BBC World News and BBC World News America Guide Parsing

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

There seems to be a bug in the guide data or the way it's parsed for BBC World News and BBC World News America only from the local San Diego PBS station.

If the pass is set for NEW BBC recordings then no programs are actually scheduled, but switching to ALL will put them on the schedule, even though only new ones are being broadcast.

Maybe it has something to do with the way Europeans express dates in day-month-year form in instead of month-day-year like in the States?

It's a minor bug, but it caught me by surprise and so missed some shows.

Thanks,

-- R Carlson MD

#2

It could also be that on the west coast we often get the later 2nd broadcast of those programs, rather than the live broadcast.

(For instance, I believe BBC World News usually airs at 5pm, which is 2pm on the west coast. So the 5pm broadcast out here isn't technically "new".)

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