Do newspaper TV listings have subchannels?

[gregg75]

Atlanta has better subs than most of those which should be listed.
THIS-TV, Bounce and WATCTOO 57.2 come to mind.

I'm not sure if the daily paper has a TV listing. We do get a Sunday weekly newspaper guide on
about 6 pages (without subs) plus cable, but you just about need a magnifying glass to read
it.

I like the TV Weekly and thought about getting it but it's about $1 per week. Instead I get the
national TV Guide which is deep discounted to about 25 cents per issue.

[Mario500]

The Mobile Press-Register in Mobile, Alabama does not publish sub-channel programming for local TV stations. In recent times, they have published evening TV listings in daily newspapers and sent TV listings for other times of the day to newspaper subscribers with electronic mail addresses. They publish a local TV guide booklet every Friday called "TV Preview" with programming for all times of the day scheduled from the Friday of its publication to the following Thursday.

[Scott Fybush]

I haven't subscribed to the local paper up here in Rochester in a few years, but I still see it from time to time. Its listing grid on weekdays includes the subchannels with scheduled programming - World and Create on WXXI 21.2/21.3 and CW on WHAM 13.2 (which was a cable channel before it was an OTA DTV sub, and has been listed for years). They haven't yet added Bounce (WROC 8.2) or MeTV (WHEC 10.2), which just launched here within the last month or so, nor do they list CoolTV (WUHF 31.2). They also list an LPTV, WBGT 40, which is the local MyNetwork affiliate.

[bmasters1981]

the print papers are not useless.just some that keep cutting back instead of making them more interesting to compete with other media.

I realize we were somewhat tongue-in-cheek but I have the following observations about my local daily:

1.  The news is late by at least one day and frequently up to several days.  All depends on the amount of space they've allocated to each page.

2.  The paper is nasty getting newsprint all over fabric, hands and everything you touch.

3.  Major sections of the paper are useless to me (lifestyle, finance (I have people), obits, comics (such as they are), classifieds and most features).  I just want news.....not all the other BS.

4.  The news is cluttered with ads.  Frequently the page is filled with ads and only one small news story.

5.  If I'm not home the newspaper sitting in the driveway is an open ad that nobody is home.

6.  I have to trek it out to the recycle can after I'm done reading it.

7.  Somewhere, I killed a tree.   

Two things I don't like about mine since Gannett took it over as they did others: it's wafer-thin on weekdays and Saturdays, and most of the sports section is very inane AP stories; no real writing to speak of.

[OhioMediaWatch]

From my answer in another thread:

I've seen a couple of newspapers list subchannels. I believe the Youngstown Vindicator has them on their TV grid...possibly sparked by the fact that the Vindicator owns WFMJ/21 and "WBCB", the CW affiliate on 21.2...

The Cleveland Plain Dealer doesn't have any subchannels in its grid, but does list W35AX/35, the RTV affiliate that's the Cleveland side of WAOH-LP/29 Akron.

Last I checked, the Akron Beacon Journal doesn't do subchannels in its grids or listings.

(Like Scott in Rochester, I don't get the dead trees edition of any of the local papers.)

[ShawnHill1]

I know the Washington Post carries listings of many of the local subchannels in that region, in both the daily listings and the weekly TV guide.

I can't speak for the other local dailies here in Southern California, but the L.A. Times just only offers listings for the main stations and popular cable networks (7pm to midnight only).  I haven't seen a hard copy of the Times' weekly TV guide in a number of years, and the current edition is subscription only.