LocateTV Blog

We’ve received lots of feedback from people such as Mori at the After Ellen blog who have been introduced to LocateTV, love the concept, but would like to see coverage in regions other than the US and UK. One of the most common requests is for Canadian coverage, so as a direct upshot of this feedback we are currently doing a study to look at the logistics of incorporating Canada into LocateTV.

Expanding our global coverage has been an ambition from the outset, but presents a number of challenges for us. For each new country we must source the information for TV listings and online and DVD coverage in that country. Then we need to combine that information with the data we already have, ensure that we can automatically regionalise the results for the visitors when they come to the site, and allow them to further personalise their results by setting their local TV supplier.

The net result is that when someone is embedding their favourite show on their webpage, blog or forum, they know that the visitors to their site will automatically get the listings for where the show is available in the country they live in - for example, we need to be able to say that a given episode of Heroes to be shown on Channel A in America is the same as the one that will be shown on Channel B in the UK and Channel C in Canada.

It’s a lot of work! So no promises yet for the Canadians as to when LocateTV we will be ready for them, but rest assured that we’re listening to your comments and it’s on the roadmap.

Colin