I have mixed feelings over TV Guide’s reinvention. Even though I have not read TV guide in a few years, I have to admit: I used to collect TV Guides.

It started out in the mid-‘70s when I just kept them, and then I answered an ad in Broadcasting magazine and purchased some other darned fool's collection. The collection dated back to issue No. 1, but was not complete. I drive to Maryland to buy them for a few hundred bucks, and the collector had them strewn about his house in bags and boxes. Unlike the collection of Gourmet magazines I bought a few years prior, at least these didn’t smell from mildew.

I lugged these boxes of TV Guides around the country (east to west to southwest to west to southwest) for countless moves. Honestly, I rarely dove into the boxes to relive history or sneak a peek at some precious pop culture moment. They were, until move number 30, when I honed the collection down to the “Fall Season Premiere” issues and a few assorted others, dead weight. People have asked me over the years what they are worth…I am not sure, but not very much. Occasionally, I will look on eBay to see if anyone else collects TV Guides, and generally they are few and far between.

So, who else collects these magazines? Well, there’s (fictional) Frank Costanza, who is still upset that Elaine took his copy of the TV Guide with Al Roker on the cover. If he needs a spare, I might have one.