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Despite the headline on the "TV Trib" inserted into today's newspaper, let me assure you, dear reader, you have NOT entered "The Twilight Zone."
Yes, today's TV Trib looks a little different than the one you've grown accustomed to, but I believe you really are going to like it.
Enlarged by nearly 70 percent from the previous smaller booklet into a newspaper tabloid size, readers will be able to review their favorite TV show listings in a larger, full-color format.
Now, let me assure you, we are very aware that change is not always easily embraced.
So, that's why we made sure to keep the same 20 pages of TV listing grids containing the most popular TV channels available to our readership. The section still is 32 pages, and it still outlines all your weekly entertainment information.
But now that every page is larger, we also are able to expand and add new content on things like streaming services, fun trivia, top 10 lists, weekly movie reviews and celebrity Q and A features.
Understanding the popularity of the puzzles we publish in the Tribune Chronicle every day, we've also added extra puzzles including crossword, word search, sudoku and even a new take on bingo.
If you haven't already fished the new "TV Trib" out from among all the weekly newspaper inserts today, this would be a very good time to do that.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the new format. Slip it onto your coffee table so you can plot out all your favorite TV programs for the entire week.
Also worth plotting for the coming week is Volume II of the annual Tribune Chronicle Almanac section that you'll find in Wednesday's newspaper. Volume I, of course, published March 6. Almanac, the annual two-part section that publishes early each year, was initiated in March 2015.
This week's 24-page broadsheet section will share an in-depth look at our economy, job training, local climate, our area's health care and even healthy eating.
Wednesday's section opens with a story by Tribune Chronicle business writer Ron Selak Jr. focusing on what's next for the Mahoning Valley economy, especially if the doors to our Lordstown General Motors complex remain closed.
Youngstown State University's economics department Chairman Tod Porter, and other experts, examine what needs to be done to improve the local economic landscape and grow business. It focuses on diversification and the importance of planning.
Other stories inside the special section examine things like the need to maintain a strong skilled labor force. It delves into the growing demand for skilled trades and talks about how to get started.
Other stories focus on things like the value of small businesses in our market and where to go for tips on creating your own startup.
The special section also looks at medical advances, new technology and other new developments at area health care providers, including Steward Health's Trumbull Regional Medical Center, Mercy Health's local facilities, Akron Children's Hospital Mahoning Valley campus and others.
The section delves into predictions from area financial institutions, and looks at physical expansions and growth in at least two of the locally operated lending institutions.
Auto dealers talk about their expectations for the future, and there is so much more.
Each year, Tribune Chronicle staff members invest dozens of hours into researching, reporting, photographing, writing and then designing and laying out this very special section. Our advertisers seek to be included, knowing that it is one of our most popular annual special sections that readers enjoy, read from cover to cover and keep (perhaps on their coffee tables, right beside the new TV Trib section).
In case you can't tell, I am very proud of this product.
I hope you will make a note to pick up the Wednesday Tribune Chronicle and that you enjoy the 2019 Almanac Volume II.