her last top-20 hit, staying on the charts for over 20 weeks in 1957. Shore remained at RCA Victor until 1958, and during that time, released albums including Bouquet of Blues , Once in
564-402: A While , and Vivacious , which were collections of singles with different orchestras and conductors such as Frank DeVol and Hugo Winterhalter . The studio albums Holding Hands at Midnight , from 1955, and Moments Like These , from 1958, recorded in stereo , with orchestra under the musical direction of Harry Zimmerman , who performed the same duties on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show , were
705-856: A black TV-shaped bullet. Stations serving neighboring communities outside the immediate area, but which could also be viewed in the primary local area, were denoted with a black numeral inside a white TV-shaped bullet outlined in black (for example, in the San Francisco edition, stations based in San Francisco or Oakland had their channel numbers listed as white-on-black TV-shaped bullets, while stations serving neighboring Sacramento or Salinas / Monterey (but could still be viewed in parts of San Francisco or Oakland, including their suburbs, as fringe reception) had their channel numbers listed as black-on-white icons). A particular listing could begin with as many as three or more channel bullets depending upon
846-587: A broad range of people to even come here to experience events that are happening because the economic bar is raised". Hanson stated the Dinah Shore Weekend would still be held in Palm Springs, but that it would likely move from April to September due to more favorable weather and hotel rates; that year's event (which marked its 30th anniversary) had already been delayed to October 2021 due to COVID-19 . Dinah Shore Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore ; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994)
987-509: A clay pot on a potter's wheel . Although Dinah's Place featured famous guest stars, Shore often grilled lesser-known lifestyle experts on nutrition, exercise, or homemaking. Despite being one of the more popular programs in NBC's morning lineup, dominating in the timeslot, facing out The Lucy Show reruns on CBS and local programming on ABC, this show left the air in 1974 after NBC sent a telegram to Shore congratulating her on her Emmy win – at
1128-598: A degree in sociology . She visited the Grand Ole Opry and made her radio debut on Nashville's WSM radio station. Shore decided to return to pursuing her career in singing, moving to New York City to audition for orchestras and radio stations. At first she went there on a summer break from Vanderbilt, and after graduation, for good. In many of her auditions, she sang the popular song " Dinah ". When disc jockey Martin Block could not remember her name, he called her
1269-729: A featured vocalist on the NBC Radio program The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street , a showcase for traditional Dixieland and blues songs. With her, the program became so popular, it was moved from 4:30 Sunday afternoon to a 9:00 Monday night time slot in September. In her primetime debut for "the music of the Three Bs, Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie , and the Blues", she was introduced as "Mademoiselle Dinah 'Diva' Shore, who starts
1410-520: A fire by rubbing two notes together!" She recorded with the two Basin Street bands for RCA Victor ; one of her records was the eponymous Dinah's Blues . Shore's singing came to the attention of Eddie Cantor . He signed her as a regular on his radio show, Time to Smile , in 1940. Shore credits him for teaching her self-confidence, comedic timing, and the ways of connecting with an audience. In 1943, Shore appeared in her first movie, Thank Your Lucky Stars , starring Cantor. In August 1944 she toured
1551-551: A foreword on the channel lineup page as well as those that were available mainly on digital cable and satellite; although most of these newly added channels were placed within the prime time grids, only a few (such as Animal Planet and MSNBC ) were also incorporated into the log listings. Features in the magazine were also revamped with the additions of "The Robins Report" (a review column by writer J. Max Robins), "Family Page" (featuring reviews of family-oriented programs) and picks of select classic films airing that week, as well as
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#17327831104591692-424: A grid (a rowed display of listings for programs scheduled to air during the evening hours each night, primarily organized by channel) into the listings between 1979 and 1981, which was slotted at a random page within each day's afternoon listings. The grid originated as a single-page feature that provided a summary of programs airing during prime time (from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. or 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. depending on
1833-482: A guest appearance on Bob Hope 's first network television show on NBC. After guest spots on many television shows, she was given her own program, The Dinah Shore Show on NBC on November 27, 1951. Vic Schoen was her musical director from 1951 to 1954, and also arranged music for her on The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954). In 1956, Shore began hosting a monthly series of one-hour, full-color spectaculars as part of NBC's The Chevy Show series. These proved so popular,
1974-412: A half-page segment, which provided expanded reviews of select programs airing each day (various editions of "Close-Up" were eventually used for different types of programs, from premieres of new series to shows airing on cable). Over time, other regular and recurring features (most of them television-related) were included alongside the listings including "Insider" (a television news and interview section in
2115-425: A handful of cable channels. It also listed a small selection of late-night movies airing on certain channels. The time period of the listings in the daytime grids also shifted from starting at 5:00 a.m. and ending at 5:00 p.m. to running from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. By this point, the log listings were restricted to programs airing from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. In early 2005, more channels were added to
2256-681: A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame when it absorbed the LPGA Hall in 1998. She received the 1993 Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA's highest honor. In 1963, she hired mid-century modern architect Donald Wexler to design her home in Palm Springs . The house was sold to actor Leonardo DiCaprio in 2014 for almost $ 5.5 million. In
2397-409: A page reviewing new home video (and later, DVD ) releases; dedicated pages that respectively listed select sporting events, children's programs and "four-star" movies being broadcast during that week; and crossword puzzles. Although its issues usually focus on different television-related stories week to week, TV Guide also incorporates recurring issues that appear a few times each year, most notably
2538-456: A peak of almost 20 million in 1970. With the $ 2.8 billion acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide by Macrovision on May 2, 2008, that company, which purchased the former mostly to take advantage of their lucrative and profitable VCR Plus and electronic program guide patents , stated it wanted to sell both the magazine and TV Guide Network, along with the company's horse racing channel TVG Network to other parties. On May 18, 2005, TV Guide Talk ,
2679-473: A scale of one [for "poor"] to four [for "excellent"], based on a consensus of reviews from leading film critics, the quality of the film's cast and director, and the film's box office revenue and award wins). Movie icons also were appropriated to identify direct-to-video (marked as "M→V") or made-for-TV (marked as "M→T") releases, which were not assigned star ratings. Beginning with the January 25–31, 1997, issue,
2820-412: A separate guide channel or an electronic program guide that can be activated by remote and provide the same information in a more detailed manner – with additional competition coming in the late 1990s from websites that also specialize in providing detailed television program information (such as TVGuide.com, then jointly operated with TV Guide Magazine , and Zap2It ), a printed listing of programming in
