Well, the font size problem should be properly fixed now with the latest CVS build.
About your transparency thing: I don't see it here on the TV channels I can receive. So it doesn't seem to be a general bug, as such "hidden" time is also used by those channels, but they're not transparent, they're properly black here. Maybe your TV channel(s) are transmitting them as transparent (and not as hidden as on my channels). I guess that's the cause for what you are seeing there. The only fix would be to put an opaque black background behind it all, but that's not possible atm.
Just a theory, as I cannot reproduce your screen here. But that sounds reasonable to me.
About your transparency thing: I don't see it here on the TV channels I can receive. So it doesn't seem to be a general bug, as such "hidden" time is also used by those channels, but they're not transparent, they're properly black here. Maybe your TV channel(s) are transmitting them as transparent (and not as hidden as on my channels). I guess that's the cause for what you are seeing there. The only fix would be to put an opaque black background behind it all, but that's not possible atm.
Just a theory, as I cannot reproduce your screen here. But that sounds reasonable to me.