[mythtv-users] SCHED ALERT: President on Monday 8pm

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 05:46:54PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth writes:
> >If you have any scheduled recordings for Monday night (which includes
> >several season finales), note that The Futon Critic is reporting that
> >the president will be speaking on the networks from 8-8:20pm; it is
> >likely that this will messup your schedules, unless the networks decide
> >to merely pre-empt whatever they're running at 8.
> 
> On each run, mythfilldatabase always grabs today's schedule from datadirect.
> 
> It should be interesting to note whether datadirect updates their schedule 
> for tomorrow, and if mythtv adjusts its schedule accordingly for those who 
> have something scheduled for that slot.  My guess, for the latter, is 
> probably not -- as I recall mythtv identifies programs by channel and 
> starting time.

It has not been our experience to date that presidential addresses are not
reflected in the schedule data.

Cheers,
-- jra
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