2961-514: A separate magazine became less valuable. The sheer amount and diversity of cable television programming made it hard for TV Guide to provide listings of the extensive array of programming that came directly over the cable system. TV Guide also could not match the ability of the cable box to store personalized listings. Nevertheless, beginning with the September 12–18, 1998, issue, the magazine added several new channels to many of its editions, including those that had previously been mentioned only in
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#17327831104593102-527: A six-year public romance with actor Burt Reynolds , who was 20 years her junior. Her daughter, Melissa Montgomery, is the owner of the rights to most of Shore's television series. In March 2003, PBS presented MWAH! The Best of The Dinah Shore Show 1956–1963 , an hour-long special of early color videotaped footage of Shore in duets with guests Ella Fitzgerald , Jack Lemmon , Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby , Pearl Bailey , George Burns , Groucho Marx , Peggy Lee , and Mahalia Jackson . Shore, who played golf,
3243-593: A special one-hour episode), and political figures (former President Gerald Ford and his wife and former First Lady Betty Ford ). In a coup, Shore got the first post- White House interview given by former First Lady Nancy Reagan . Around this time, she gained a contract as television spokeswoman for Holly Farms chicken. In the 1980s, Shore sang in Glendale Federal Bank television commercials. Her last television special, Dinah Comes Home (TNN 1991), brought Shore's career full-circle, taking her back to
3384-608: A third cable program from 1989 to 1992. Dinah's Place , primarily sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive (which later sponsored her women's golf tournament), was a 30-minute Monday-through-Friday program broadcast at 10:00 am (ET) over NBC, her network home since 1939. Shore described this show as a "Do-Show" as opposed to a chat show because she would have her guests demonstrate an unexpected skill, for example, Frank Sinatra sharing his spaghetti sauce recipe, Vice President Spiro Agnew playing keyboard accompanying Shore on " Sophisticated Lady ", or Ginger Rogers showing Shore how to throw
3525-562: A weekly podcast that was available to download for free, was launched. The podcast was headlined by TV Guide reporter/personality Michael Ausiello , and was co-hosted by his colleagues at the magazine, Matt Webb Mitovich, Angel Cohn, Daniel Manu and Maitland McDonagh . Each episode featured commentary from TV Guide staff on the week's entertainment news stories, television programs, and film releases, as well as occasional interviews with actors, producers, and executives. On April 4, 2008 (following Ausiello's move to Entertainment Weekly ), it
3666-674: A young Barbra Streisand . Over twelve seasons, from 1951 to 1963, Shore made 125 hour-long programs and 444 fifteen-minute shows. She always ended her televised programs by throwing an enthusiastic kiss directly to the cameras (and viewers) and exclaiming "MWAH!" to the audience. Shore also appeared in four specials for ABC (in black-and-white) in the 1964–65 season. They were sponsored by the Purex Corporation . From 1970 through 1980, Shore hosted two daytime programs, Dinah's Place (1970–1974) on NBC and Dinah! (later Dinah and Friends ) in syndication from 1974 through 1980 and
3807-465: Is a website promoted internally as an online "guide to...TV" published by TV Guide ' s parent holding company TVGM Holdings, LLC, which launched in January 2015. The website features reviews and interviews from critics and columnists (such as Matt Roush) who write for the print magazine. TV Insider launched an identically titled print magazine dedicated to streaming services in February 2023, but
3948-430: Is published by NTVB Media, and its issues contain themed features, puzzles, and trivia quizzes. TV Guide Interactive is the former name of an interactive electronic program guide software system incorporated into digital set-top boxes provided by cable providers. The program listings grid rendered by the software was similar to the late-2000s look of the listings of TV Guide Network/TVGN. Macrovision/Rovi later renamed
4089-577: The New York Post , free e-mail updates for registered users, and a chat room that was developed to accommodate 5,000 users simultaneously. Additional changes to the listings took place with the September 14–20, 1996 edition of the print publication. Starting with that issue, program titles switched from being displayed in all-uppercase to being shown in a mixed case, Franklin Gothic typeface, film titles – which had previously been displayed within
4230-519: The Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the Pacific and Mountain time zones (which had existed separately from the local editions prior to the change, although their distribution was primarily limited to hotels ). The change in format was attributed to the increase in the internet , cable television channels (like TV Guide Network), electronic program guides and digital video recorders as
4371-647: The European Theater of Operations hosted by Communications Zone commander Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee . She soon went to another radio show, Paul Whiteman Presents . During this time, the United States was involved in World War II , and Shore became a favorite with the troops. She had hits, including " Blues in the Night ", " Jim ", " You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To ", and " I'll Walk Alone ",
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4512-607: The Norman Lear comedy - soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in April 1976. On the show, Shore interviewed country-singing character Loretta Haggars (played by Mary Kay Place ) and included a controversial comment from Haggars during her appearance on a "live" airing of Shore's talk show. Comedian Andy Kaufman in his Tony Clifton guise appeared on her show but did not, as rumored, throw eggs at Shore or pour them on her head. Shore, with her Dixie drawl and demure manner,
4653-600: The "Dinah girl", and soon after the name stuck, becoming her stage name . She eventually was hired as a vocalist at radio station WNEW , where she sang with Frank Sinatra . She recorded and performed with the Xavier Cugat orchestra, and signed a recording contract with RCA Victor Records in 1940. In March 1939, Shore debuted on national radio on the Sunday-afternoon CBS Radio program, Ben Bernie 's Orchestra . In February 1940, she became
4794-557: The "Fall Preview" (an issue featured since the magazine's inaugural year in 1953, which features reviews of new series premiering during the fall television season), "Returning Favorites" (first published in 1996, featuring previews of series renewed from the previous television season returning for the upcoming fall schedule), "Winter Preview" (first published in 1994 and later known as the "(year) TV Preview" from 2006 to 2009, featuring previews of midseason series) and "The Best Children's Shows on TV" (first published in 1989 and later renamed
4935-501: The "Parents' Guide to Children's Television" in 1990, and finally as the "Parent's Guide to Kids' TV" in 1993, featuring stories and reviews on family-oriented programs). Icons used for other means than identifying listed stations were first added to the magazine around 1956, using the words "SPECIAL" and "COLOR", each set in capital letters inside a rectangular bar, to denote television specials and programs broadcast in color , respectively. TV Guide modified all icons incorporated into
5076-494: The 1960s. The initial cost of each issue was 15¢ per copy (equivalent to $ 1.71 in 2023. The price per issue has gradually risen over the years, selling for $ 4.99 per copy as of 2024). In addition to subscriptions , TV Guide was sold at the checkout counters of grocery stores nationwide. Until the 1980s, the feature pieces included in each issue were promoted in a television commercial . Under Triangle, TV Guide continued to grow not only in circulation, but also in recognition as
