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Programmes missing from the TV listings
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- Subject: Programmes missing from the TV listings
- From: Sid Gale <sid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:04:02 +0100
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The bleb.org TV listings are very useful and are saving me a lot of
work, for which I'm very grateful. However, there seems to be a problem
with various programmes being omitted. To give a single example:
Listing for Channel 5 on Tuesday 10 August 2004 (both single and
multiple channel views)
23:45 Angel
02:10 Basketball
The raw xml (retrieved in xmltv format) shows:
<programme>
<subtitle>Series 4 ep 13</subtitle>
<desc>Fantasy drama series about a vampire with a soul. Wesley
prevents Lilah from turning into a vampire and decides to enlist the
help of rogue slayer Faith in dealing with the Beast. Meanwhile,
Cordelia has some devastating news for Connor. Starring David Boreanaz,
Alexis Denisof, Charisma Carpenter and Vincent Kartheiser, with
Stephanie Romanov, Eliza Dushku and Vladimir Kulich.</desc>
<title>Angel</title>
<end>0210</end>
<infourl>http://www.itv.com/listings/Programme.aspx?itvregion=london&itvpackage=ds&itvgenre=0&prognum=1060229&episode=83&scheduleid=1938840&channeldate=10/08/2004&channelid=CH5</infourl>
<start>2345</start>
</programme>
<programme>
<desc>Action from the 2004 NCAA final between Connecticut and
Georgia Tech.</desc>
<title>Basketball</title>
<end>0340</end>
<infourl>http://www.itv.com/listings/Programme.aspx?itvregion=london&itvpackage=ds&itvgenre=0&prognum=35615&episode=10&scheduleid=1938842&channeldate=10/08/2004&channelid=CH5</infourl>
<start>0210</start>
</programme>
<programme>
The listings on itv.com, radiotimes.com and five.tv show
23:50 Angel
0:40 Football (radiotimes.com - 0:35)
02:10 Basketball
Is this likely to be a glitch, an error at the information source
(itv.com?), or a retrieval/parsing problem? I notice that in the itv.com
html the entry for 'Football' is of a different format to the others; in
particular, there is no 'Click here for more details' link or <div
class='headertxt'> before the programme name.
Regards
Sid Gale