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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RouDTcvNAE0 - Hi, all. New member here. Here is a brief Prevue List from my home market, Seattle-Tacoma. It's brief, but worth posting here!

Prevue Channel: July 10, 1997 Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcbugC15R8
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBM7XR_l0w

It has 3 "Prevue's TV Trivia" and 2 "InterVue with Jim Ferguson" included all shown at 2:00am!

Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Po6t5FdczM
Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0jY7c1bzsQ

Those have Paid Programming during regular after midnight hours. At the end, there's a Prevue Channel (1996): Promo featuring a montage of TV Sitcoms!

Prevue Channel and PrimeCinema PPV Previews Channel Surfing from PrimeStar: March 30, 1998:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oua01f7xQH8

Prevue Guide: April 18, 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA2NLFYfBL4

This must have been a couple days before Prevue switched to the Blue Program Grid from Commodore Amiga. Or in some cases, few Cable Systems would still used the previous EPG during April. Most services already have the grid available!

woddfellow2 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:17 am I do remember those "$CABLE_OPERATOR presents the TV Guide Channel." idents circa 2000–2001. The version seen in these videos replaced an older one with the change to the "Don't Miss a Thing" slogan.

I just found another example.

Also, here is an early 2001 yellow-grid recording from Cox Communications in or near Groton, CT (Providence, RI–New Bedford, MA stations are listed): 2001: 90+ Minutes of the TVGuide Channel (February)

[Sat Jul 03 01:41:12 PDT 2021] Update: I just found an early 2002 recording (Charter in or near Charleston, WV) with just a logo slide (o_O): TV Guide Channel (February 14, 2002)

woddfellow2 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:23 am [Sat Jul 03 01:41:12 PDT 2021] Update: I just found an early 2002 recording (Charter in or near Charleston, WV) with just a logo slide (o_O): TV Guide Channel (February 14, 2002)

Apparently that's not the only instance. I left a comment on that video not too long ago and somebody replied with their recollection of "sometimes at nights I remember seeing just a TV Guide logo, and later at night were infomercials up there ..."

Unrelated, but the logo slide also reminds me of the Hollywood (TVGC/N software) running in 'software mode', where there's just a "TV Guide" logo instead of programming. I wonder if the hardware side of things was able to handle this too? If not, could this be classified as a national technical difficulty moment?

Two few brief new finds.

1. At 1:14 in this video, you can see a brief animation for "Screen TV", which was planned to be the next generation of Sneak Prevue. Screen TV was based on the Hollywood platform but the product was ultimately cancelled in early 2000 and Sneak Prevue continued to run until it was shut down in 2002.

https://vimeo.com/37350556

2. This video includes several audio excerpts of the Prevue Channel from 1998/1999, featuring Joe Paulino, who was the voice of the Prevue Channel at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_p-oOvAaG4

Some more Prevue footages on YouTube:

Prevue Guide: April 9th, 1991 (digital camera footage):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APV5FfWDpcc

August 2, 1992:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkAQ_Kx99sY

Prevue Channel: May 15, 1995 (Very Short Clip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvN_nHTCFA

and

March 15, 1997 (Short Clip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dIf_VVqcDE

Prevue Channel: June 29th, 1996 (late-night partial clip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94eL0_C1thQ

Note: This one has a Prevue Promo contains a Montage of Family Films dated from 1994.

A recording of PrimeStar's Prevue for Movies (dated 1997-10-09):
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