Bring back Zap2it for TV listings and entertainment updates
Bring back Zap2it for TV listings and entertainment updates
The Issue
Zap2it was a website and digital media company that provided television program listings information for areas of the United States and Canada. Founded in 2000 by Tribune Media Services, the site has been owned by Nexstar Media Group since 2019. Zap2it also syndicated its listings data to a number of broadcasting and multimedia companies (such as Disney and Sinclair Broadcast Group), pay television providers (such as Wave Broadband, Cox and Dish Network) and publications (such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post) for use online and in interactive programming guides. Tribune Media began shutting down the editorial content on the website in 2017, and by 2020, only the TV listings section remained. Around March 25, 2025, Zap2it was taken offline permanently.
History: Tribune Media Services first began to offer online listings services as a content provider to the online services Prodigy in the late 1980s and America Online in the early 1990s. TMS launched its first branded online television listings service, TV Quest, in 1993 on the AppleLink online service. TV Quest later migrated to Apple's eWorld services and to the internet in the mid-1990s.
The Zap2it website debuted in May 2000. In its earliest iteration, the site was a combination of TMS-owned listings sites TVQuest and MovieQuest plus the then-recently purchased content site UltimateTV.
UltimateTV offered viewers and industry insiders breaking news, Nielsen ratings, live celebrity chats and more. The site provided video clips, interviews and promos in its Promo Lounge area.
The earliest Zap2it focused on movies, TV and original web-based content. The site offered original editorials along with listings information for movies, television and online. It also listed online content such as short films, interactive games and webisodes offered by Atom Films, Shockwave.com and iFilm.
Zap2it's television listings and movie showtimes were generated by TMS data, with web listings by Yack data.
The site's editorial pages, including the front page, were redesigned in 2001. In early 2003, the editorial focus of Zap2it was narrowed to television and movie, and the site was again redesigned. An agreement with Fandango in 2005 allowed for the introduction of online movie ticketing for select theaters. Blogs, including It Happened Last Night, which offered show recaps, were first launched in 2006 and expanded thereafter. In 2007, the site launched "click-to-record" functionality allowing users with TiVo digital video recorders to remotely schedule recordings directly from within the Zap2it television listings. TVOvermind (est. 2008) was a blog dedicated to episodic recaps. It was purchased by BC Media Group in 2012.
On October 3, 2016, the site was rebranded as Screener.
In April 2017, Tribune Media announced the end of editorial content on Screener. By January 2018, only the TV listings and TV by the Numbers sections remained, and the website reverted to the name Zap2it. TV by the Numbers ceased operations at the end of January 2020.
In March 2025, Zap2it's owner Nexstar Media Group abruptly took the website offline. The domain name for Zap2it began redirecting to the schedule page for NewsNation, a cable television network owned by Nexstar. However, the same TV schedule grids that had been on Zap2it could still be found under Gracenote's domain name via users' Zap2it logins.
As of now, people are disappointing that they want not only Tribune Content Agency and Nexstar Media Group but also TV Guide, On TV Tonight and TV Passport, as well as broadcasting and multimedia companies, TV providers and publications to bring back Zap2it as TV, entertainment news and movie showtimes website. Zap2it let's users check on what's on today, tonight or tomorrow via TV listings, it also let's users to view entertainment news and view movie showtimes on how to get tickets.
Sign the petition to bring back Zap2it now as a TV listings, entertainment news and movie showtimes website. #BringBackZap2it #Zap2it #TVListings #EntertainmentNews #MovieShowtimes #WeWanttoBringBackZap2it
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The Issue
Zap2it was a website and digital media company that provided television program listings information for areas of the United States and Canada. Founded in 2000 by Tribune Media Services, the site has been owned by Nexstar Media Group since 2019. Zap2it also syndicated its listings data to a number of broadcasting and multimedia companies (such as Disney and Sinclair Broadcast Group), pay television providers (such as Wave Broadband, Cox and Dish Network) and publications (such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post) for use online and in interactive programming guides. Tribune Media began shutting down the editorial content on the website in 2017, and by 2020, only the TV listings section remained. Around March 25, 2025, Zap2it was taken offline permanently.
History: Tribune Media Services first began to offer online listings services as a content provider to the online services Prodigy in the late 1980s and America Online in the early 1990s. TMS launched its first branded online television listings service, TV Quest, in 1993 on the AppleLink online service. TV Quest later migrated to Apple's eWorld services and to the internet in the mid-1990s.
The Zap2it website debuted in May 2000. In its earliest iteration, the site was a combination of TMS-owned listings sites TVQuest and MovieQuest plus the then-recently purchased content site UltimateTV.
UltimateTV offered viewers and industry insiders breaking news, Nielsen ratings, live celebrity chats and more. The site provided video clips, interviews and promos in its Promo Lounge area.
The earliest Zap2it focused on movies, TV and original web-based content. The site offered original editorials along with listings information for movies, television and online. It also listed online content such as short films, interactive games and webisodes offered by Atom Films, Shockwave.com and iFilm.
Zap2it's television listings and movie showtimes were generated by TMS data, with web listings by Yack data.
The site's editorial pages, including the front page, were redesigned in 2001. In early 2003, the editorial focus of Zap2it was narrowed to television and movie, and the site was again redesigned. An agreement with Fandango in 2005 allowed for the introduction of online movie ticketing for select theaters. Blogs, including It Happened Last Night, which offered show recaps, were first launched in 2006 and expanded thereafter. In 2007, the site launched "click-to-record" functionality allowing users with TiVo digital video recorders to remotely schedule recordings directly from within the Zap2it television listings. TVOvermind (est. 2008) was a blog dedicated to episodic recaps. It was purchased by BC Media Group in 2012.
On October 3, 2016, the site was rebranded as Screener.
In April 2017, Tribune Media announced the end of editorial content on Screener. By January 2018, only the TV listings and TV by the Numbers sections remained, and the website reverted to the name Zap2it. TV by the Numbers ceased operations at the end of January 2020.
In March 2025, Zap2it's owner Nexstar Media Group abruptly took the website offline. The domain name for Zap2it began redirecting to the schedule page for NewsNation, a cable television network owned by Nexstar. However, the same TV schedule grids that had been on Zap2it could still be found under Gracenote's domain name via users' Zap2it logins.
As of now, people are disappointing that they want not only Tribune Content Agency and Nexstar Media Group but also TV Guide, On TV Tonight and TV Passport, as well as broadcasting and multimedia companies, TV providers and publications to bring back Zap2it as TV, entertainment news and movie showtimes website. Zap2it let's users check on what's on today, tonight or tomorrow via TV listings, it also let's users to view entertainment news and view movie showtimes on how to get tickets.
Sign the petition to bring back Zap2it now as a TV listings, entertainment news and movie showtimes website. #BringBackZap2it #Zap2it #TVListings #EntertainmentNews #MovieShowtimes #WeWanttoBringBackZap2it
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Petition created on February 25, 2026