{"id":56977,"date":"2025-08-10T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56977\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:25:08","slug":"why-doesnt-sbs-include-repeats-in-epg-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56977\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn’t SBS include “Repeats” in EPG info?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tViewers are too time-poor to be watching SBS shows without knowing if they are repeats or not.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know about you, but I find I\u2019m too time-poor to be watching something only to realise half way through I\u2019ve seen it before.<\/p>\n

I also like to know when a new season of a favourite show is starting so I can put time aside. It\u2019s why I endeavour to highlight such info to TVT readers through Programming posts, Daily Picks and the site\u2019s Calendar<\/a> (check it out if you haven\u2019t used it before).<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s pretty important that such information is communicated via Guide and EPG info.<\/p>\n

Yet while EPGs carry info about ABC, Seven, Nine and 10 repeats, it\u2019s a different story with SBS.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, it isn\u2019t available on Smart TV EPGs, nor third party online guides, nor even the SBS official site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is available in print guides and in small text in their supplied PDFs hosted under site Guides here<\/a>. But it\u2019s disappointing it doesn\u2019t filter through to electronic EPGs.<\/p>\n

I decided to raise it with the good folk at SBS.<\/p>\n

\u201cSBS\u2019s EPG is integrated into SBS On Demand, where audiences typically don\u2019t require Repeat episode information given the nature of streaming and the breadth of our VOD catalogue,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

But then a win\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognise the value of Repeat episode information for viewers on our linear platforms and have scheduled updates to our EPG in FY26 to include this, in addition to Closed Captions and Audio Description information.\u201d<\/p>\n

A belated, but good move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viewers are too time-poor to be watching SBS shows without knowing if they are repeats or not. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-56977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}