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Line 2: [[Image:Sky_EPG.jpg\|frame\|right\|The [[Sky Digital (UK)\|Sky Digital]] EPG in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Republic of Ireland]].]] An '''electronic program(me) guide''' ('''EPG''') or also an '''interactive program(me) guide''' ('''IPG''') or '''electronic service guide''' ('''ESG'''), is aan on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs, allowing a viewer to navigate, select, and discover content by time, title, channel, genre, etc, by use of his remote control, a keyboard or even a [[phone]] keypad. The technology is based upon [[broadcasting]] data to an application usually residing within [[middleware]] in a [[set-top box]] which connects to the television set and enables the application to be displayed. The technology is predominant in the [[digital television]] and [[digital radio\|radio]] world, but equally EPGs exist that rely upon analogue technology (using the VBI—or [[vertical blanking interval]]). These signals may arrive via [[cable television\|cable TV]], [[satellite television\|satellite TV]], [[cable radio]], [[satellite radio]], or via over-the-air terrestrial [[broadcast station]]s.

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