User:TVMaven

I call myself TVMaven, since my personal and professional focus over the last 2 years has been an issue people face daily while trying to find their favorite Television shows or just any TV show they would enjoy watching in their spare time.

My most recent decade-long professional background in searching for specific items of information in large collections of important corporate data caused me to wonder why there is not a popular and powerful search tool for Television.

It seems that most of us watch Television frequently, if not daily. It appears that since TV programming spread to more than the 13 original channels of the 1950's and 1960s, most of us have been searching one way or another for a TV show to watch a few times each and every week. To satisfy that need, TV Guide has become a highly popular publication for decades. During the 1990s the number of channels and service providers has increased so much that printed listings became unwieldy.

I myself have experimented with a number of different search techniques, starting in the late 1980s by entering TV program schedules from the TV Guide into a spreadsheet and then sorting them by topics or channels for my convenience, which was a time consuming and frustrating effort. In the late 1990s I tried to use the Internet to do so, without much satisfaction.

After trying the available TV schedule websites and not liking the results, I conceived and designed a new search engine for television, TVissimo.com. The website becoming a reality was made possible by the efforts of a dedicated team of partners, supported by a highly technical development team that implemented our ideas.

Lets have an open discussion on the best way to find TV shows we like to watch, both on TV channels as well as the rapidly growing Internet channels making TV programming available for viewing and/or downloading on PCs.