From New York magazine. I mean website. Whatever:

Obsolete TV Listings Resurrected by L.A. Times

Complete, weekly TV listings guides — the kind on paper! — used to be a regular component of newspapers’ weekend editions. But then cable boxes started to carry the exact same information, without the dead trees or printing costs, and papers like the New York and L.A. Times discontinued them, while magazines like TV Guide started floundering. Now, the L.A. Times, which stopped printing its “TV Times” back in April 2007, will start it up again, because … well, just because! (Or, as an L.A. Times VP puts it, because: “Our [elderly] readers tell us they want a weekly TV book that covers around-the-clock programming.”) Now Los Angeles–area residents can get exactly the same information they have on their televisions by purchasing the L.A. Times at a newsstand, or paying an extra $2.99 per month to have it delivered to their homes. Then they can read it and see it on their TV screens at exactly the same time. [Wrap via Awl]

The number of people fascinated by the decline of the newspaper industry is enormous, and [Editor & Publisher] did a great job keeping them interested. But the number of people who can pay for the publication and depress themselves by reading about their industry, well, that’s a shrinking population.

Former Merrill Lynch media analyst Lauren Fine Rich on the shuttering of Editor & Publisher magazine (via Geraldine Baum in the LA Times).

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OBSOLETE CONTEST SUBMISSION DAY 2: Calling for the time and weather

Brooklynite Pat Cassidy Mollach remembers that “When I was young we used to call on the home phone to get the Time and Temperature Lady…”

A few years ago, AT&T put the kabosh on this service. The LA Times had a nice eulogy, which can be seen here.

(Click her for contest information)