Is it worth contacting Tribune directly?

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Is it worth contacting Tribune directly?

Postby swiftnick » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:06 am

If Tivo inc get their data from Tribune, would that not be a good source for the new EPG system.
I imagine there would be a subscription fee for this but can't be too much surely.

Just a thought.

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Re: Is it worth contacting Tribune directly?

Postby Ant » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:01 pm

These would be the people to ask: http://www.tvdata.com/
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Re: Is it worth contacting Tribune directly?

Postby puffdaddy » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:46 am

For what it's worth, http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ was the collaborative effort to keep the old Zap2it XML listings available. IIRC, TMS felt that the Zap2it feeds were become too burdensome, and didn't want to take the role of charging end users (instead focusing on commercial companies). Schedules Direct negotiated for US/Canada EPG data, and took on the role of collecting the fees (20USD/year).

Could be worth an email to see if they can include UK EPG as well?
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Re: Is it worth contacting Tribune directly?

Postby spitfires » Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:30 am

That's certainly worth looking at I think - who wants to pick this one up and ask them?
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Re: Is it worth contacting Tribune directly?

Postby irrelevant » Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:05 am

Not wishing to step forward on that, as I've got enough on my plate at the moment, but I've had a quick look at their website and they do seem primarily concerned with providing data for a fixed range of "approved" Open Source apps. I don't know how this project will fit into that philosophy.
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