I’m also missing this with Trakt. Ofcourse we can stream episodes afterwards with video on demand services, but how hard can it be to just add one single time for the original airing in the original country. That would make a lot of linear TV viewers very happy.

@idrissi_md said:

i was thinking only adding it for the first broadcast many apps are using your api including trakt if the air time is implemented i'm guessing we will have many users

There is a field to inform the standard duration of an episode.
See here on the penultimate line, Runtime :
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1418-the-big-bang-theory/edit?active_nav_item=primary_facts

In addition, the episode duration implementation has already started.
See here: https://trello.com/c/JTXGkswM/29-add-per-episode-runtimes
You can vote. More votes, faster.

We did vote but we are talking here about airtime not runtime

@idrissi_md said:

We did vote but we are talking here about airtime not runtime

Sorry for my misunderstanding.
I believe that the last comment from Administrator Travis Bell is still the official position of TMDb.

I'd also would like to add my request for adding a basic field for a shows original airtime. I think that's the only really missing data right now (for me). Right now my app is using a default 00:00 for every show.

Could we at least have it added as a backlog item? So people can vote for it?

@idrissi_md said:

i was thinking only adding it for the first broadcast many apps are using your api including trakt if the air time is implemented i'm guessing we will have many users

I've just come up against this when adding a daily round up programme about the Paralympics - the time of the episode in Trakt ends up being 1am, which is before any of the events in the programme have happened lol. I've sent feedback to Trakt to see if they can implement it directly there - no air time makes sense for this website, but not for theirs.

@herdivineshadow said:

@idrissi_md said:

i was thinking only adding it for the first broadcast many apps are using your api including trakt if the air time is implemented i'm guessing we will have many users

I've just come up against this when adding a daily round up programme about the Paralympics - the time of the episode in Trakt ends up being 1am, which is before any of the events in the programme have happened lol. I've sent feedback to Trakt to see if they can implement it directly there - no air time makes sense for this website, but not for theirs.

They do overwrite it when you file a ticket to them. The site also got a report button at item level yesterday making the process a lot easier. With TVDB closing their API in October trakt will rely primarily on TVMaze for airing time in the future fwiw...

@sp1ti said:

@herdivineshadow said:

@idrissi_md said:

i was thinking only adding it for the first broadcast many apps are using your api including trakt if the air time is implemented i'm guessing we will have many users

I've just come up against this when adding a daily round up programme about the Paralympics - the time of the episode in Trakt ends up being 1am, which is before any of the events in the programme have happened lol. I've sent feedback to Trakt to see if they can implement it directly there - no air time makes sense for this website, but not for theirs.

They do overwrite it when you file a ticket to them. The site also got a report button at item level yesterday making the process a lot easier. With TVDB closing their API in October trakt will rely primarily on TVMaze for airing time in the future fwiw...

Thanks @sp1ti - probably best for me to file a ticket with Trakt. The show I'm trying to fix isn't on TVMaze - so to get it on there I need to add it to TVDB, having already added it to TMBD lol.

@herdivineshadow said:

@sp1ti said:

@herdivineshadow said:

@idrissi_md said:

i was thinking only adding it for the first broadcast many apps are using your api including trakt if the air time is implemented i'm guessing we will have many users

I've just come up against this when adding a daily round up programme about the Paralympics - the time of the episode in Trakt ends up being 1am, which is before any of the events in the programme have happened lol. I've sent feedback to Trakt to see if they can implement it directly there - no air time makes sense for this website, but not for theirs.

They do overwrite it when you file a ticket to them. The site also got a report button at item level yesterday making the process a lot easier. With TVDB closing their API in October trakt will rely primarily on TVMaze for airing time in the future fwiw...

Thanks @sp1ti - probably best for me to file a ticket with Trakt. The show I'm trying to fix isn't on TVMaze - so to get it on there I need to add it to TVDB, having already added it to TMBD lol.

So if trakt has a show, but without a reference to a tvmaze show, it doesn't have an air time?

Is there an option to add an air time to a trakt show manually?

So if trakt has a show, but without a reference to a tvmaze show, it doesn't have an air time?

Is there an option to add an air time to a trakt show manually?

The site will keep any airing times they already had but it won't be updated through the thetvdb source anymore due to https://twitter.com/thetvdb/status/1427393758232907811?s=19 requiring a subscription they can't/won't afford. The solution is quote "New shows imported from TMDB will check TVMaze for airing info. If that doesn’t exist or is wrong, we can manually fix a show via support.".

@p0psicles said:

I'd also would like to add my request for adding a basic field for a shows original airtime. I think that's the only really missing data right now (for me). Right now my app is using a default 00:00 for every show.

Could we at least have it added as a backlog item? So people can vote for it?

@travisbell could you possibly consider this?

Any update on this ? I have to rely on the tvmaze api only for the timestamps... It is not possible to accurately determine wether an episode has already aired or not. Maybe as a start, the episodes could have an "air_time" key which default to 00:00 UTC as it currently is with the given "air_date". And with time, the required data could be collected wherever possible ?

Would like to revive this thread, i too have to rely on tvmaze for the timestamps, but their api is rate limited, which severely limits my performance. It would be amazing to have air time (preferable timestamp) added to the api. Please reconsider it