February 3, 2004

6:23 PM

I'm looking for a TV notification service. Something that will email / (dare I dream?) IM me when shows I want to watch are on. Additional challenge: I need it to support Canadian satellite (ExpressVu) TV.
posted by frenetic to (5 comments total)

Also suggestions on good online TV guides would be great as well. Right now I use Zap2it and it's okay but not very customizable.
posted by frenetic at 6:23 PM on February 3, 2004

FreeGuide rips TV schedules off of various websites. I'm not sure whether it does notification yet, but there are a couple of vagues references in the TODO list that indicate it is a planned feature.

If you have any programming skills, then at the very least FreeGuide might give you a base to start working off of.
posted by Galvatron at 9:36 PM on February 3, 2004

s/vagues/vague
posted by Galvatron at 9:37 PM on February 3, 2004

I was about to suggest DigiGuide which I used back when I had cable but it appears that they only deal with UK listings.

That's a shame as you can set reminders and the app will speak to you, telling you how long until a program is on (and they do a web based system with email alerts too).
posted by gi_wrighty at 2:01 AM on February 4, 2004

I don't know about support for Canadian satellite television, but have you looked at Yahoo? If you have a standard Yahoo! account, you can go through their tv listings and add shows to your calendar, with the option of getting an email and/or IM.
posted by frykitty at 12:46 AM on February 7, 2004