Whenever I tune in to the news via Global OTA, it shows "Headlines from Donn Mills". Obviously there's a lack of due care and attention by whoever updates that data at Global. I find Canadian broadcasters (except CBC) put very little effort into these program descriptions. CHCH OTA has been showing nothing but "DTV Program" for the past several days.

Meanwhile on the cable side, Rogers on screen guide is extremely detailed. It tells you if the episode is "NEW" or a "repeat" It also gives an original TVGuide style program synopsis and as an added bonus the episode name and original air date. This is quite helpful when watching CHCH. Their trending feature [I assume] lists every Rogers channel offered. I once checked and stopped at 150. Another useful feature is "Free For Me" which only lists the channels to which I subscribe.

No RA, mine is correct. Do you have your region settings defined correctly, ie. country and zip code?  Are you routing the Internet connection via your VPN? As for the Global News "Donn Mills" spelling, that's been ongoing for a long time now.  I think this came up in a thread some time ago.

I just checked to see if I received the updated guide on my DVR and noticed under WGRZ's NBC News Daily, the program description reads: 

"Mid-day news in Tyler-Longview with today's local stories."

Where is Tyler-Longview? Turns out it's in Texas. 

Why it would say that on an NBC show being broadcast on a Buffalo affiliate is beyond me. 

Evuguy wrote:

Mine does permit the entry of Canadian postal codes, so I suspect you may have a different software load to me. On power up, the EPG data is initially loaded from the tuned channel and then gets appended from the Internet. I suspect if you disconnected the Internet and rebooted, you would get the correct EPG data when tuned to WGRZ and WKBW. Of course, their steams only provide program data for their own channels. I have to admit though, I can't think of a good reason why you would be seeing out of market EPG data when using a Buffalo zip code. I assume this is something that has just started recently?

Actually, it's been going on for a while. While most listings I look at on the EPG are fine, it seems to be the local news ones where it goes haywire. 

Evuguy wrote:

I have to confess that I don't use it very often but I will keep an eye out for this. It has to be their server pushing the wrong data to you.

I'm not sure who Channel Master uses to send this info. I do know that it only feeds once a week - sometime early Thursday. If you miss it, you can't get it again until the following Thursday, and you're stuck with whatever the local station puts out. It never used to be like that, but CM discontinued the model, told me they would also be stopping the guide updates years ago, but they still continue for some reason 

It's a bit of an odd service but it seems to work and once a week is plenty for me to set up what I want to record. But if the power to the unit ever goes out, you're essentially on a day-to-day only program guide until the next update. 

If I see that weird listing again, I'll try and get a pic of it and post it here. 

It happened again. Here's the description for "NBC News Daily" airing on WGRZ-TV in Buffalo. Check out what the description says. (As noted before, Tyler-Longview is in Texas.)

Hi RA. So, I took a look this evening and noticed WKBW's 11pm news has no info. In other words, WKBW is not sending any EPG event details on their ATSC stream for this program. I'm wondering if this is where you might see EPG data creep in from other regions, as the CM box may try and fall back on the Internet EPG data.  

Just for a test, you can try doing a soft reset of the box by holding the front power button until the LED changes from blue to bright red. The box will then reboot and purge all the stored EPG data. Your EPG data will then strictly be what is sent on the ATSC streams until the next push on Thursday. You will also lose your channel icons.

Bell had some issues also:  
From their Facebook page: 
"Some Bell Satellite customers may be experiencing issues with the on-screen guide. Our team is actively working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding. We’ll share updates as soon as they’re available."



(the problem has been resolved)

 

Last edited by Radiowiz (December 16, 2025 3:23 am)

Well, this is a new one on me. It turned up on the description for WKBW-TV's noon news. Lake Charles? I'm not sure but isn't that in Louisiana?

mace wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Well, this is a new one on me. It turned up on the description for WKBW-TV's noon news. Lake Charles? I'm not sure but isn't that in Louisiana?

Yes it is. Isn't Lake Charles mentioned in The Band song Up On Cripple Creek?

 
It is! Right after the Gulf of Mexico is mentioned, BTW, that’s what I still call it!

Bell’s Satellite TV program guide has the wrong listing each day at 4:30 EST for CTV Halifax.  It lists CTV Atlantic from 4-5 pm and will not record CTV National News with Sandie Rinaldo.  The program listing on Bell Fibe is correct and you can set a timer for the CTV National News at 4:30.  I’ve brought that to their attention but no one cares.

Last edited by tvguy (December 23, 2025 4:41 pm)

Two for the price of one! On Wednesday night, there were not one but two weird listings on my DVR, both at the same time. The first one is from WKBW, the second from WGRZ. As far as I know, I'm not getting stations from either Boise or Savannah, but you wouldn't know it from the show descriptions!