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.
Guide (software company)
Guide allows users to choose from three different virtual news anchors in the base application, and the company has stated it will offer additional avatars and newsroom backgrounds for purchase. An alpha version of the app, for iPad only, was privately released on February 8, 2013.
Freddie Laker, former vice president of strategy at Sapient Nitro and founder of digital agency iChameleon Group, developed the idea for Guide in 2011 after he noticed the rising trend in Smart TVs and Smart TV content at that year's CES. He observed that the apps for Smart TV did not provide content in a TV-friendly format and decided to create an app that would provide a "TV experience". In January 2013, Laker was joined at the company by chief operating officer Leslie Bradshaw. The company is based in Miami, Florida, and has seven employees .