Grid Color History
On the EPG/Prevue Guide/Prevue Channel/TV Guide Channel/TV Guide Network channel, the following colors have been used for the listings grid:
- Black (during the Amiga-based EPG and Prevue Guide years prior to mid-1993)
- Navy blue (during the Amiga-based Prevue Guide, Prevue Channel, and TV Guide Channel years of 1993-2000)
- Yellow (during the TV Guide Channel years of 2000-2003)
- Blue (during the TV Guide Channel years of 2003-2004)
- Teal (during the TV Guide Channel years of 2004-2005)
- Grey (during the TV Guide Channel and TV Guide Network years of 2005–present)
Between the late 1980s and 1999, local cable operators could configure listings for certain channels to appear with alternate background colors (their choice of red or light blue). Light grey backgrounds were additionally used for channel- and program genre-based listings summaries, when enabled by local cable operators. Beginning with the yellow grid in 1999, all such coloring was discarded in favor of program genre-based coloring which affected all channels and summaries. Listings for movies featured red backgrounds, pay-per-view events bore purple backgrounds, and sporting events featured green backgrounds. Starting in 2004, light blue backgrounds were additionally applied to listings for children's programming.
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