[mythtvnz] SKY EPG and BBC World

Tony Sauri hoiho.nz at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 02:06:05 GMT 2009


I have discovered that the Sky EPG is 24 hours behind the actual broadcasts of 
BBC World.

eg The Sky EPG showed that "Life on the Edge - Silk Ceiling Part 2" was 
scheduled at 12:30am on Tues 8th Dec.  I hope you didn't try to record it as 
it actually went to air at 12:30 am on Mon 7th Dec.

I don't know how long this situation has existed but it seems only the last 
few days.  Unfortunatly the error occured about the same time Hads slipped 
the recent changes into the xmltv system he maintains and to my shame I 
started pointing my finger in his direction.

The Guide on the Sky website is also 24 hours behind as are other websites 
such as the Yahoo!xtra tv guide.  SO it seems that in this part of the world 
several guide publishers rely on the Sky data.

This morning I rang Sky  Customer service who are looking into it by sending 
an email to someone so hopefully all you BBC junkies out there will be able 
to record your correct programs again sometime soon.

In the meantime this url will get you the correct guide data for BBC World.
	
http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/SchedulesByFormats.aspx?TimeZone=348&StartDate=07/12/2009&EndDate=13/12/2009&Format=Print

This is a long url and may fold in some email clients.

Regards

Tony



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