5217-601: The Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle women's golf tournament, now known as the LPGA 's Chevron Championship in Texas, The Dinah initially coincided with the tournament, which took place the same weekend. The first unofficial Dinah Shore Weekend took place in 1986 when women began to flock to Palm Springs in conjunction with the tournament. "Loosely organized events with boomboxes and alcohol" took place during
5358-693: The Gemstar purchase) was relegated from the log listings to the grids in most editions. From its inception until 2003, TV Guide had offered listings for the entire week, 24 hours a day. Numerous changes to the local listings took place beginning with the June 21, 2003 issue – in just a few select markets, when the 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday listings were condensed down to four grids: these ran from 5:00 to 8:00 a.m., 8:00 to 11:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. If programming differed from one weekday to
5499-809: The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . In 1991, she was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame . In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC , in 2008. The prototype of what would become TV Guide Magazine
5640-418: The September 13, 2003, "Fall Preview" issue. Other changes were made to the magazine beginning with the June 21 issue in select markets and the 2003 "Fall Preview" issue elsewhere. A half-page daily prime time highlights section featuring the evening's notable shows, movies and sports events – similar to the former "Guidelines" feature – was re-added to the listings section; a full-page "Weekday Highlights" page
5781-649: The TV Guide Network in January 2009. In March 2013, CBS Corporation acquired One Equity Partners' stake of their TV Guide assets. The CBS acquisition was finalized later that month for $ 100 million. On May 31, 2013, CBS bought Lionsgate's share of TV Guide Digital, which includes the website and mobile apps . On January 31, 2014, OpenGate Capital and CBS Interactive announced a deal to cross-promote TV Guide Magazine with TVGuide.com and CBS Interactive's other internet properties (including TV.com , Metacritic and CNET ). In 2020, Red Ventures acquired
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5922-422: The abbreviation "BW") within the listings section. In September 1981, listings began to identify programs presented with closed or open captions or with on-screen sign language interpretation. Being an era when program episodes tended to be faithfully recurring from week to week, TV Guide listings would make note of alterations from the routine or a change in status: "[Gunsmoke is pre-empted]"; "(last episode of
6063-653: The assets of CNET Media Group, including TV Guide, from ViacomCBS. On October 3, 2022, Red Ventures sold TV Guide and other entertainment websites to Fandom Inc. In June 1998, the TV Guide brand and magazine were acquired by United Video Satellite Group , the parent company of the Prevue Channel – a channel first launched in 1981 as the Electronic Program Guide network, that was carried by cable and some satellite television providers and
6204-433: The authority on television programming with articles – the majority of which typically appear in the color section – from both staff and contributing writers. Over the decades, the shape of the TV Guide logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the television screen , eventually adopting a widescreen appearance in September 2003, and then to its current flatscreen appearance in September 2016 (different versions of
6345-436: The beginning and end of the magazine-defined prime time daypart (between 7:30 and 11:00 p.m. or between 6:30 and 10:00 p.m. local time on Monday through Saturdays, and between 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. or between 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. local time on Sundays) delineated by a thicker border. Channels listed in the grid were organized by broadcast stations, basic cable channels, and premium channels. In 1983, depending on
6486-679: The behest of the new sponsor. Mission Hills’ Dinah Shore Course is currently host of the Galleri Classic, a 78-man, 54-hole no-cut tournament on the PGA Tour Champions for players over 50. Shore was the first female member of the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. In acknowledgment of her contributions to golf, Shore was elected an honorary member of the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1994. Shore became
6627-509: The channel airing the program that a user wished to record were listed after each channel in the channel directory page; one- to eight-digit codes for individual programs were listed in the log listings section following the title of each program.) The PlusCodes expanded to all local editions beginning with the September 14–20, 1991, issue. The September 12–18, 1992, issue saw the addition of bullet icons identifying colorized versions of older feature films. On March 7, 1996, TV Guide launched
6768-524: The couple adopted a son, John David "Jody" Montgomery. Missy Montgomery also became an actress. George Jacobs , in his memoir Mr. S about Frank Sinatra , for whom he worked as a longtime valet , claimed Shore and Sinatra had a long-standing affair in the 1950s. After her divorce in 1963 from Montgomery, she briefly married professional tennis player Maurice F. Smith. Her romances of the later 1960s involved comedian Dick Martin , singer Eddie Fisher , and actor Rod Taylor . Starting in 1971, Shore had
6909-486: The cover, was issued for the period from December 25 , 2006 to January 7, 2007. In early 2008, the Monday through Friday daytime and daily late night grids were eliminated from the listings section, and the television highlights section was compressed into a six-page review of the week, rather than the previous two pages for each night. By 2007, TV Guide ' s circulation had decreased to less than three million copies from
7050-460: The description " Local Programming " being used to denote time periods in which syndicated , locally produced or paid programs would air instead of network shows. In September 2006, TV Guide launched a redesigned website , with expanded original editorial and user-generated content not included in the print magazine. On December 22, 2006, TV Guide introduced the magazine's first ever two-week edition. The edition, which featured Rachael Ray on
7191-463: The descriptive log listings for those time periods; this also allowed the grids to be contained to a single page in certain editions that provided listings for more than 20 cable channels. On October 5, 1999, Gemstar International Group Ltd. , the maker of the VCR Plus+ device and schedule system (whose channel and program codes for VCRs using the system for timed recordings were incorporated into
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#17327831104597332-493: The designated market of many editions were the only cable channels listed initially as well as, in certain markets, over-the-air subscription services transmitted over local independent stations (such as ONTV ); local subscription television services were often listed as "STV Programming" or "Subscription Television" for the channel carrying the service, with the service listed separately or, in some editions, not at all. Cable-originated channels – such as HBO , CNN (both of which
7473-494: The digest scale then applied by the parent TV Guide Magazine . The magazine ceased publication following the Spring 1996 issue, with some content covered by the spin-off magazine continuing to be featured in TV Guide ' s annual "Parents' Guide to Kids TV" issue. ReMIND Magazine is a monthly publication dedicated to popular culture nostalgia, specifically in relation to the 1950s–1990s. ReMIND , like TV Guide Magazine ,
7614-402: The distinctive logos used by particular stations (for example, the "Circle 7" logo used for many years primarily by stations either owned by, or affiliated with, ABC). (Black-and-white ads for general products, services and special offers, similar to those seen in other national magazines, were also placed in the listings section.) A regular feature of the listings section was "Close-Up", usually
