networks need to get on the ball with season finale naming

Howard wrote:
"RobR" wrote in news:[email protected]:
- the second hour of enterprise

Completely untrue. You're the first to report it, and I would suspect
padding to be the problem.

It is true, I reported it, and it had nothing to do with padding.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...58e9bc41b26f6a
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...&&#post2858583

Ten days before the finale, UPN started promoting the 2nd hour on TV.
It was on the Paramount web site, but not on the local upn44.com site.
My DirecTiVo got the corrected information about 36 hours before
showtime, but both of my SA TiVos did not get informed until I
forced a manual call at 1:30am on the day of the show.

properly (enterprise 2nd hour didnt even show up in the guide)

Again, first and only to report this.

Happened to many SA TiVos that had not made a daily call in time.
I forced several daily calls, and determined that the TiVo servers
got the correct information sometime between 11pm on Thursday and
1:30am Friday. (DirecTV got the notifications earlier.)

-Joe

"Mark" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 18 May 2005 16:57:17 GMT, omdotcom (Tim Witort)
wrote:

RobR seemed to utter in news:[email protected]:

so far in the past week, the tivo schedule has not known about the
finales of
- the third hour of survivor
- the second hour of the bachelor
- the second hour of enterprise

My DirecTiVo got all three hours of Survivor

Ditto. Must be a standalone issue in certain markets.

Survivor fans do use ARWL's rather than SP's, right? Why recreate a
season
pass each time and risk not getting it in time or forgetting?

I've been using the ARWL since the 2nd Survivor and it has not failed yet.

are you just putting keyword SURVIVOR in the WL or also specifying
REALITY category?

Joe Smith wrote:
RobR wrote:

so far in the past week, the tivo schedule has not known about the
finales of
- the third hour of survivor
- the second hour of the bachelor
- the second hour of enterprise


The second hour of Enterprise was labeled "America's Top Model".
That is, Paramount/UPN did not notify Tribune Media Services or
its member stations of the change, which means that Zap2it.com
did not get notified, and neither did standalone TiVos until
1:30am on the day of the show.

So, is was not a "season finale naming" problem; I put the
blame on Paramount for sending out proper notifications.
-Joe

I have a SA and weekly (usually Wednesday or Thursday) I check all the
"view episodes" for all my season passes. It takes only a few minutes
and avoids dissapointments when something goes amiss. The guide data
contains about two weeks. In the two weeks prior to it's airing, the
second hour of Enterprise was in my season pass and checked to record.
I have no idea why some SAs got it and some didn't.

--Charlene

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