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<blockquote data-quote="arskiracer" data-source="post: 1167286" data-attributes="member: 119268">Okay, thanks for the help.&nbsp; How do people typically find the IMDB channel ID (aside from the obvious ones that are only slightly different in naming between the broadcast vs IMDB IDs)?&nbsp; It seems like whoever sets up the broadcast station at the broadcast facility itself can type in anything they want into the broadcast channel ID because I've seen some strange titles like the BounceTV that I mentioned earlier.&nbsp; The full title is &quot;KTFD 14.2 Bounce (Bounce ).&quot;&nbsp; I'm guessing the four letter portion of the station titles, such as &quot;KTFD&quot; is part of the FCC licence for the broadcast channel like how ham radio operators are always assigned some kind of call sign, is that correct?&nbsp; There is also a spanish broadcast channel that has the title &quot;KTFD-DT&quot; and it appears to have the same FCC call sign or whatever (if that's what the four letter title is), but IMDB only has one KTFD and it's in spanish, so I'm guessing it goes with the spanish KTFD.&nbsp; Anyway, not every broadcast station in my area provides the 4 letter call sign information, so I have to watch the channel until I see the name of the channel in the corner somewhere, but then I don't know how to match that name with the channel ID on IMDB.&nbsp; Windows Media Center must have figured this out behind the scenes somehow, any idea how microsoft used to correlate the two?&nbsp; Seems like there would be some clear way of matching the two.Thanks again,Adrian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="arskiracer, post: 1167286, member: 119268"] Okay, thanks for the help. How do people typically find the IMDB channel ID (aside from the obvious ones that are only slightly different in naming between the broadcast vs IMDB IDs)? It seems like whoever sets up the broadcast station at the broadcast facility itself can type in anything they want into the broadcast channel ID because I've seen some strange titles like the BounceTV that I mentioned earlier. The full title is "KTFD 14.2 Bounce (Bounce )." I'm guessing the four letter portion of the station titles, such as "KTFD" is part of the FCC licence for the broadcast channel like how ham radio operators are always assigned some kind of call sign, is that correct? There is also a spanish broadcast channel that has the title "KTFD-DT" and it appears to have the same FCC call sign or whatever (if that's what the four letter title is), but IMDB only has one KTFD and it's in spanish, so I'm guessing it goes with the spanish KTFD. Anyway, not every broadcast station in my area provides the 4 letter call sign information, so I have to watch the channel until I see the name of the channel in the corner somewhere, but then I don't know how to match that name with the channel ID on IMDB. Windows Media Center must have figured this out behind the scenes somehow, any idea how microsoft used to correlate the two? Seems like there would be some clear way of matching the two. Thanks again, Adrian [/QUOTE]

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