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5USA +1     241 130

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

media.info: For full details of broadcaster contacts, see the media.info link icon media.info 5USA +1 page.

Official site: See the www.channel5.com link icon 5USA +1 website.

From Wikipedia: 5USA is an entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Northern Shell. It is a sister channel of Channel 5 and 5. 5USA concentrates on showing imported movies and programmes from the United States, originally broadcast from 1600 to 0100, extending its hours starting at 1200 in June 2007. - en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org link icon read more about 5USA +1 on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

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Thursday, 26 March 2020
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js
sentiment_satisfiedGold

9:32 PM

I hadn't noticed before that the Freesat EPG has Extended Event Descriptors for 5 USA.

Here is an example:

************
5 USA +1, Sun 29 Mar 02:55 - 03:50: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
A six-year-old boy disappears during a wild drug party thrown by his mother. With a child's life at stake, the case causes Benson to question her own role as a mother. (S18 Ep 8)[S]
(Contains strong language and drug use)

<extended_event_descriptor lang = eng>
EpisodeName = Chasing Theo
EpisodeNumber = 8
SeriesNumber = 18
AlphaSortIndexEventName = Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TEXT:
Drama series about an NYPD unit specialising in sex-related crimes. A six-year-old boy disappears during a wild drug party thrown by his mother. With a child's life at stake, the case causes Benson to question her own role as a mother [S]
</extended_event_descriptor>
************

Does anyone see this stuff on their Freesat device?

I tried searching for "AlphaSortIndexEventName" and came up empty except for my own posts on here. It seems an unlikely term to use on a consumer device.

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Friday, 27 March 2020
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Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

1:24 AM

js:

Oops, must have been something in your post that the automated censor didn't like, no doubt incorrectly!

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js
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3:23 AM

Chris.SE: There was nothing objectionable in the post that I am aware of.

As for "automated censor" I'm fairly certain it was there earlier.

The post was merely showing how the 5 USA +1 event cited above was technically delivered.

Perhaps someone thought that information should not be published.

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js
sentiment_satisfiedGold

3:52 AM

js: Nothing quite like freedom of information, eh? Censor??? We don't need no stinking censor!

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js
sentiment_satisfiedGold

6:15 AM

It's a real pain to have to redo this and I've had a few beers so not sure I've got it right but this is essentially what I posted.

I'm replacing < by [ and > by ] in case that was the trigger for the "moderation".

Here is an xml dump from the TransEdit TS Analyser of the afore-mentioned Extended Event, illustrating its structure:

[?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?]
[ASTRA_11426.5_H_03-27_05-19-13_03-27_05-22-47]
[EIT PID="3007" Name="Other TS, Schedule"]
[OriginalNetworkID Value="2"]
...
[TransportStreamID Value="2056"]
...
[ServiceID Value="7711" Name="5 USA +1"]
...
[EventID Value="4851"]
[TableID HValue="0x60"/]
[SectionNumber Value="128"/]
[StartTime String="29/03/2020 01:55:00"/]
[Duration String="00:55:00"/]
[RunningStatus Value="0" Name="undefined"/]
[FreeCAMode Value="0" Name="not encrypted"/]
[Descriptor HValue="0x4E" Name="Extended Event"]
[DescriptorLength Value="255"/]
[DescriptorNumber Value="0"/]
[LastDescriptorNumber Value="1"/]
[Language String="eng"/]
[Item_0]
[Description String="EpisodeName"/]
[Item String="Chasing Theo"/]
[/Item_0]
[Item_1]
[Description String="EpisodeNumber"/]
[Item String="8"/]
[/Item_1]
[Item_2]
[Description String="SeriesNumber"/]
[Item String="18"/]
[/Item_2]
[Item_3]
[Description String="AlphaSortIndexEventName"/]
[Item String="Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit"/]
[/Item_3]
[Text String="Drama series about an NYPD unit specialising in sex-related crimes. A six-year-old boy disappears during a wild drug party thrown by h"/]
[/Descriptor]
[Descriptor HValue="0x4E" Name="Extended Event"]
[DescriptorLength Value="110"/]
[DescriptorNumber Value="1"/]
[LastDescriptorNumber Value="1"/]
[Language String="eng"/]
[Text String="is mother. With a child&apos;s life at stake, the case causes Benson to question her own role as a mother [S]"/]
[/Descriptor]
[Descriptor HValue="0x5F" Name="Private Data Specifier"]
[DescriptorLength Value="4"/]
[PrivateDataSpecifier HValue="0x46534154" Name="FSAT"/]
[/Descriptor]
[Descriptor HValue="0xE0" Name="User defined"]
[DescriptorLength Value="18"/]
[Data Dump="03 03 0A 0E 31 34 36 32 35 35 34 31 2E 6C 2E 70 6E 67"/]
[ASCII String=" 14625541.l.png"/]
[/Descriptor]
[/EventID]
...
[/ServiceID]
...
[/TransportStreamID]
...
[/OriginalNetworkID]
[/EIT]
[/ASTRA_11426.5_H_03-27_05-19-13_03-27_05-22-47]

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js
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6:41 AM

well, it's still there. If it gets "moderated", that would be interesting. Meanwhile, it's bedtime for bonzo.

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Saturday, 28 March 2020
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Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

5:20 PM

js:

I had absolutely no doubt that there wouldn't have been anything objectionable in the post. The automated censor is obviously a reactive thing that scans posts sometime after they are made which is why they appear for a short time. I expect it found a "string" of characters that it managed to interpret as something objectionable, some swear word or something else obscene. Where I've posted long complex posts, I have occasionally taken to taking a copy of the text and saving it in a text file before I post, so that I can recover it if the need arises.

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js
sentiment_satisfiedGold

7:09 PM

Chris.SE: I had it in a text file but deleted that after checking it was up on here. I remember copying the xml part of it off here and checking if worked in Internet Explorer - which it did. That it contained a valid xml file may have caused the moderation of it.

My intention was to show how the Items are sent and how the term "AlphaSortIndexEventName" is a transmitted field name, one which is hardly likely to appear on a consumer device.







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