TV Listings Experiments


Channel4 has been cleaning up an XML stream that can be parsed for some interesting results. Here are a few simple applications that use this data. The third has been mashed up with Technorati’s API.

TV Repeat-o-meter

I’m only telling it like it is… tells you how much original programing is going out on each of the core channels.

Genre Listing

Returns what percentage of the programming is being delivered to each of the main categories of show.

Blog Buzz

Queries last night’s TV against Technorati’s Search API to list activity based on factual and current affairs shows. Currently needs caching and spam filtering..