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  • EPG hopelessness

    From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 28 12:41:45 2023
    Switching to the news channel, my set told me I'd switched into
    Newswatch, which of course I hadn't, as events have made all but rolling
    news cancelled. Fair enough, I thought - events. But then there was
    going to be the travel show - also cancelled, but also still there (in
    both "now and next" and the guide). Finally, Click also out - so six to
    eight hours of no updating.

    I've noticed it's frequently wrong.

    Finally, a trailer for the travel show was shown - OK, it only mentioned iPlayer, but that was the last straw!
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to brian1gaff@gmail.com on Sun Oct 29 14:21:16 2023
    In message <008401da0a47$b9fd6c40$1101a8c0@BriansPC> at Sun, 29 Oct 2023 09:10:13, brian1gaff@gmail.com writes
    Its worse than that, a couple of weeks ago Really had a plug for a
    program coming up in the middle of the preceding program, right over
    the crucial dialogue of the program, The program they were plugging
    was in fact not on at all.

    BBCNews finally got round to showing an episode of Click overnight. I
    didn't notice whether the EPG was correct.

    I never looked at the EPG as its generally only a guide and must be
    being maintained by the work experience intern, who does not give an
    xxxx unless he can be on his phone.
    Brian
    []
    On the whole I get the impression that it's not _maintained_ at all;
    it's set up, maybe once a week, and then completely ignored. Very
    occasionally it _might_ get tweaked if the great god Sport overruns,
    though not usually even then.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    The average age at which a woman has her first child has passed 30.
    Jason Cowley, RT 2016/6/11-17

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