For some reason I haven’t seen this in the various MythTV HowTo’s:

mythfilldatabase --do-channel-updates

Note that this will wipe out any customizations you’ve done to channels. But it sure beats the goofy “Adding Channel ##” names you get when first scanning for channels using mythtv-setup.

Check out the other options as well:

mythfilldatabase --help

I signed up with the “new” channel listings supplier, SchedulesDirect. At first I was really ticked off that no one put together a free service to replace the previous one from Zap2It, but SchedulesDirect has done a great job transparently replacing the previous service. And that saved me a LOT of headache! :> So I guess I won’t complain about the $15 just yet…

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