FYI Daily problem

Hello all,

Using the latest windows executable I am seeing a series of rather
specific errors in the xml file returned. It started a month ago when
someone (at metabroadcast I believe), decided that "FYI Daily" should
be elevated to being a full programme, rather than being little more
than an advert. For example, with the RT grabber I now get the
following. (I have removed the other tags for clarity.)

<programme start="20160507220000 +0100"
              stop="20160507230000 +0100" channel="itv4.itv.co.uk">
     <title>Double Jeopardy</title>
     <desc lang="en">Concludes.</desc>
</programme>

<programme start="20160507230000 +0100"
              stop="20160507230500 +0100" channel="itv4.itv.co.uk">
     <title>FYI Daily</title>
</programme>

<programme start="20160507230500 +0100"
              stop="20160508000500 +0100" channel="itv4.itv.co.uk">
     <title>Double Jeopardy</title>
     <desc lang="en">Concludes.</desc>
</programme>


The problem is that the <desc> tag just says "Concludes.", for both the
first and second half of the film. There are loads of examples of this
to be seen in the next 10 days, both on the RT grabber and Atlas. It
only seems to occur where FYI Daily cuts a film in half.

I have confirmed that the error is in the source data

Looking at http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat
...ITV4 is at http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/1961.dat
...and searching for the programme finds...

Double Jeopardy~ SNIP ~Drama~Concludes.~false~07/05/2016~22:00~23:00~60
FYI Daily~~~~ SNIP ~~Current affairs~~false~07/05/2016~23:00~23:05~5
Double Jeopardy~ SNIP ~Drama~Concludes.~false~07/05/2016~23:05~00:05~60

So it appears to be a mistake at Metabroadcast. I did look into how to
best get in contact with them but thought the Development team here
would carry more weight.

My homebrewed front-end software is very basic still, without the
description its difficult to guess which film it is.


d4x

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