Looking for the best way to handle this with the least number of drawbacks.
Recently, my local Hearst NBC affiliate also became the CBS affiliate. NBC has always been on 4.1, and now CBS is 4.3. The local station is "simulcasting" the local 11 PM news on both 4.1 and 4.3. There are shows with the same title on the schedule for both. Most of the time, they are truly simulcasting the show and both channels are showing the same content at the same time. However, some of the time, when one of the networks is running late... like last night... there is a difference. CBS was running about 15 minutes behind the published schedule. As best I can tell, the 4.1 channel started running live news at 11:00 PM. At 11:00 4.3 was finishing up the "nominially" 10:00 PM show. At 11;15, 4.3 started running a local news program, flagged "perviously recorded" with an onscreen clock at approximately 10:00 pm. Meaning, when we tried to start watching the news at about 11:10 PM, the recording was showing the end of the program and we needed to act to get the remainder of that news program. Or, just watch the local news from 7.1 (that we also record).
Both 4.1 and 4.3 are favorite channels. 4.3 is higher than 4.1. So... 4.3 got recorded, 4.1 did not. However, in this case, I would have preferred 4.1 to be recorded. I could achieve that by locking the Series Pass to 4.1. But then I wouldn't have the advantage of recording the live news on 4.3 when it has it. I cannot record both, it appears, it looks like the same program id.
It looks like there's no way to always get whichever channel is running live news at 11:00 on a Season Pass. But I thought I'd ask.