[mythtv-users] Getting local-access stations into Schedules Direct

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

None of the local community-access television stations carried by my
cable feed have any listings in Schedules Direct---they're listed as
LOOR003, LOOR016, etc etc but SD has no listings for them.

A couple of them even have some interesting programming on (whether
you're interested in local politics or in refeeds of things like
certain NASA programs, etc), and have at least a week of scheduling
listed on their own websites.  But I never think to check 'em out
because, of course, it takes extra effort to go scan the sites, much
less schedule them... :)

So I've got two ways to proceed:
(a) Write a tool to scrape their sites & stuff the info into the
    same XML framework mfdb is inhaling.  Fragile but obviously
    doable if I don't mind some grody code.  (And if anyone has
    suggestions that beat a cheesy bash/perl script but doesn't
    have a silly learning curve, spill... :)
(b) Actually get them to submit their data to Tribune or whoever
    is the upstream feeder for SD---assuming they're disciplined
    enough to actually do so.

Obviously (b) is the better long-term solution, and would help
everybody in the area.  But how do I go about doing this?  Is it
documented anywhere what the procedure is to ask a station to start
submitting their data, and (the kicker) do stations have to pay any
money to anyone to do so?  I've done some searching both generally
and in the SD pages & forums and haven't seen anything directly
addressing this question.

Thanks!