Reading a Channel's Program Schedule using gracenote

Owned by Georg Hentsch
Last updated: Aug 12, 2020
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gracenote supports programming schedules for broadcast stations worldwide. We have built a reader to read these schedules:

After launching the reader, fill in your apikey, select the time zone you want to use (since gracenote uses UTC) and a ratings body. Also, you can optionally download images from gracenote:

After that, choose the channels you want program schedules for by searching on channel names:

You can see the list of channels selected in the Channels tab:

The reader will pull in program schedules using the time interval set in the Setup tab.

In flow, you can see the schedule in the program schedule tab of Branding->Programs:

The reader supports ratings, episodes, synopsis and more. For example, a non-episodic show includes the following meta data:

And episodic shows includes:

Even sports events are supported to include logos for team matchups:

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