Prevue Becomes TV Guide Channel - Feb. 1, 1999

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Here it is - the last moments of Prevue Channel and the first minute or so of TV Guide Channel. As you can see, the changeover was quite subdued and happened at the stroke of midnight. The Prevue ident aired for the last time, then John Lithgow appeared to plug his TV Guide Insider profile.Some tests of the new TV Guide imaging were in effect that last night, as you can see. The guide itself was updated the next day to replace the Prevue graphics with TV Guide ones. The initial graphics and presentation were produced by Pittard Sullivan, and were really nicely put together with a catchy theme. I prefer this warmer, but still hip, package to the somewhat dark and scary 1998 Prevue look.This has a bit of Prevue's new 1998-era format, hipper imaging, and slightly updated guide. Instead of Prevue Tonight, numerous features would appear throughout the half-hour; news and weather at 5 minutes before, sports at 15 and 45, and so on. TV Guide initially kept this format more or less, adding in celebrity profiles and entertainment news.Then the grid went yellow, hosts were added, and it all went to hell.

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PrevueGuide (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
13 years today RIP Prevue!!
woddfellow2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The local ad music in this video was recently identified as "Mania", "Visual", and "Pulse", all from Killer Tracks.
MarionetteKazuko (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Wow, this reminds me of Sega Channel, has almost the same menu music and look.
NewYorkS4U (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I had the Time Warner Version of the Prevue Channel, and in the 90s, they did a stupid ass thing of combining Country Music Television with Prevue by having it swap on the top half of the screen. How dumb can you get??? It disgusted me that this was done.
Xpk951 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what's the background music at 2:04?
cameron20101000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
so prevue channel merged into tv guide channel in that time?
ariw2003net (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I don't really agree - for example, if you look at the Prevue Channel video from 1998 that was posted to YouTube in the past few days, you will see that they showed previews in a very similar manner than they did in the mid 90s. I understand there were some changes in the newer, post-1998 format, but they still did Tonight-style things.
kstarpictures (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Insider was actually a little more like the pre-1998 segment "InterVue with Jim Ferguson," to be honest.
kstarpictures (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The idea of showing different promos had changed a bit by the switch to Prevue (which occured a little under a year prior in February 1998). They weren't showing series of promos in the manner they were in the mid 90's. I believe Prevue Family was a much more trimmed segment compared to its predecessor Family-Vue. Prevue This was a successor to "Tonight" only in that it featured primetime programming. I can't remember any exact details as its been over 12 years ago.
ariw2003net (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That doesn't sound too much like Prevue Tonight, which showed short previews for several programs that would be shown on a particular night. From what I understand, Prevue This was more like TV Guide Insider. I would say that Prevue TV was probably more of a replacement for Prevue Tonight?Thanks though!

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