I'm trying to foresee all the possible caveats in the code, so I'd like to know if the show can have both 'network' and 'webChannel' data. I checked a few random shows, and they all seem to have only one of the two, but I certainly didn't check them all.
There's some I've noticed that have both on a season page, it's usually like NBC as TV and Peacock as streaming, or ABC and Hulu, BBC and BBC iPlayer. Those kinds of things.
From data policies
Web Channel
A web/streaming channel is used when a show did not premiere on a TV network, but on an online (streaming) outlet such as Netflix. Shows should have either a network or a web channel set; having both is very rare and only correct if episodes premiere exactly simultaneously on a TV network as well as a web channel.
Although ive definately run across users adding both when this isn't the case before.
I have definitely seen Netflix in web channels as an additional streaming service for some Korean series and Japanese anime that air on their home channels in their countries several times. And in the general calendar, if there is a link to Netflix as a "followed web channel", these shows also appear, although they are not "Netflix original".
@TomSouthwell wrote:
From data policiesAlthough ive definately run across users adding both when this isn't the case before.
Are you (I mean staff) keeping an eye out for those cases, or it is something that I have to anticipate in the code? In such situations, what is the primary source of the airdates, or the "owner" of the show, network, or web channel? I guess it's the network, right? I can imagine a situation when some show was added to Netflix or Prime Video after its linear broadcast, but I don't think I ever saw the opposite.
@obdue wrote:
Are you (I mean staff) keeping an eye out for those cases, or it is something that I have to anticipate in the code? In such situations, what is the primary source of the airdates, or the "owner" of the show, network, or web channel? I guess it's the network, right? I can imagine a situation when some show was added to Netflix or Prime Video after its linear broadcast, but I don't think I ever saw the opposite.
Not purposely, no. If a show aired on BBC One and iPlayer at the same time and both were listed the linear network would take precedent I believe, but @david is the best person to ask about that. To be fair it's probably worth asking why we do allow it, as I'm not aware of a simultaneous release on Streaming and Linear anywhere in the schedules I work on which is pretty much everywhere but the USA. I see alot of streamers running shows earlier in the schedule then a linear premiere, or sometimes a boxset dropping at 10pm as episode 1 finishes of a new show.
@obdue wrote:
In such situations, what is the primary source of the airdates, or the "owner" of the show, network, or web channel? I guess it's the network, right?
It would depend on where the show is from, I guess. For Asian shows the network being the "owner" would be more likely while for the Nordics the web channel is more likely correct if a show have both.
I can't say I've ever seen a double entry that's been valid, so whenever you guys encounter this feel free to correct it or bring it up in the forums if there's any doubt.
