Meet the President
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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, growing 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 listing booklets.
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. Stark became President and CEO and quickly realized the limitations of TV listing booklets, so 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 listing 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 1,900 properties consisting of over 285,000 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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