• February 3, 2003

Gemstar-TV Guide has tapped former Men’s Health editor Michael Lafavore to whip its listings title back into shape. His number one task will be to stop TV Guide’s circulation decline, which saw its total paid circulation fall 3.7% in the first half of 2002 to 9.07 million, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, which says its newsstand sales fell 21.5% in the same period. Ad pages declined 11% in 2002 according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Former editor Steven Reddicliffe exited last November after seven years at TV Guide. Lafavore most recently launched Dennis Publishing’s The Week, and has been consulting a number of other publishing companies. He will be based in New York and will report to TV Guide Publishing Group president John Loughlin.