I don't like it either, but they really didn't have much choice.  When cable blew up, there were simply too many stations for TV Guide to cram into the listings.  The last time I bought a TV Guide -- years ago -- it was already almost indecipherable because of all the stations.

When I was a kid (and even when I was no longer a kid) I would read the TV Guide listings with pen in hand to mark each and every monster movie in the grid, even those on the stations we didn't receive. Two memories in particular have always stuck with me.  One was the week when there was only ONE genre film in the listings for the whole week.  It was BACK FROM THE DEAD and it was on a station that we didn't get.  Terrible week.

The other memory is a very good one.  I had worked my way through the whole week, and there was nothing really interesting --as happened most weeks actually -- finally I got to Friday afternoon -- nothing, Friday evening -- nothing.  I turned to the very last page and there at the bottom on the Late Show -- almost the very last thing listed for the whole week-- was KING KONG.  My first chance to see it.  I actually think I screamed like a leetle gurrrll, and ran around like a lunatic.  Of course, I didn't know anyone who would be remotely as excited about it as I was.  I even remember the very date -- June 23, 1961.  It's burned into my memory.