Paul Greenberg (image, left) is leaving his job as EVP/GM at TV Guide Online to become digital president of Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s Lifestyle Group. He’ll start in mid-March and report to Lifestyle Group President Steve Sachs. Time Inc. formed the Lifestyle Group about a year and a half ago…

More trouble and reorg continues at TV Guide Network: Ryan O’Hara, president of TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com is leaving to take a new position in New York, co-parents Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and investor One Equity Partners announced today. O’Hara, who had been at TVG for eight years, already has…

A second big pick up for the TV Guide Network. Along with MTV’s TV Land, it’s buying the basic cable and some broadband, wireless and VOD rights to HBO’s hit comedy show Curb Your Enthusiasm. In a statement, TV Guide Network president Ryan O’Hara says the show—which will start airing…

BusinessWeek employees, read this carefully. Could be your potential future owner. TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE Firm OpenGate Capital (one of the four shortlist bidders for BW), laid off Pete Haeffner, TV Guide publisher since October 2005, along with four other colleagues, reports Minonline. Others leaving are publisher/sales…

An interesting announcement from TV Guide Network as it continues the push to be seen as an entertainment destination. In its first major move since being acquired by Lionsgate and One Equity Partners, Multichannel News reports the network has acquired the exclusive basic-cable syndication rights to ABC’s Ugly Betty. The…

In a surprise move, TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE firm OpenGate Capital, has appointed former Hachette CEO and magazine industry vet Jack Kliger as the interim CEO and senior adviser to the company. This comes as the troubled mag tries to revive itself and the format. This fills…

That was quick, and brings back things full circle, sort of: Lionsgate Entertainment has sold off 49 percent stake in TV Guide network and the online properties to One Equity, for about $123 million. This comes only three months after it outbid One Equity, the PE arm of J.P. Morgan…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) posted a $209.9 million ($2.06 per share) GAAP net loss in Q4versus $9.2 million in profits the year before. That loss is tied to $208.3 million in impairment charges related to the goodwill and intangible assets of TV Guide Network, TVG Network and TV Guide Online, all…

The TV Guide saga continues ... Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has done an about-face and found a very interesting new buyer for its TV Guide Network and TV Guide Online properties—Lionsgate Entertainment (LGE). The TV production firm and movie studio is slated to buy the properties from Macrovision for $255 million,…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) is almost done with most of its dispositions, and after selling off its TV Guide magazine for $1 to OpenGate Capital, is getting considerably more for the namesake TV network and the online part: it has sold off TV Guide Network to Allen Shapiro and One Equity…

TV Guide, the print magazine now under the ownership of LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital, plans to launch a new website (at TVGuidemagazine.com which it owns) to accompany the mag. The only problem is that TVGuide.com exists, and was not sold by Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) as part of the…

Wow, we knew Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) was desperate to get rid of the print version of TV Guide, but didn’t know the extent to which it would go to the liabilities off its books: we reported earlier this week that it was sold to PE firm OpenGate Capital..now the price…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally found a buyer for TV Guide magazine, and it not one of the usual suspects: it has divested the magazine only (NOT online) to LA-based private equity firm OpenGate Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is sure to come out in…

Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally put the book out for the formal sale of TV Guide Network, according to Variety. The channel includes its flagship TV scrolling IPG, distributed in about 80 million homes in U.S., and the much-smaller TVG Horse Race Network, and the story says could fetch a…

As we first reported, Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) is indeed looking to sell TVGuide the magazine sans its online home, TVGuide.com. Said CFO James Budge: “We expect the online properties to continue their steady historical growth and planned for a minimum of 10 percent revenue gains for the next few years.”…