TV Guide
TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes. The print magazine is owned by NTVB Media, while its digital properties are controlled by the CBS Interactive division of CBS Corporation; the "TV Guide" name and associated editorial content from the publication are licensed by CBS Interactive for use on the website and mobile app through an agreement with the magazine's parent subsidiary TVGM Holdings, Inc.
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In the winter of early 1953, Wagner sold "The TeleVision Guide" to Philadelphia-based newspaper and magazine publisher Walter Annenberg, who folded the magazine into his multimedia company Triangle Publications. (Wagner would serve as a consultant for its successor national magazine until 1963.) Triangle concurrently purchased numerous regional television listing publications including "TV Forecast", "TV Digest" and the "Local Televiser", intending to develop a national television magazine. Wagner's publication served as the prototype for "TV Guide" (originally adopted as the renaming of the New York-based "TeleVision Guide" on March 18, 1950), which Triangle first released as a national publication on April 3 of that year, with a cover story about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's newborn son Desi Arnaz, Jr., who was referred to under the headline: "Lucy's $50,000,000 baby". 1.56 million copies of the digest-sized first issue were sold across ten U.S. cities.