Ah well, time to send an email to radio.times@bbc.co.uk and see what comes back...
slightly tangential, but does anyone have an opinion as to which is best in terms of accuracy and update frequency: radiotimes or digiguide?
Radio Times have changed the "handshake" that is needed to access the xml feed, that's happened before, will see if I can get someone interested in fixing it.
I didn't even notice the listings were broken until someone pointed it out
I don't see how digiguide is free. In XMLTV GUI to default settings to access it are to look on localhost. Meaning you need the app installed. No?
If you are using the latest xmltv gui then it won't write a listings file if it downloads no programs, therefore mediaportal should just re-import the old file