Electronic program guide: Difference between revisions

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In June 1988, {{Cite patent|US|4751578}} was awarded to Eli Reiter, Michael H. Zemering and Frank Shannon. This patent concerned the implementation of a searchable electronic program guide – an interactive program guide (IPG).

TV Guide Magazine and Liberty Media established a joint venture in 1992 known as TV Guide On Screen to develop an EPG. The JV was led by video game veteran, Bruce Davis.<ref>On-Screen Guides: The Vanguard of Interactive Television, Red Herring, October 1993, page32</ref> Leading competitors to TV Guide On Screen included Prevue Guide and Starsight Telecast. The joint venture introduced the first ever interactive program guide to the market in late 1995 in the General Instrument CFT2200 set top cable box from General Instrument.<ref> press release: TV Guide On Screen Preferred by 80% of Participants in Usability Study of Interactive Program Guides, May 1, 1995 </ref> Telecommunications Inc, owner of Liberty Media, acquired United Video Satellite Group, owner of Prevue Guide, in 1995. TV Guide On Screen and Prevue Guide were later merged. TV Guide On Screen for digital cable set top boxes premiered in the DigiCable series of set top boxes from General Instrument shortly thereafter. See wiki on TV Guide for subsequent developments. <ref> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Guide </ref>

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