Gist is currently deploying innovative customizable Interactive Television Guide applications for business clients, offering Gist guides and interactive content for viewing over TV s, PC s, and other platforms in the United States, France and Germany. Gist also provides onscreen TV listings and related content to 18 cable systems through Worldgate set-top boxes. Having mastered and exploited the online opportunity, Gist today is focused on developing and deploying innovative new onscreen guides and content to serve the growing business market for Interactive Television Guides. Gist integrates programming information covering the entire country, encompassing more than 41,000 U.S. zip codes and 11,000 cable systems, plus all major satellite services through secure relationships with market leaders Tribune Media Services and Nielsen Media Research. Gist's editorial staff, the most experienced of any online entertainment service, presents daily in-depth coverage of what's worth viewing on TV and the Internet, providing original features, interviews and viewing recommendations.
Gist enables broadcast and cable networks and affiliates to further enhance TV listings.
Using Gist's proprietary NetWorks' Tools software, cable and broadcast networks can make scheduling changes, enhance program summaries and add hot links to chats, bulletin boards, special contests, or other promotional areas. The enhanced descriptions and promotional links appear on the TV schedule information grids across Gist's network of TV-listings guides. TV Listings Gist proprietary software enables users to create and search free TV listings by day, time, program category or specific channel. The listings can be easily searched, and viewed up to six days in advance in either a traditional grid or scroll-down list format. Gist TV remembers users' local stations and cable systems each time they log on.