7755-587: The edition which were scheduled to air the advertised show) were included within the listings. Ads for major network programs were generally produced by the networks themselves (and often, the networks would run a full-page or even a double-truck ad for an entire night of programming, or for a major movie or special, or for the season premiere of a Saturday morning cartoon lineup); ads for locally produced programs, including local newscasts, were produced by individual stations (network affiliates as well as independent stations). Such locally provided ads almost always used
7896-462: The edition, a new feature was added, the "Pay-TV Movie Guide" (renamed the "Premium Channels Movie Guide" in 1997), initially preceded the listings before being moved to the pages immediately following the Friday listings in January 1989, resulting in the national section – which had been cordoned into two sections, both preceding and following the local section – being consolidated into the first half of
8037-439: The end of critic Matt Roush's presence on TVGuide.com. The editorial content of the magazine was launched on a new site, TVGuideMagazine.com, which did not feature TV Guide ' s listings in any form. TVGuideMagazine.com was later shut down on June 1, 2010; TV Guide Magazine and TVGuide.com then entered into a deal to restore content from the magazine to the latter website, which Lionsgate Entertainment had bought along with
8178-609: The event in the TV documentary A Lez in Wonderland (original title: Broute-minou à Palm Springs ). In October 2021, it was announced that the tournament would move to Houston in 2023 as the Chevron Championship due to a new sponsorship agreement; while recognizing the event's tradition, Hanson stated she was supportive of the move, arguing that it made sense for the LPGA since the two events "[made] it difficult for
8319-652: The exceptions. In 1959, Shore left RCA Victor for Capitol Records . Although she recorded only one minor hit for her new label ("I Ain't Down Yet", which peaked at 102 on Billboard 's pop chart in 1960), the collaboration produced four "theme albums" that paired her with arranger Nelson Riddle ( Dinah, Yes Indeed! ), conductor and accompanist André Previn ( Somebody Loves Me and Dinah Sings, Previn Plays ), and jazz 's Red Norvo ( Dinah Sings Some Blues with Red ). Her final two Capitol albums were Dinah, Down Home and The Fabulous Hits (Newly Recorded) . Shore
8460-566: The film description – began appearing before a film's synopsis in an italicized format (replacing the generic "MOVIE" header that had been used to identify films since the magazine's inception), and children's programs that were compliant with the Children's Television Act of 1990 began to be designated by a circular " E/I " icon. In addition, infomercials (which had been designated under the boilerplate title "COMMERCIAL PROGRAM[S]" until 1994, and "INFORMERCIAL[S]" thereafter) ceased being listed in
8601-651: The first of her number-one hits. "Blues in the Night" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA . Shore continued appearing in radio shows throughout the 1940s, including The Bird's Eye Open House and Ford Radio Show . In early 1946, she moved to a new label, the CBS-owned Columbia Records . At Columbia, Shore enjoyed the greatest commercial success of her recording career, starting with her first Columbia single release, " Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy ", and peaking with
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#17327831104598742-469: The first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of eighty charted popular hits, spanning from 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television. She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s. TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of
8883-566: The iGuide, originally developed by the News Corporation- MCI joint venture Delphi Internet Service Corp. as a web portal , which featured more comprehensive television listings data than those offered by the magazine (with information running two weeks in advance of the present date), as well as news content, TV Guide editorial content and a search feature called CineBooks, which allowed users to access detailed information on about 30,000 film titles. Later that year, content from
9024-493: The last station signed off following prime time programs of the calendar day before, possibly as late as 4:00 a.m. The next day's listings could begin as early as 5:00 a.m., or earlier. The advent of cable television would pose challenges to TV Guide . Cable channels began to be listed in the magazine in 1980 or 1981, depending on the edition; the channels listed also differed with the corresponding edition. Regional and national superstations available on cable systems in
9165-423: The lead pages of the color section); "Cheers and Jeers" (a critique page about various aspects of television programming); "Hits and Misses" (featuring brief reviews of select programs in the coming week, rated on a score from 0 to 10); "Guidelines" (a half-page daily section featuring highlights of five or six programs of interest); horoscopes; recaps of the previous week's storylines on network daytime soap operas ;
9306-469: The listings format for all local editions until April 2004. The formation of TV Guide as a national publication resulted from Triangle Publications' purchase of numerous regional television listing publications such as TV Forecast (which was circulated in the Chicago area and, upon its first publication on May 9, 1948, was the first continuously published television listings magazine), TV Digest (which
9447-617: The local listings section in May 1969, changing the font for the TV-shaped bullets identifying local stations from Futura to the standard Helvetica and using similarly TV-shaped bullets marked with the abbreviation "C" to denote color programs (replacing the bar/text icons that had been previously used). As color programming became more ubiquitous, in August 1972, the magazine opted to identify programs originating in black and white (marked under
9588-730: The local listings section, detailed synopses were gradually restricted to series and specials – usually those airing in evening " prime time " timeslots – as well as movies airing on broadcast television, while shorter synopses were used for programs seen on broadcast stations outside of the edition's home market and select cable channels; and only the title along with basic supplementary information (such as genre and/or program length) for most other broadcast and cable programs. In addition, black-and-white ads for programs scheduled to air on broadcast stations – and later, cable channels – during prime time (with local airtimes, and for broadcast stations, information for network-affiliated stations featured in
9729-627: The log listings began incorporating content ratings for programs assigned through the newly implemented TV Parental Guidelines system (the system's content ratings were subsequently added upon their introduction in October 1998). News Corporation sold TV Guide to the United Video Satellite Group, parent company of Prevue Networks , on June 11, 1998, for $ 800 million and 60 million shares of stock worth an additional $ 1.2 billion (this followed an earlier merger attempt between
9870-439: The log's synopses. The "Premium Channels Movie Guide" was also restructured as "The Big Movie Guide", with film listings being expanded to include those airing on all broadcast networks and cable channels featured in each edition (as well as some that were not listed in a particular local edition), as well as movies that were available on pay-per-view (page references to the films included in this section were also incorporated into
10011-433: The logo – the only cosmetic difference being the utilization of different typefaces – are currently used respectively for the magazine and the separately owned, CBS-managed digital properties). At first, the logo had various colored backgrounds (usually black, white, blue or green) until the familiar red background became the standard in the 1960s with occasional customizations being utilized for special editions. The magazine
