[mythtv-users] Football and see schedule adjustments

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 17:00:28 UTC 2015


On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <
>> gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
>>> > Well its hardly CBS’s fault that the NFL runs long.
>>>
>>> Well, that is clearly up for debate.  There are those that
>>> believe all broadcasters should add in a few hours of
>>> padding after every live game that is not time limited
>>> and fill it with "useless commentary" (is that redundant?).
>>> However, that goes against the commercial realities that
>>> no company would pay for commercials on the "useless
>>> commentary" shows (and the broadcasters are not in
>>> this to intentionally lose money).
>>>
>>> There are also some that believe that if 60 minutes is
>>> scheduled to start at 7pm, it should start then.  And
>>> that goes against the contracts that CBS has signed
>>> with the NFL (after the Heidi game fiasco the NFL
>>> changed future broadcast contracts to require that
>>> the broadcasters show the games until the end,
>>> special circumstances excepted of course).
>>>
>>> AFAICT, the only way this works is if all sports programs
>>> move to PPV channels.  Which sort of happens now, and
>>> may expand with the realities of the prices that the sports
>>> times want to be paid.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the replies everyone.
>>
>> Just some thoughts: Colbert is being affected by CBS' Thursday Night
>> Footbal. If I created a custom recording rule for Colbert with a higher
>> priority than the regular one that added 60-90 minutes and included
>> DAYNAME(program.starttime)='Thursday' would it just record Colbert longer
>> on Thursdays?
>>
>> And for completeness and giggles: How would you adjust the SQL to only
>> work between, say, September 1st and March 1st?
>>
>>
> Scratching my head here. Created the following power search:
>
> program.title = 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' AND
> DAYNAME(CONVERT_TZ(program.starttime,'Etc/UTC','SYSTEM'))='Thursday' AND
> channel.callsign='WIVB-HD'
>
> Gave it a higher priority. Told it to record 90 minutes longer. When I
> test the recording rule, it finds the two Thursday night broadcasts. When I
> set it to record and look at upcoming recordings, the two Thursdays airings
> say they're being recorded under the standard Colbert rule. Shouldn't the
> higher priority kick in the power search one?
>


Found this older thread (
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/568342) that stated the
age of rules can play a part in scheduling. Deleted then recreated the
standard Colbert rule, making the Thursday power search older. Now works as
intended.
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