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Chapter 26 Electronic Program Guide

Concepts

Note	• To learn more about the supported TMS data format or to negotiate the commercial contract for a subscription,
	contact Amy Mann, the director of new media sales at Tribune Media Services. Her toll-free telephone number is
	800 833-9581, ext. 2333, and her email address is aamann@tribune.com. To ensure that your contract includes sufficient
	permissions, be sure to say that you intend to use TMS data for Cisco Cast.
	• It might be necessary to adjust security settings in your network so that you can receive EPG data from TMS. The ftp server
	on your DMM appliance must be able to reach the TMS ftp server.
	• Data from TMS is proprietary, copyrighted, and licensed. Although TMS compiles this licensed data in good faith, neither Cisco
	nor TMS makes any express or implied warranties regarding the data or its merchantability or fitness for any purpose.

Understand Methods to Describe EPG Channels

Generic Channel Descriptions

You can disassociate a channel from all EPG data sources.

In this case, the only information that an EPG will show about the channel is exactly the text that you enter in the Text to Show if Program Guide is Not Available field. This brief message, which you enter one time, describes the channel in a broad and general sense, and straddles all time slots.

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