Conspiracy Theory Show on Discovery Not Shown?

[Uncayimmy]

So, I'm flipping through the channels the other day and the digital cable guide says that Discovery should be running a show about conspiracy theories and other controversial subjects. Only that's not the show that was on. It was something else entirely. By that I mean the show title didn't match the what was in the menu, so naturally the content did not either.

I have never seen Discovery mess up the digital cable guide before. What happened? Why "screw up" on a show about conspiracy theories? It makes you wonder...

[Audible Click]

Ask Ultima1 about it...I dare you! :D

[Uncayimmy]

Come to think of it, the show in its place was about NSA agents...

[Juniversal]

Oh no. The NWO's reign of evil has BEGUN!!! :shocked:

[Praktik]

I work for a canadian broadcaster and I can tell you that guide problems are an every day occurrence. Or at least, frequent.

Most broadcasters will source their guide information to a particular company, like TV Guide or a competing company.

Stations may change their line up AFTER the info has already gone to TV guide, TV Guide may make their own mistakes, and finally the broadcaster may make their own mistakes entering the info.

Lots of places for mistakes. While the show being different than what is displayed in the guide may be the most noticeable error, PVR users on the board may be familiar with having "new episode" timers not function because the info of the event - even if it is the correct show title - may not have the necessary episode information for the PVR to recognize a new event (or it may think it was a "duplicate" event).

Anyway, talking from firsthand experience, I am not surprised in the least that there was a guide problem w/ Discovery somewhere in America recently.

Luck would have it that it happened with a show on conspiracies - but if any CTer out there is thinking suspiciously, just what do you think you'd see on the show in the first place?

I would place a bet that the show would be rather shallow, innocuous and not get anywhere close to the prime-time broadcast revelations dreamed of by fantasists everywhere.

[Horatius]

Stations may change their line up AFTER the info has already gone to TV guide, TV Guide may make their own mistakes, and finally the broadcaster may make their own mistakes entering the info.





And some mistakes look like some sort of systematic screw up. There was one station I watch Stargate:SG-1 on, that would consistently mess up the "episode description": Every week, they ran the description for the following week's episode. Not sure how that happened, but it was convenient, since I had a week's warning that a good (or bad! ;)) episode was coming up.

[Brainster]

Stations may change their line up AFTER the info has already gone to TV guide, TV Guide may make their own mistakes, and finally the broadcaster may make their own mistakes entering the info.

That's what they want you to think.

[T.A.M.]

yah, its all a canadian conspiracy I tell ya! We didnt get "New World Order" on our IFC up here either....

TAM:)

[Ysidro]

And some mistakes look like some sort of systematic screw up. There was one station I watch Stargate:SG-1 on, that would consistently mess up the "episode description": Every week, they ran the description for the following week's episode. Not sure how that happened, but it was convenient, since I had a week's warning that a good (or bad! ;)) episode was coming up.

See, a similar thing happens here with a local station's late night broadcast of the original Star Trek. Unfortunately, it's the previous week's broadcast. Damn it, I already know what aired last week!

[fitzgibbon]

yah, its all a canadian conspiracy I tell ya! We didnt get "New World Order" on our IFC up here either....

TAM:)

Blame Ted or Jim. They're the Canuck NWO.....oh...wait a sec. Ted's dead.


Nevermind!

[Blender Head]

Was "Conspiracy of Silence" uh..."silenced" by the Discovery Channel two decades ago as conspiracists claim?

[dropzone]

See, a similar thing happens here with a local station's late night broadcast of the original Star Trek. Unfortunately, it's the previous week's broadcast. Damn it, I already know what aired last week!Or are you psychic? Never thought of it like that, did you? :eye-poppi