10152-618: The magazine began hosting the TV Guide Awards , an awards show (which was telecast on Fox) honoring television programs and actors, with the winners being chosen by TV Guide subscribers through a nominee ballot inserted in the magazine. The telecast was discontinued after the 2001 event. The July 17–23, 1999, edition saw the evening grids scaled down to the designated prime time hours, 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. (or 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.) Monday through Saturdays and 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. (or 6:00 to 10:00 p.m.) on Sundays, to complement
10293-436: The magazine ceased publication in April 2024, with some of the content incorporated into an expanded section of the regular TV Guide magazine. TV Weekly is a weekly magazine that offers television listings for viewers in the local markets, featuring the local channels and regional cable networks alongside the major network and cable outlets. The settings are similar to TV Guide's national listings. TV Guide Crosswords
10434-415: The magazine conducted its national launch. The launch as a national magazine with local listings in April 1953 became an almost instant success. However, the circulation decreased over subsequent weeks, even as the magazine's distribution expanded to five additional cities (Pittsburgh, Rochester , Detroit , Cleveland and San Francisco ) throughout the summer of 1953. By mid-August of that year, sales of
10575-428: The magazine during time periods in which stations aired them. (Time-brokered programs continued to be listed in the magazine, but were primarily restricted to religious programming.) Replacing the text identifiers that had been included within the film synopses, theatrically released films also began to be identified by a black-and-white boxed "M" symbol, accompanied depending on the film by its star rating (a formula, on
10716-400: The magazine had dropped 200,000 copies below that of the first issue. TV Guide ' s fortunes began to turn around with the September 4–10, 1953, issue – the magazine's first "Fall Preview" issue – when circulation hit 1,746,327 copies; circulation levels increased steadily over time, to the point where TV Guide eventually became the most read and circulated magazine in the United States by
10857-573: The magazine originally promoted mainly in full-page advertisements), the CBN Cable Network (now Freeform ), the Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS, later succeeded by A&E through its 1984 merger with The Entertainment Channel) and Nickelodeon – were added gradually between the winter of late 1981 and the first half of 1982, depending on the edition. To save page space, TV Guide incorporated
10998-443: The magazine until 1963. The national TV Guide ' s first issue was released on April 3, 1953, accumulating a total circulation of 1,560,000 copies that were sold in the ten U.S. cities where it was distributed. The inaugural cover featured a photograph of Lucille Ball 's newborn son Desi Arnaz Jr. , with a downscaled inset photo of Ball placed in the top corner under the issue's headline: "Lucy's $ 50,000,000 baby". The magazine
11139-406: The magazine's first 52 years of publication, listings information was displayed in a "log" format, a mainly text-based list of programs organized by both start time and channel, which was the sole method – eventually, primary once prime time grids were incorporated, and later secondary for the final two years of its inclusion of local listings – of displaying program information in TV Guide until
11280-655: The magazine's listings in 1988), and which incidentally was partially owned by News Corporation, purchased United Video Satellite Group. The two companies were previously involved in a legal battle over the intellectual property rights for their respective interactive program guide systems, VCR Plus+ and TV Guide On Screen , that began in 1994. That month, TV Guide debuted a 16-page insert into editions in 22 markets with large Hispanic populations titled TV Guide en Español , which provided programming information from national Spanish language networks (such as Univision and Telemundo ) as well as special sections with reviews of
11421-406: The magazine, including TV Guide Close-Up , TV Guide Sportsview (which was formatted more similarly to the listings section's sports guide than the color column of that name) and TV Guide Insider . After Gemstar's acquisition of TV Guide , the channel began to shift toward airing full-length programs featuring celebrity gossip and movie-focused talk shows alongside the program listings. The channel
11562-562: The magazine. That year, United Video acquired TVSM Inc. (publishers of competing listings guides Total TV and The Cable Guide ) in a $ 75 million all-cash acquisition; as a result, TV Guide merged with Total TV , and began printing a version of the magazine in the latter magazine's full-size format (while retaining the original digest size version) effective with the July 11, 1998, issue. Because most cable systems published their own listing magazine reflecting their channel lineup, and now had
11703-504: The most popular song of 1948, " Buttons and Bows ", (with Henri René & Orchestra), which was number one for ten weeks, and her second million selling record. Other number-one hits at Columbia included " The Gypsy " and " The Anniversary Song ". Shore soon became a successful singing star with her own radio show, Call for Music , which was broadcast on CBS from February 13, 1948, to April 16, 1948, and on NBC from April 20, 1948, to June 29, 1948. One of her most popular recordings
11844-410: The next, the generic descriptor "Various Programs" was listed. The weekday grid maintained day-to-day listings for certain cable channels (primarily movie channels as well as a limited number of basic cable channels such as Lifetime , The History Channel and USA Network ), which were organized separately from the other channels. These changes became permanent in all TV Guide editions beginning with
11985-492: The number of cable channels that were only listed in the grids expanded, with the addition of channels such as BBC America, Soapnet and the National Geographic Channel (some editions also featured a limited number of broadcast stations – either in-market, out-of-market or both – exclusively in the grids). Conversely, sister cable network TV Guide Channel (whose listings were added to the magazine after
12126-634: The number of stations in the immediate and surrounding areas broadcasting the same program at that particular time (usually different affiliates of the same network, based in the primary city as well as in neighboring areas). See the subsection " Listings section ", in the "Editions" section below, for a detailed explanation. Originally, the majority of programs listed in the log each issue featured brief synopses, except for local and national newscasts, and programs airing on certain stations in various timeslots. As other broadcast television stations and cable channels were added, due to set space requirements for
12267-459: The pages comprising each issue. Preceding this addition, some editions carried The "Movie Guide", which also preceded the listings, provided summaries of films scheduled to air over the next one to two weeks on the cable channels included in both the log and grid listings (excluding those featured exclusively in the grids) as well as a first-page summary of the films scheduled to premiere that week (arranged by channel and sub-categorized by title). As
12408-546: The popular weekly publication. Printing of the national color section of TV Guide – which incorporates television-related stories, and select feature columns such as program reviews – took place at Triangle's Gravure Division plant – which was known for performing some of the highest quality printing in the industry, with almost always perfect registration – located adjacent to the company's landmark Inquirer Building on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The color section
