[mythtv-users] Let's get our heads straight here on listings solutions

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Jun 22 20:25:37 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:11:06PM +0200, Mattias Holmlund wrote:
> > Someone suggested that this is very manual in the US as well.  Dot eh
> > Swedish broadcasters not use playout automation yet?
> 
> Yes they do. But that doesn't mean that they actually have
> descriptions in their playout systems or that they can export listings
> data from them. I have only come into actual contact with the playout
> system with one TV-station. They exported xml-files from their playout
> system that we could use. Great! But after a few weeks we started
> noticing that the xml-files did not contain late updates to the
> listings. It turned out that one week before the actual day air-date,
> they started adding commercials to their playout system. And at that
> time, they stopped exporting the xml-files, because otherwise the
> xml-files would contain information about the commercials. So we had
> to resort to using their MS Word files anyway, since they were the
> only listings source that was properly updated...

Live reports from the field.  Good stuff.

Not fond of the data, but the reports are good.

Clearly, filtering out the spots is important.  Insertion is handled
by the primary playout automation system these days?

Cheers,
-- jra
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