Prevue Channel

Prevue Channel

Beginning in late March 1993, Prevue Networks overhauled the Prevue Guide software, this time to modernize its appearance. Still operating on the same Amiga 2000 hardware, the old grid's black background with white text separated by colored lines gave way to a new, embossed-looking navy blue grid featuring 90 minutes of scheduling information for each channel. Triangular arrow symbols were added to listings of programs whose start or end times stretched beyond that timeframe (a single arrow indicating programs that started or concluded within the half-hour, and a double arrow denoting programs persisting at least 35 minutes earlier or later than the visible grid timeframe), and for viewer convenience, local cable operators could now configure the grid's scrolling action to momentarily pause for up to four seconds after each screenful of listings. Additionally, local cable operators could enable light grey sports and movie summaries within the grid. Appearing between each listings cycle, these showed all films and sporting events airing on any channel during the next 90 minutes.