I agree. It irritates me as well. If the field name is to suggest that it is when the programme was first broadcast, then that is what it should be. So if they ever put onto iPlayer something that was first, historically, broadcast during the brief period before the WW2 during which there were TV broadcasts (they were stopped to free up resources for the war effort), then the "<firstbcast>" field should contain that date.
On 02/06/14 23:17, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: > Robert Snelling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it just me, or have the BBC changed something? I make use of the >> "<firstbcast>" field... > > A bigger problem is that the BBC don't seem to have decided what "first > broadcast" should mean. > > For example I've fetched the files for The Hitchhiker's Guide... recently, > and they all have firstbcast values of 2014 - which is rubbish. For example > on > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jm5y.html > > they say that "Fit the Eleventh" was first broadcast on Saturday 17 May > 2014, which is wildly wrong. > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
