Saturday, May 19, 2007
Television Wiki and Programming Grids
Having created my own website for primetime grids back to the beginning of U.S. TV in 1946, mostly out of desperation that nothing online served as a historical reference, I was surprised last week to stumble upon a wiki (meaning anyone can edit it) for television, including a great source of programming grids.
The site is http://www.tviv.org/ and it links each show to program descriptions that are either supplied (or waiting for YOU to supply). Everyone knows about Wikipedia, but this site is just for TV scheduling, which puts it close to my heart.
I like these grids at http://tviv.org/Category:Grids because the fall and spring seasons are treated separately, whereas others (including me) have tried to put everything into one grid. You can view my grids at http://www.cofc.edu/~ferguson/bcp/scheds.htm -- where the sole benefit over the vastly superior tviv.org grids is that mine are in a single spreadsheet that uses tabs at the bottom of the screen to navigate the years.
Someone has even done historic grids of Saturday morning shows, which serves to remind the older users that cartoons once lived in a network ghetto instead on cable networks.
The site is http://www.tviv.org/ and it links each show to program descriptions that are either supplied (or waiting for YOU to supply). Everyone knows about Wikipedia, but this site is just for TV scheduling, which puts it close to my heart.
I like these grids at http://tviv.org/Category:Grids because the fall and spring seasons are treated separately, whereas others (including me) have tried to put everything into one grid. You can view my grids at http://www.cofc.edu/~ferguson/bcp/scheds.htm -- where the sole benefit over the vastly superior tviv.org grids is that mine are in a single spreadsheet that uses tabs at the bottom of the screen to navigate the years.
Someone has even done historic grids of Saturday morning shows, which serves to remind the older users that cartoons once lived in a network ghetto instead on cable networks.