12549-405: The prime time and late-night grids. On July 26, 2005, Gemstar-TV Guide announced that TV Guide would abandon its longtime digest size format and begin printing as a larger full-size national magazine that would offer more stories and fewer program listings. All 140 local editions were eliminated, being replaced by two editions covering the time zones within the contiguous United States : one for
12690-489: The prime time grids and log listings). Beginning in January 2004, the midnight to 5:00 a.m. listings (as well as the Saturday and Sunday 5:00 to 8:00 a.m. listings) ceased to include any broadcast stations outside of the edition's home market, leaving only program information for stations within the home market and for cable channels. The magazine's format was changed beginning with the April 11, 2004, issue to start
12831-573: The print publication was added to iGuide as well as content from News Corporation's other media properties. On January 13, 1997, shortly before MCI bowed out of the venture, iGuide was relaunched as the TV Guide Entertainment Network (TVGEN), which was renamed TV Guide Online in 2002. The refocused site covered television, music, movies and sports (with content concerning the latter sourced from Fox Sports ), along with wire news and features from Reuters , Daily Variety and
12972-506: The product as i-Guide after the spin-off of the TV Guide publications. A separate IPG system, TV Guide On Screen , was a brand name for Guide Plus+ , a build of software featured in products such as televisions, DVD and digital video recorders , and other digital television devices providing on-screen program listings. First marketed in the mid-1990s, it was originally owned by Gemstar-TV Guide International before being acquired by
13113-427: The programs' Nielsen rating. Examples include American Idol , Heroes , Lost , Survivor , Gilmore Girls , Veronica Mars , and Project Runway (the latter three being examples a low-rated shows which nevertheless have sizable online followings). Each podcast also ended with a weekly review of that weekend's new theatrical releases. On October 13, 2008, Macrovision sold the money-losing magazine (which
13254-462: The removal of the "Guidelines" feature in the listings section in favor of the new highlight page "Don't Miss" (listing choice programs selected by the magazine's staff for the coming week) in the national color section. Listings for movies within the log also began identifying made-for-TV and direct-to-video films, as well as quality ratings on a scale of one to four stars (signifying movies that have received "poor" to "excellent" reviews). In 1999,
13395-451: The same time informing her the show was being cancelled, because it broke up a " game show programming block " and competition from The Joker's Wild on CBS, which started two years earlier. Thus ended the network's 35-year association with Shore. She returned that fall with Dinah! , a syndicated 90-minute daily talk show (also seen in a 60-minute version on some stations) that put the focus on top guest stars and entertainment. This show
13536-409: The series)", "Debut: ", "Special". Until the 1970s, double-feature or triple-feature movie presentations by a station would be listed at the starting time of the first feature: "MOVIE--Double Feature", then list the movies with numeric bullets in front of each title and synopsis; subsequent to 1970, the magazine listed each movie in its own time entry. A day's listings continued well past midnight until
13677-467: The short-lived variety series The Gloria Swanson Hour , appeared on the cover of the first issue. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of The TeleVision Guide for New England and the Baltimore – Washington area. Five years later, he sold the editions to Walter Annenberg , who folded it into his publishing and broadcasting company Triangle Publications , but remained as a consultant for
13818-535: The show was renamed The Dinah Shore Chevy Show the following season, with Shore becoming the full-time host, helming three of four weeks in the month. Broadcast live and in NBC's famous "Living Color", this variety show was one of the most popular of the 1950s and early 1960s and featured the television debuts of stars of the era, such as Yves Montand and Maureen O'Hara , and featured Shore in performances alongside Ella Fitzgerald , Mahalia Jackson , Peggy Lee , Frank Sinatra, and Pearl Bailey . Tennessee Ernie Ford
13959-463: The sources of choice for viewers' program listings. The new version of TV Guide went on sale on October 17, 2005, and featured Extreme Makeover: Home Edition host Ty Pennington on the cover. The listings format, now consisting entirely of grids, also changed to start the listings in each week's issue on Monday rather than Sunday. As a result of the elimination of the local editions, broadcast stations were replaced by broadcast network schedules with
14100-475: The special, Pee-wee walks past the picturephone, only to hear her going past the original 12 days ("...on the 500th day of Christmas ..."). Shore finished her television career by appearing on "Murder, She Wrote" in 1989, and hosting A Conversation with Dinah (1989–1992) on the cable network TNN ( The Nashville Network ). This half-hour show consisted of one-on-one interviews with celebrities and comedians (such as Bob Hope), former boyfriends ( Burt Reynolds in
14241-810: The spring of 1993, Shore was diagnosed with ovarian cancer . She died of complications from the disease at her home in Beverly Hills, California , on February 24, 1994. Her body was cremated the same day. Some of the ashes were interred in two memorial sites: the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California , and Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) . Other ashes went to relatives. In both Cathedral City and Rancho Mirage, California , streets are named after her. Her hometown of Winchester, Tennessee , honored her with Dinah Shore Boulevard . In 1989, she received
14382-491: The stage of the Grand Ole Opry , which she first visited some sixty years earlier. Shore won nine Emmys, a Peabody Award , and a Golden Globe Award . Shore's talk shows sometimes included cooking segments, and she wrote cookbooks including Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah . Shore was married to actor George Montgomery from 1943 to 1962. She gave birth to daughter Melissa Ann "Missy" Montgomery, in January 1948. Later
14523-419: The start of prime time within a given time zone ) on the stations mentioned in the corresponding edition; by 1983, it was expanded to a two-page section – which began to take up roughly three-quarters of the two adjoining pages on which it was placed – that included programs airing during the early access and late fringe periods (from 5:00 to 11:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. local time), with
14664-418: The switch to national listings in 2005. This allowed for the display of full titles for each program as well as the inclusion of synopses for movies and most programs. Most listing entries in the log included program genres (and for national news programs, anchors ) after the program's title, while its running time (which was mentioned only if a program lasted a minimum of one hour – later 35 minutes – in length)
14805-459: The television series The L Word had an episode set as happening at the weekend, which helped heighten its visibility. The following year, attendance doubled - the Saturday night party jumped to 2500 from 1200 the year prior. In 2005 the partnership between Hanson and Sach & Gans dissolved, with competing Palm Springs parties happening the same weekend. That state continued until 2012 when Sachs and Gans relocated to Las Vegas for an event which
14946-498: The top 50 television stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page . Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore was born on February 29, 1916, to Russian-Jewish immigrant shopkeepers, Anna ( née Stein) and Solomon Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee . She had an elder sister, eight years her senior, Elizabeth, known as "Bessie". When Fanny
