1) The channel name on the left side of the grid used to be clickable to instantly see a list of all shows on that day on that channel from morning to night, with a drop-down menu of dates a week in advance to quickly look through that particular channel for upcoming shows. No click, no more.

2) The search box actually used to WORK. You’d see any shows with a certain word, actor or show/movie title scheduled to air in the next 14 days, with channel, time and date – sorted either by date or relevance. Each was clickable for more info. Now, it gives you a vague huge assortment of crapola. Such as, figure skating. Instead of seeing what is on in the next 2 weeks, there’s a plethora of tons of shows and movies which aired several years ago and there’s no sorting through to actually see… I don’t know… upcoming listings?

3) Going to the actual Yahoo TV page to see the entire grid and try to find sense there is even worse, because even on a fast computer it takes forever to load every single section with every scroll down or right. No one has that kind of patience.

This is just trash. Please someone post a good, reliable TV site with decent search features.

A couple of years ago, Direct TV took their NFL Sunday Ticket page and made it totally useless. It was so small you could not see it…but it looked cool.

I think this is a good example of all the bad engineering and product decisions made at Yahoo.

who makes the decision to turn these things live? my god, the new tv listings are terrible. the old one was not fancy…and by all means go ahead and have an intern or two spruce it up, but the new tv listing page is an abomination. it’s like someone looked at the old one and said, “yeah it works, but it’s just not ajax’ey enough”.

most of the time it doesn’t even load, even on broadband…and when it does it’s slow, doesn’t seem to know my local time and toggling through multiple times is just too much to bare.

They should have floated some design concepts out to the blogosphere first to get feedback from potential users.

We are going through this exact process right now and we are lettting the blog reading community have total input as to how we design our site, everything from colors, to layout to icons. User feedback is critical and the best time to incorporate feedback is DURING the design process and not AFTER it is complete. They have had some great ideas that our team never considered and the end result is a page design that will be much more pleasant and effective for users.

Cheers.

Rodney Rumford
MojoPages.com

In your opening paragraph, the link to “bloggers” is broken.

Regarding: “Certain bloggers have expressed their displeasure with the makeover. I think it looks good but certainly could be more functional.”

Why did Yahoo have to throw us to the wolves of Madison Avenue, because I guarantee you the placement of all those pretty publicity shots are there at no cost.

Yahoo ruined the stock message boards too a few months ago.

What the hell is wrong with those people????

I think they must be feeling a little foolish with nobody coming to that site anymore, but not foolish enough to switch back, I’ll bet.

I’d love to buy their old system – anybody wanna go partners?