[mythtv-users] Let's get our heads straight here on listings solutions

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:39:29AM -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Mattias Holmlund <mattias.holmlund at gmail.com> says:
> > I would guess that a lot of stations collaborate so you can probably
> > use the same parser for many channels.
> 
> There are 210 Designated Market Areas in the United States. The vast
> majority of them each have a local affiliate station for each of the
> six national commercial broadcast networks and the national
> non-commercial broadcast network, plus several independent
> stations. Each of those local affiliate stations uses a broadcast
> schedule slightly different from every other affiliate for that
> network. Each of those independent stations uses a broadcast schedule
> slightly or entirely different from every other independent
> station. Many of these stations, affiliated or independent, air
> programs on more than one channel, each with a different schedule.
> 
> As much as I'd love to be able to say that we US MythTV users can
> follow the Swedish example, Mattias, it's just not possible.

According to Wikipedia, the FCC says the total number of licensed
TV-band transmitters in the US is 8839.

This is one reason why a separate newsgroup for each program source is
probably impractical, as much as I'd prefer to do it that way.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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