15087-828: The tournament in the late 1980s. After-dinner parties following the golfing turned benefits for the Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Service Foundation. The first Dinah Shore event was produced as a one night party in 1991 by Mariah Hanson under her Club Skirts Presents The Dinah Marquee at the Palm Springs Art Museum . The early years had the event as co-produced by Hanson and Sandy Sachs and Dr. Robin Gans (promoters of Girl Bar in West Hollywood) beginning in 1992. In 2003
15228-406: The two companies in 1996 that eventually fell apart). Following the sale, reports suggested that TV Guide would remove program listings from the magazine, shifting them entirely to its new sister cable network Prevue Channel, which would be rebranded as a result of United Video's purchase of TV Guide Magazine ; News Corporation executives later stated that listings information would remain part of
15369-522: The week's biggest new story in the entertainment industry, whether it be a television program or something outside the scope of television show or movie (such as the Academy Awards or the Emmys ). The middle part was devoted to discussion and commentary on individual shows. The podcast emphasized programs that tend to have a large online following even if that following is not necessarily reflected in
15510-400: The week's listings in each issue on Sunday (the day in which television listings magazines supplemented in newspapers traditionally began each week's listings information), rather than Saturday. In July 2004, the overnight listings were removed entirely, replaced by a grid that ran from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. that included only the broadcast stations in each edition's home market and
15651-474: The week's notable programs. The magazine discontinued the insert in March 2000 due to difficulties resulting from confusion by advertisers over its marketing as "the first weekly Spanish-language magazine", despite its structure as an insert within the main TV Guide publication. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of TV Guide as a national magazine, in 2002, the magazine published six special issues: By 2003,
15792-604: The years went on, more cable channels were added into the listings of each edition. To help offset this, the May 11–17, 1985, issue introduced a smaller Helvetica font for the log, along with some other cosmetic changes; in particular, a show's length began to be listed after the show's title instead of at the end of its synopsis. That issue also saw advertising for local stations featured in the corresponding edition be restricted to certain special events, with most program promotions being restricted to those for national broadcast and cable networks. On August 7, 1988, Triangle Publications
15933-516: Was a cheerleader at Nashville's Hume-Fogg High School , and was involved in other activities. When Shore was 16, her mother died unexpectedly from a heart attack . Pursuing her education, Shore enrolled at Vanderbilt University , where she participated in many events and activities, including the Chi chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. She graduated from the university in 1938 with
16074-634: Was a featured guest on one show, and she introduced him, tongue-in-cheek , as "Tennessee Ernie CHEVROLET!!" She also appeared as a guest on The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom . The Dinah Shore Chevy Show ran through the 1960–61 season, after which Chevrolet dropped sponsorship, and Shore hosted a series of monthly broadcasts sponsored by the American Dairy Association and Green Stamps . Simply called The Dinah Shore Show , Shore's guests included Nat "King" Cole , Bing Crosby , Jack Lemmon , Boris Karloff , Betty Hutton , Art Carney , and
16215-633: Was a longtime supporter of women's professional golf . In 1972, she helped found the Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Tournament, which, in its current identity as the Chevron Championship , remains one of the major golf tournaments on the LPGA Tour. Until 2022, the tournament was held each spring at Mission Hills Country Club , near Shore's former home in Rancho Mirage, California . The event moved to Texas in 2023 at
16356-471: Was a quarterly spin-off publication which was first released on newsstands on May 27, 1993. The magazine featured reviews on television shows, home videos, music, books and toys marketed to children ages 2 to 12, as well as behind-the-scenes features centering on children's television shows and films. To limit confusion among readers, the Parents' Guide issues were printed as a standard-size magazine instead of
16497-735: Was a regular with Jack Smith on his quarter-hour radio show on CBS. Shore was a musical guest in the films Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Follow the Boys (1944), and Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) and had starring roles in Danny Kaye's debut Up in Arms (1944) and Belle of the Yukon (1944). She lent her musical voice to two Disney films: Make Mine Music (1946) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947). Her last starring film role
16638-496: Was a spin-off publication, first published in the late 1980s, based on the crossword puzzle feature in the penultimate page of each issue. The puzzles featured in TV Guide and the standalone magazine featured answers related to television programs, films, actors, entertainment history and other entertainment-related trivia. In addition to the regular magazine, TV Guide Crosswords also published special editions as well as books. TV Guide's Parents' Guide to Children's Entertainment
16779-406: Was also added featuring guest and topical information for the week's daytime talk and morning shows as well as picks for movies airing during the day on broadcast and cable channels. In addition, while log listings continued in use for prime time listings, program synopses were added to the grids and log, as well as a " NEW " indicator for first-run episodes, replacing the "(Repeat)" indicator in
16920-591: Was an American singer, actress, television personality, and the chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved even greater success a decade later in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company. After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman , and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey , Shore struck out on her own. She became
17061-416: Was announced that the podcast would be ending, and the final episode (Episode No. 139) was released on April 10, 2008. TV Guide Talk podcasts were released every Friday afternoon and averaged an hour in length. They featured the participants discussing and commenting on the past week in television and the entertainment industry in general. The beginning of each podcast was devoted to in-depth discussion on
17202-519: Was called Girl Bar Dinah Shore Week Las Vegas. The event initially was viewed as a party weekend, with the New York Times in 2007 calling it " Girls Gone Wild for Girls" and Sports Illustrated calling it "lesbian spring break". Beginning in the late 2010s, the event started to rebrand itself as "the largest and most famous girl party music festival in the world" in an effort to move away from that image. In 2006 Guinevere Turner featured
17343-560: Was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area listings magazine The TeleVision Guide , which was first released on local newsstands on June 14 of that year. Silent film star Gloria Swanson , who then starred in
17484-617: Was distributed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh , and was originally distributed under the title, the Local Televiser , when it was first released on November 7, 1948), and the New York-based Television Guide (which had its title abbreviated to TV Guide on March 18, 1950). Each of the cities that had their own local TV listings magazine folded into TV Guide were among the initial cities where
17625-699: Was dropped by Capitol in 1962 and recorded only a handful of albums over the next two decades. She recorded Lower Basin Street Revisited for friend Frank Sinatra 's Reprise label in 1965, Songs for Sometime Losers (Project 3, 1967), Country Feelin ' ( Decca , 1969), Once Upon A Summertime (Stanyan, 1975), and Dinah! , a double LP for Capitol in 1976. She recorded this album at the height of her talk show fame, and it featured her take on contemporary hits such as " 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover ", " The Hungry Years ", and " Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) ". Her final studio album
