TV Guide Canada to become web-only publication

Last Updated: Friday, October 20, 2006 | 5:12 PM ET

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After 30 years on supermarket magazine racks, TV Guide Canada is ending its print edition and will become a web publication.

The Nov. 25 issue of the magazine will be the last edition printed. The publication's new format will launch on TV Guide Canada's website on Nov. 28, according to the magazine's publisher, Transcontinental Media.

"As the listings landscape is changing, TV Guide is evolving along with it," Natalie Larivière, president of Transcontinental Media, said in a statement Thursday.

"Going with a web-only product is a fitting format for the time-sensitive and frequently changing nature of the content this publication provides," she said.

The free site will generate its revenue from advertising and from selling listings to other publications, a spokesman with Transcontinental said.

Latest publication to abandon print

Subscribers of the publication will receive details of what the move means for them in a mailing the week of Oct. 30, TV Guide Canada's site said Thursday.

The magazine had an audited circulation of 244,000 as of June 30.

In 2004, the publication's print edition underwent a major overhaul, going to a glossier, more celebrity-oriented format.

TV Guide Canada is the latest publication to abandon its print edition in favour of an online version, joining CanWest's free youth-oriented newspaper Dose and the U.S. magazine Teen People.