Meet the President
Christopher S. Stark, Sr.
President / C.E.O.
Christopher S. Stark, Sr. is President and CEO of E-Guide Services, Inc. (EGS) and FYI Television, Inc. (FYI). With over 40 years of experience in the TV listings industry, Stark has been instrumental in
setting the stage for real-time and accurate TV listings. He has applied his knowledge and expertise in TV listings, developing both EGS and FYI into nationally recognized companies. Stark began his career
in 1968 in a traditional printing operation that designed, produced and distributed newspaper and franchised TV listings booklets.
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From there, Stark joined New York-based Cosmo Graphics as the General
Manager of their Dallas operation, where he oversaw the production of over 400 weekly TV booklets. After Stark became President and CEO he quickly realized the limitations of TV listing booklets and in 1984
formed a subsidiary company, TV Listings Group Inc., to design, develop and write custom software for computer database television listings. This successful method helped Cosmo Graphics expand to over
60 monthly cable magazines and 900 weekly and daily newspapers.
Stark sold Cosmo Graphics and TV Listings Group to TV Host Publishing Company in 1988 in order to establish his next projects, Encore Publishing
Group, Inc. and TV Team. By 1995, Stark merged both companies and partnered them with JD Publishing to form ONTV, Inc. Stark oversaw the production of JD Publishing's 90 customized monthly cable guides.
JD Publishing and ONTV officially merged to form JDTV and Stark was named Executive Vice President of TV Information Services and Operations. During this time, cable operators introduced their new "set-top
boxes."
Seeing an opportunity to revolutionize the TV listings industry, Stark left JDTV in 1999 and started FYI. FYI currently boasts an international client database, editing over 8,500 cable and satellite
TV networks daily for companies including Microsoft, AT&T, and Verizon. Today's cable TV, satellite TV, daily and weekly newspapers, and Internet portal listings all turn to FYI for their TV listing information.
FYI designs, develops and deploys its own custom software using state-of-the-art-technology. With FYI's 500+ individual program types, categories and subcategories, it's easy to see how FYI provides the
most flexible and accurate TV listing content.
In early summer 2007, Stark was looking for an opportunity to expand FYI into new markets. After determining the competition and balancing those with the
needs of consumers, Stark saw the chance to provide TV listings content in digital formats to the hospitality, health care and education industries. Stark formed EGS and created E-GuideTV to provide
a solution. EGS is now the leading provider of high performance and fully customized television channel guides for the hospitality industry. EGS delivers accurate and up-to-date local TV listings content
alongside targeted advertising.
E-GuideTV is now contracted in more than 1,700 properties consisting of over 268,000 rooms and is growing daily. With Stark's early career as a printer and publisher, followed
by his innovative work on custom electronic database TV listings, he is seen as a pioneer in the TV listing industry. Consistently introducing innovative and successful ideas, Stark continues to work
intensely to introduce E-GuideTV nationwide.
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E-Guide Services Raises Money For Tarrant County CharitiesAugust 9, 2011Michigan State University (MSU) recently installed E-GuideTV, the popular onscreen television guide provided by E-Guide Services (EGS), into over 11,000 dorm rooms across the MSU campus. More than 16,000 MSU students living on campus now have access to real-time TV listings.. read more E-Guide Services Raises Money For Tarrant County CharitiesJune 21, 2011E-Guide Services, Inc. (EGS) sponsored two holes at the Hotel Association of Tarrant County's 23rd Annual HOSPERtality Wide-Open Golf Classic held at the Marriott Hotel & Golf Club at Champion Circle in Fort Worth, TX. Through this sponsorship, EGS sought to raise money.. read more E-GuideTV Brings DFW-Area Hotel Guests Big Game Event InfoJanuary 28, 2011
E-Guide Services, Inc. (EGS) announced today that E-GuideTV, the popular on-screen hotel television guide, will be used as an outlet to inform hotel guests in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) area of events that are taking place leading up to and in conjunction with the February 6 big game in Arlington
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