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Hi
everyone!
One
application that vCalendar and iCalendar haven't touched on is using it as part
of an electronic programme guide for radio and TV broadcasters or for
transporting information regarding broadcasts over any transport
protocol.
Applications include: a TV station running a Web-based programme guide;
people sending detalis about "must-watch" TV shows to others via
e-mail or newsgroups and topic-specific Web sites pointing to shows discussing
the topic being shared on the Web site.
A
broadcast could be specified as:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN VEVENT
UID:19970323T120000Z-000000@GTV9
CATEGORY:TV-BROADCAST
DTSTART:19970323T180000+1100
DURATION:PT30M
LOCATION:GTV 9 (Broadcaster call
sign)
SUMMARY:National Nine News (Programme
title)
END VEVENT
END VCALENDAR
The only
problem is that LOCATION could be regarded as being ambiguous, because the
channel name would also be the broadcaster's name.
Broadcasts could have the CATEGORY property being referred to as
RADIO-BROADCAST or TV-BROADCAST appropriate to the show, and the LOCATION being
a machine-readable / human-readable identifier for the broadcaster such as the
broadcaster's call sign.
I hope
that you could look at this issue as part of the standard,
With
regards,
Simon
Mackay
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