<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Additionally, Chris mentioned that his station *buys back* it's EIT<br>data source feed from Tribune, if I understood him properly.
<br><br>===<br><br>On a semi-related issue: cable.<br><br>Cable systems can cause several non-obvious problems.<br><br>Channel splitting is one that was mentioned here or on the other list.<br>Failure to pass things like EIT/PSIP is another. I'm sure we'll find
<br>more...</blockquote><div><br>It seems to me that EIT data could be integrated as one source of data in a larger listings distribution system. In theory, only one person per market needs to be receiving the EIT/ETT data for everybody in the market to benefit.
<br><br>I am not a lawyer and I can't give you permission to redistribute my station's EIT data, but there is a strong case to be made that you don't need our permission to do so. It is data about our program stream that is already broadcast in the clear to everyone in our viewing area. It don't see how either we or TMS could claim copyright infringement if someone were to receive that data with an antennae and then email it to their friend across town.
<br><br>The idea of putting a box in our station to relay guide data to the internet hardly seems necessary in light of the fact that we are already broadcasting that data. <br><br>-Chris<br> </div><br></div><br>--
<br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>