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[citation needed] 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 ...
The prototype of what would become TV Guide Magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), [5] 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.
Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [9] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
According to the September 13, 1958, Utah-Idaho edition, there were 51 regional editions of TV Guide being printed in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, regional editions in the United States can be assumed to have ended with the October 9, 2005, issue, after which TV Guide began publishing national listings based on time zone.
Sales of TV Guide began to reverse course with the 4–10 September 1953, "Fall Preview" issue, which had an average circulation of 1,746,327 copies; by the mid-1960s, TV Guide had become the most widely circulated magazine in the United States. [9] Print TV listings were a common feature of newspapers from the late-1950s to the mid-2000s.
TV Guide is published for the first time, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000. May 25 KUHT , the first non-commercial educational television station signs on the air in Houston, Texas .
For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King" Louis Marx — as Fortune magazine dubbed him in 1946 — was the largest toy ...
TV Guide cover archive website: 1950s; TV Guide: Fifty Years of Television, New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1-4000-4685-8; Stephen Hofer, ed., TV Guide: The Official Collectors Guide, Braintree, Mass.: BangZoom Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0-9772927-1-1. "50 Greatest TV Guide Covers," article from the June 15, 2002 edition of TV Guide