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== Provide an orientation ==

Contributors need an orientation, and a framework into which they can put their contribution (or withhold until they understand the overall framework that their own understanding fits. Many contributors merely understand their own limited environment, and presume to generalize. For example, mine is limited to a northern Virginia broadcast TV EPG on a digital converter. If I were to extrapolate, I might presume that most broadcasters are as careless as mine about accuracy, and reliability. It often takes weeks for changes in the program broadcasts to be reflected in the EPG. Some broadcasters provide nothing but the call sign & the channel #, with "No description". I don't suppose there is one clearinghouse for this information, but that viewers must contact each stationhouse manager to inform them of persistent malfunctions, because the station staff probably do not monitor their own EPG as well as they do their video(if at all).<br>

It might be a limit of my receiving set, but only the next few (2-6) hours of programming is available in the EPG. There are also websites that provide parallel and analogous information in a table format, which could be printed for planning purposes: http://epguides.com/grid <br>[[User:Wikidity|Wikidity]] ([[User talk:Wikidity|talk]]) 01:43, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

== Make article less US specific ==

The article talks about ATSC and PSIP whereas many countries are using DVB building the EPG from the EIT(schedule) SI data. If the article is going to be specific about how US systems build the EPG, would it not be sensible to include information about how DVB systems build their EPG?

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== Make article include Digital Radio ==

The article should also consider the EPG broadcast using the Eureaka 147 standard (and possible HD-Radio standard).

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I am requesting that the article [[Electronic Content Guide]] be merged into the article [[Electronic program guide]] due to the former's redundancy with this article. I placed this on the discussion page of the Electronic Content Guide (which is an unreferenced, orphan article) as well, but to get an actual consensus, I have also placed the merge proposal here on this talk page. ([[User:Tvtonightokc|TVtonightOKC]] ([[User talk:Tvtonightokc|talk]]) 10:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC))

== Needs "data quality" or "data sources" section ==

It would be helpful if the article provided additional details on where and how Program Guide information comes

from would be appropriate in this section.

The service provided with over-the-air HDTV systems in the US, via the [[Program and System Information Protocol]]

for example, typically is either blank or does not describe the programming being broadcast.

[[User:Wikip rhyre|rhyre]] ([[User talk:Wikip rhyre|talk]]) 08:32, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

== Spam captions ==

Both of the images in the lead appear to be there purely to spam the creators. Is there content in the article that can used to explain why these were chosen instead of just advertising? -- [[User talk:TheRedPenOfDoom|<span style="color:red;;;">TRPoD <small>aka The Red Pen of Doom</small></span>]] 17:32, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

== Recent reversions ==

I have just undone an unsourced paragraph from another user who appears to have a potential conflict of interest related to Inview. I have also announced my own potential conflict of interest (related to AT&T) so I don't mean to step on any toes. However, I was following up on another editor (TheRedPenOfDoom) who performed similar reversions. At a minimum, content that states opinions about the difficulty of use or proper solution for EPG remote problems should be [[WP:V|sourced]]. When that is resolved we can talk about whether the proposed edits slant too much in any direction. Thank you for your understanding. [[Special:Contributions/12.153.112.21|12.153.112.21]] ([[User talk:12.153.112.21|talk]]) 17:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

:Agree, that while potentially "true", without actual reliable third party sources to support the "facts", it is just [[WP:OR]]. -- [[User talk:TheRedPenOfDoom|<span style="color:red;;;">TRPoD <small>aka The Red Pen of Doom</small></span>]] 18:01, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

== Use of Bold Typeface ==

Why so much use of bold in this article? I have not seen this on any other Wikipedia page, so it doesn't seem to conform to the usual style of Wikipedia.

Should the bolded words be changed to the standard typeface? <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Marchino61|Marchino61]] ([[User talk:Marchino61|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Marchino61|contribs]]) 03:13, 6 November 2013 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

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