[mythtv-users] Network execs added 1 minute to program length

[Billy Macdonald]

On 9/30/07, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 06:45:08PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > On 9/30/07, Gary Elder <gelder4 at cox.net> wrote:
> > >
> The solution is to tell Myth to do this then. :)
>
> Set a hard "start early" of -1 on E.R.  Set a global pre-roll of
> 1 minute.
>
> When Grey's Anatomy is scheduled to end late at 9:01, then the scheduler
> will ignore the global pre-roll and will start E.R. at 9:01 as scheduled.
>
> When Grey's Anatomy is scheduled to end at 9:00 on the dot, then the
> scheduler will give E.R. the 1 minute global pre-roll and you won't
> miss the start of E.R.
>
> --
> Chris

Until they schedule Grey's Anatomy to run two minutes long.

The networks have been doing this for a couple years now trying to
mess with us.  My wife tends to check a couple times a week for
conflicts in the upcoming week just to make sure they didn't pull off
something screwy again.