Pass is skipping 10PM Local News on Saturdays

The Pass for local news (on KSDK 5) at 10:00PM skips Saturdays. Sunday through Friday is recorded but only Saturday is skipped. Changing the Pass schedule from New to All fixes the problem. It's fine as a workaround but I didn't intend to record the rebroadcast of the news at 2.5 hours later. I only keep the last 3 recordings (6 including the rebroadcasts) so it's just annoyance at this point.
This is KSDK Channel 5 in St. Louis.

You have found out the hard way that you can't rely on the NEW tag. :wink: So it's a good thing you removed it. Now need to deal with reruns.

Open your pass in advanced mode on the server web UI, and add this condition:

Time CONTAINS 10pm

That should do it. :slightly_smiling_face:

It should look similar to this (minus the "Wednesday"):

@mjitkop suggestion above should work well.

Additionally the cause is Gracenote is not showing the Saturday episode as β€œNew”.

You can report this to zap2it to hopefully change it in Gracenote. Zap2it Link

I would also suggest emailing the station directly and explain the episode is not labeled correctly causing your dvr to miss the episode.

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If the repeat broadcast has the same episode ID as the original, it should not record the repeat.

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The repeat broadcast gets recorded but only because I changed the Pass to "All Episodes". That's just a workaround for Saturday's broadcast not labelled as "New" by Gracenote. Please see Rice's reply.

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That's a good point but I don't think news programs have episode IDs.

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This would give you the 10:00 PM airings Sunday - Saturday

The daily 10pm airings are SeriesID 15200376

Thanks, chDVRuser,
I am confirming this works (Advanced Pass with conditions) and is marked as the Solution.

For people jumping in the middle of this thread, here's a reference.

Advanced Passes: Multiple CONTAINS/EXCLUDES (prerelease)