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PLANNING NETWORK CHANNELS
These are TV-Networks – ABC, FOX, CBC, NBC, etc….
When scraping your media for covers and information, each series gets assigned a
<Studio> tag, which can be found and edited in the series folder, in a file called “tvshow.nfo”
(That is if you exported all your scraped covers, fanart and information. See page 18.)
When adding a Network channel in PseudoTV and you select “NBC” as the network, all TV-
shows aired on NBC will appear on this channel.
The plan is to move some of your shows on networks with a lot of content, to other networks
with less content. We need to balance it out. No use in having 1 network with 30+ shows
and another network only having only 2 shows.
The idea is to have many channels that are in the “Good” range with +- 10 shows, instead of
a few channels with too much content, or too many channels with almost no content.
Only 5 strong channels or over 500 weak channels isn’t really going to be very entertaining.
The problem is, how do we do this? How do we move shows from our overcrowded CBS
channel to other channels? Do we manually edit each shows <studio> tag?
No way, that will take forever! There must be a better way!
The good news is there is.
Some guy on the XBMC forums wrote a little tool that enables you to move TV-Shows
around quite easily, that edits the tvshow.nfo file and changes all the <studio> tags for you!
The tool is called “PseudoTV Network Manager” and is explained on the next page.
Strong Channel
(30+ Shows)
Good Channel
(10 Shows)
Weak Channel
(1 Show)
What are Network Channels?
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?
Some channels are naturally strong because you may have a lot of shows for them
(ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, BBC, etc) while other channels might be on the weak side.
