Patent ID: 8739213

Claim:
A method for providing an interactive program guide, comprising: displaying to a user a menu listing current, future, and previously-aired programming; receiving from a user, at an electronic receiver, a user command to retrieve program data for the previously-aired programming, the program data comprising information relating to the previously-aired programming, wherein the information comprises: searchable metadata configured to be used at least in part for storing and indexing the program data, social network information comprising at least one comment related to the program data generated by a social network associated with the user, and facts that were unavailable to anyone when the previously-aired programming was originally broadcast; retrieving, at a processor, the program data from a data source; customizing, at a processor, the program data for display to the user, wherein the customizing comprises displaying certain categories of program data preselected by a user on a single page without requiring further selection and optionally not displaying other categories not preselected by a user; and outputting, from an output to an electronic display device, the program data in response to receiving the user command.