Ignore 'rerun' flag and 'original airdate' when program category == "News"

[briand]

I *love* how mythweb now indicates which movies, specials, program episodes, etc I've previously recorded (even if they no longer exist in my /video directory)... but the side effect is that the local and national news are always shown has having been previously recorded. This is because the "original airdate" in the database is populated with a value usually more than 4 or 5 years ago (in one case, it's dated 1953!! [ABC World News Tonight]), for every instance of the program.

I would suggest that the 'rerun' flag and the 'original airdate' column in the program table be ignored when the 'category' == "News". That way, mythweb will not indicate that I've previously recorded next week's local 6:00pm newscast.

It might be trickier with 'category' == "Newsmagazine" -- they are often also shown with the 'rerun' flag and very old 'original airdate' [CBS 60 Minutes == '1968-09-24']... but some newsmagazine shows -are- indeed, repeats... a re-televising of a specific episode, or what-have-you.

I think my suggestion (above) will work for listings with 'category' == "News" ... but not sure we can ever get accurate results with 'category' == "Newsmagazine".

[Isaac Richards]

Feature request without patch.

[Isaac Richards]

Actually is a mythweb issue, not core as I thought.

[anonymous]

I get this also in mythweb 0.19. However it seems to happen for any "Title" that has been recorded previously. It seems to ignore the unique "Subtitle" and/or "Description". Working around this just for the news category is probably not sufficient. By the way this seems to be the same issue as ​http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1334

This issue does not occur in mythfrontend.

[xris]

dupe of #1293, which is now closed.