Large Format Editions

Page Last Updated: 11/7/2000

TV Guide has done it again!

The came out with the new (again!) Large Format editions upon buying the cable magazine "Total TV". To throw a twist into the mix, the editions come out 2 ways: through the local cable company (not available on newsstands) and "off the shelf" (available at grocery stores everywhere...). In addition, the magazine has "migrated" into what they call the "Ultimate Cable" edition, where they list stations not listed anywhere else, but have abandoned the traditional listings format and the infamous "bullets" for an all grid with "TV Guidelines" for some programs.

It looks like TV Guide is pulling out of some of the editions: there is confirmation that both Greater Houston and Cincinnati Metro are no longer in print. No telling which other editions are gone (and what new editions exist).

Click Here for a list of large format editions from TV Guide as of 9/1/99

Click Here for a picture of the cover of the first large format.

Here are the editions I have so far (links to lineups provided where available, Bold text indicates newly found editions; this is not a trading list):

Code    Description                           Comments
----    ------------------------------------- ---------------------------------
8013/D1 Optimum TV, A Service of Cablevision  Brooklyn/Bronx
8060/D2 Optimum TV, A Service of Cablevision  Cablevision of New Jersey: 
                                              Bergen/Bayonne/Hudson NJ
8044/D3 Oakland Rebuild                       Cablevision of New Jersey
8080/D4 Cablevision                           South Westchester County: 
                                              Eastchester/Bronxville/Tuckahoe
8030/D7 Optimum TV                            Long Island
8063/D8 Cablevision                           Westchester, County, NY 
                                                (formerly Yonkers, NY)
8019/D9 Comcast                               Comcast Baltimore 
E5      MediaOne                              Lansing, Michigan
8074/E6 Optimum TV, a Service of Cablevision  Bridgeport, CT 
E7      Detroit Metro                         
8308/E7 Detroit Newstand                     
8016/E8 Optimum TV, a Service of Cablevision  Norwalk, CT
8036/E9 Cox of Connecticut                    Manchester, Meridan, Enfield 
8071/F1 AT&T Cable Services Elm-Peo-Romeo     Chicago: Elmhurst/Peotone/Romeoville
F3      MediaOne Post Rebuild                 Chicago Suburbs
F3      AT&T Cable Services Post Rebuild      Chicago Suburbs
F4      AT&T Cable Services Oak Park          Chicago Suburbs 
F7      Baltimore Metro                       
8031/F8 Omaha                                 Cox Cable 
8018/F9 Optimum TV, a Service of Cablevision  Boston, MA
G1      MediaOne                              Dayton, OH Region
8052/G1 Time Warner                           Dayton, OH Region
8055/G2 Time Warner                           Northwest Central Ohio
G4      Optimum TV                            Cleveland, OH
8075/G5 Cablevision                           Cleveland Heights, OH
8324/G6 South Central Pennsylvania            
8325/G7 Eastern Pennsylvania
G8      Cox Cable                             Parma, Ohio
8028/J1 Los Angeles                           Charter Communications
8079/J2 Inland Empire                         Comcast: San Bernardino CA
8024/J3 Santa Barbara/Bakersfield, CA         Cox Cable
J5      San Diego                             Cox Cable (South)
8006/J6 San Diego North                       Cox Cable
J7      Time Warner San Diego                 San Diego & Coronado
J7      San Diego Southwest                   Southwestern Cable/American Cablevision
8057/J8 Carlsbad, CA                          Daniels Cablevision
8323/J9 Los Angeles                           
8035/K1 Cox of Rhode Island                   Cox Cable-Providence & Region 
K4      Extended Lineup AZ                    Cox Cable-Phoenix/Mesa/Tempe
K7      Scottsdale, AZ                        Cox Cable-Scottsdale/Carefree/
                                              Rio Verde/Tonto Verde
K8      Tucson, AZ                            Jones Intercable
8087/L2 Cablevision                           Rockland/Morris/Newark (NY/NJ)
L4      Cablevision                           Ramapo/Warwick/Raritan (NY/NJ)
8017/L5 Cablevision Suburbs                   Boston MA Area
8321/L9 Raleigh/Durham
8300/N1 Atlanta Metro                         
8317/N2 South Florida                         
8309/N4 Cincinnati Metro
8311/N5 Greater Columbus, OH                  
8319/N7 Kentucky
8305/N8 Montgomery County, MD                 
8316/O1 Orlando-Daytona Beach
8092/O2 TCI Portland                          
8092/O2 AT&T West Portland                    
8093/O3 Paragon Portland Cable                
8093/O3 AT&T East Portland Cable              
8318/O8 Greater Houston                       
8303/P7 Las Vegas Metro
8306/P8 Seattle-Tacoma
8400/QA Ultimate Satellite                    Netlink Customers

E-mail me ( NOSPAMtvgfan@houston.rr.com - Hint: remove the "NOSPAM") if you are aware of any others.

A 4 digit number followed by the "edition code" indicates an Ultimate Cable edition
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