17766-410: Was eighteen months old, she was stricken with polio (infantile paralysis). The only known treatment was bed rest and sometimes more extreme care if the child was severely compromised. Her mother provided extensive care for her, which included regular therapeutic massage and a strict exercise program. She recovered, but sustained a deformed foot and limp. Fanny loved to sing as a small child; her mother,
17907-480: Was first based in a small office in downtown Philadelphia, before moving to more spacious national headquarters in Radnor , Pennsylvania , in the late 1950s. The new facility had a large lighted TV Guide logo at the building's entrance. It housed management, editors, production personnel and subscription processors as well as a vast computer system holding data on every television show and movie available for listing in
18048-592: Was for Paramount Pictures in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952). In 1950, Shore returned to RCA Victor with a deal to record 100 sides for $ 1 million (equivalent to $ 12.7 million in 2023). The hits kept coming, but with less frequency, and were not charting as high as in the 1940s. Shore's biggest hits of this era were " My Heart Cries for You " and " Sweet Violets ", both peaking at number three in 1951. Several duets with Tony Martin did well, with "A Penny
18189-775: Was identified with the South , and guests on her shows often commented on it. She spoofed this image by playing Melody in " Went with the Wind! ", the famous Gone with the Wind parody for The Carol Burnett Show . In the summer of 1976, Shore hosted Dinah and Her New Best Friends , an eight-week summer replacement series for The Carol Burnett Show which featured a cast of young hopefuls such as Diana Canova and Gary Mule Deer , along with such seasoned guests as Jean Stapleton and Linda Lavin . Shore guest-starred on Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special , calling Pee-wee on his picturephone and singing " The 12 Days of Christmas ". Throughout
18330-416: Was listed (in hours and minutes) in the synopses. Channel numbers were set in a tiny round icon (known as a "bullet") at the beginning of the listing. This bullet was soon modified to be the shape of a TV screen, similar to the shape of the TV Guide logo. In most editions, stations serving a particular edition's immediate local coverage area were denoted with a white numeral for its channel number set inside
18471-477: Was originally formatted to feature a scrolling program guide , short segments featuring previews of upcoming programs, and promos and short-form film trailers for programs airing on various channels. Its new owners promptly rebranded Prevue as the TV Guide Channel on February 1, 1999. With the rebranding, some of the hourly segments featured on the channel at that point were renamed after features in
18612-442: Was published in digest size , which remained its printed format for 52 years. From its first issue until the July 2–8, 1954, issue, listings within each edition of TV Guide began on Friday and ended on Thursday; the July 9–16, 1954, issue began on a Friday and ended on the following Friday. Then, beginning with the July 17–23, 1954, issue, the listings in each week's issue changed to start on Saturday and end on Friday, which remained
18753-474: Was rebranded as the TV Guide Network in 2007. Following the respective sales of TV Guide's magazine and cable channel by Macrovision to OpenGate Capital and Lionsgate, the magazine and TV Guide Network became operationally separate, although the two properties still collaborated on content for TVGuide.com. After CBS Corporation bought stakes in TV Guide's properties in March 2013, TV Guide Network
18894-398: Was rebranded under the abbreviated name TVGN that April to de-emphasize its ties to TV Guide Magazine , as part of a transition into a general entertainment format while the channel gradually decommissioned its scrolling listings grid. The network was relaunched as Pop on January 14, 2015, with its programming focus shifting towards shows about pop culture and its fandom . TV Insider
19035-680: Was released in 1979, Dinah!: I've Got a Song, for the Children's Television Workshop . Shore starred in seven radio series of her own between 1941 and 1954. She made hundreds of guest appearances in shows including an episode of Suspense ("Frankie and Johnny", May 5, 1952). Soon after Shore arrived in New York in 1937, aged 21, Shore made her first television appearances on experimental broadcasts for NBC over station W2XBS in New York (now WNBC ). Twelve years later, in 1949, she made her commercial television debut on The Ed Wynn Show from Los Angeles over CBS and on Easter Sunday 1950, made
19176-432: Was reportedly posting revenue losses of $ 20 million per year by that point) to Beverly Hills -based equity fund OpenGate Capital for $ 1, and a $ 9.5 million loan at 3% interest. As part of the sale, however, Macrovision retained ownership of the companion website – which was then sold to equity firm One Equity Partners for $ 300 million – which severed all editorial connections between the magazine and website, including
19317-434: Was seen as competition for Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin , whose shows had been on the air for ten years when Dinah! debuted. Frequent guests included entertainment figures ( Lucille Ball , Bob Hope , and Jimmy Stewart ), as well as regular contributors including lifestyle guru Dr. Wayne Dyer . Unexpected rock music performance appearances included Tina Turner , David Bowie , and Iggy Pop . Shore also appeared on
19458-631: Was sold to the News America Corporation arm of News Corporation for $ 3 billion, one of the largest media acquisitions of the time and the most expensive publication transaction at the time. The November 3–9, 1990, issue saw the addition of VCR Plus+ codes in some of the magazine's regional editions, for users with devices incorporating the technology – which was developed by eventual TV Guide parent Gemstar International Group Ltd. – to input into their VCRs to automatically record television programs. (Two-digit PlusCodes corresponding to
19599-516: Was the holiday perennial " Baby, It's Cold Outside " with Buddy Clark from 1949. The song was covered by many other artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald . Other hits during her four years at Columbia included " Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside) ", "I Wish I Didn't Love You So", " (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons ", " Doin' What Comes Natur'lly ", and " Dear Hearts and Gentle People ". She
19740-1028: Was then sent to regional printers to be wrapped around the local listing sections. In addition to TV Guide and its flagship newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer , Triangle Publications also owned the Philadelphia Daily News ; ten radio and six television stations ( WFIL AM - FM - TV in Philadelphia, WNHC AM - FM - TV in New Haven, Connecticut , KFRE AM - FM - TV in Fresno, California , WNBF AM - FM - TV in Binghamton, New York , WFBG AM - FM - TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania and WLYH-TV in Lancaster – Lebanon, Pennsylvania ), as well as The Daily Racing Form ; The Morning Telegraph ; Seventeen ; and various cable television interests. (It
19881-613: Was under Triangle's ownership of WFIL-TV that American Bandstand came to popularity, which, in turn, led to host Dick Clark ascending to become a major television personality.) Triangle Publications sold its Philadelphia newspapers to Knight Newspapers in 1969, its radio and television stations during the early 1970s to Capital Cities Communications (the television stations that are now known as KFSN-TV and WPVI-TV were subsequently acquired by ABC through its 1986 merger with Capital Cities) and various other interests, retaining only TV Guide , Seventeen and The Daily Racing Form . For
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