Zap2It Labs Discontinuing Free TV Guide Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @08:01AM from the not-a-myth dept.

QuijiboIsAWord writes "Zap2It Labs, which provides free TV listing data for personal use, has long been the main source of program guide information for users in the US and beyond. They've announced via their webpage that, due to abuse of the service, data will no longer be available after September 1st. There is no other direct source, and no option to pay for the service even if the users wanted to. Without a data feed of this type, users will be reduced to scraping websites at best. Is this going to be a killing blow for MythTV?"

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Google should provide a WebService by Anonymous Coward · 2007-06-20 08:18 · Score: 5, Insightful

Shouldn't Google or Yahoo or Microsoft or any of the other big media / tech companies of the 21st century provide this information as a free WebService? Seems like something Google would jump on top of since their mission statement is to organize the worlds information. Well, TV listings is information.... get on that Google!