[Developers] Semantic TV Guide

[Philip Kendall]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:26:27PM -0500, Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
> What we don't have yet is information about these cable companies' 
> markets, packages, and channel lineups. Once that information is 
> modeled, we would need information about upcoming programming information.
> 
> I did some searching, but was not able to find any sources of publicly 
> licensed schedule information to be mined. Assuming there was a place we 
> could pull this info from and dump into freebase, I think a semantic TV 
> guide application would be a great thing.

At least in the UK, the schedule information is regarded as valuable IP
of the networks and anyone who's tried this kind of thing has been
politely but firmly asked to stop.

Sorry for being a bit of a wet blanket :-(

Cheers,

Phil

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