[mythtv-users] US Open Tennis - Dynamic Scheduling Request

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:51 AM, spectro <spectro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
>>
>> It is not all that uncommon for shows like 60 Minutes to run late due to
>> some sports event or worse miss the end of a good tennis match which ran
>> beyond the scheduled time. What was it 2 days ago I missed the end of a
>> Nadal match and in the early rounds missed the end of a Federor match.
>> Today 60 Minutes is 20-25 minutes late and the entire episode will be
>> broadcast and if I don't manually extend the time I will miss 20-25 minutes
>> of the program.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chuck
>>
>
> I found out 60 minutes always starts late in football season so my
> schedule for it extends for an extra hour. Actually is more like
> football games always last 15-30 mins longer than what tv stations
> schedule.
>
> Live events can be unpredictable, all my live sports recordings have
> at least 60 mins extra time and in the case of this weekend I just
> stayed on top of the ball changing/adding to the schedule and I didn't
> miss a point from the US Open. Not optimal solution but it didn't take
> that much time (about 10 mins every day)
>
> Maybe we could use something like twitter to push/pull last minute
> schedule updates.... hmmm

I see an xkcd cartoon .... LOL