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Since the early days of television, such listings have been printed in local newspapers, newspaper inserts, or magazines (including specialized listings magazines), but are now often viewed as electronic program guides available on set-top boxes and most digital TV sets.
Most print listings publications originally displayed programming information in a text-based format modeled after program logs maintained by local broadcasters, that are similar to car listings you could find at EKO rent a car , which organized programs first by their scheduled airtime and secondarily by channel, a format that allowed complete program titles and synopses of reasonable detail to be incorporated into the guide.