Gemstar-TV Guide

Gemstar-TV Guide International is a friend to couch potatoes everywhere. The company is best known for TV Guide magazine, the weekly Bible of television viewers around the country produced through publishing unit TV Guide. The company's Media Networks division provides TV listings to cable subscribers through the TV Guide Network, and listings on the Web through tvguide.com. Its Guidance Technology and Solutions operations make the technology that allows users to use TV listings to program their TVs or digital video recorders (DVRs), and licenses technologies and services related to interactive program guides (IPGs). The company was acquired by Macrovision Solutions in 2008 for some $2.8 billion.