Cross-referenced TDTChannels' maintained playlist against dead/missing
entries: removed a duplicate dead TV3 row in spain.md (TV3Cat already
covers it), and added new working channels to mexico.md (7), peru.md (3),
and usa.md (7). All new stream URLs verified live.
ATV+ Noticias moved off its old CDN link; switched to the official
YouTube live channel. Karibeña TV's frequency now carries Exitosa's
programming, so the entry is repointed accordingly.
Bulgaria, Moldova, Macau, Georgia, Greece channels
Cross-checked against iptv-org's maintained playlists (36 channels
fixed across nine files). Channels without a matching current source
remain marked invalid.
Cross-checked against iptv-org's maintained playlists (26 channels
fixed across the five files). Channels without a matching current
source remain marked invalid.
UK: ITV1, ITV2, Channel 5, TJC, TBN UK, True Crime, Talking Pictures TV,
Together TV, BBC News and TalkTV restored using current sources
cross-checked against iptv-org. Removed now-redundant duplicate rows
from the Invalid section for channels fixed in their proper table.
Azerbaijan: moved İctimai TV and Xəzər TV out of Invalid into the DVB-S
table now that working sources were found.
Cross-checked against iptv-org's maintained playlists. Only channels
with a confirmed current match were updated; smaller/regional channels
without a matching iptv-org entry remain marked invalid.
Replace dead IRIB/presstv and France broadcaster links with current
working streams, cross-checked against iptv-org's maintained playlists.
Several entries (IRIB TV5, Jame Jam, Sahar variants, France 2/3, C8, W9,
NRJ 12, TF1 Séries Films, L'Équipe, RMC Découverte, Chérie 25) still have
no verified working source and remain marked invalid.
The media company behind the channel was previously ~88% owned by Hungarian companies believed to be closely related to Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán. Their share now is currnetly undisclosed and believed to be mostly owned by members of SDS (Slovenian Democratic Party), the far-right party that established it.
SDS is known for it's anti-immigration, anti-islamic and anti-semitic rhetoric, spreading lies about important politicians and individuals, defunding the Slovenian Press Agency and sowing division in media and state.
via #880
Updated links for several news channels to remove YouTube URLs and replaced them with a generic placeholder. Added a valid link for News18 UP Uttarakhand.
Issue #483: these circled-letter suffixes are in-list markers for
human readers (subscription-required, geo-blocked, YouTube-sourced,
etc.), but were leaking into the generated tvg-name verbatim (e.g.
tvg-name="Rai 1 Ⓖ"), breaking EPG matching for any provider keying
off channel name. Now stripped from tvg-name only; the display name
after the comma still shows the marker as before.
Issue #427: the 4ce5e2d62ee2c10e43c709f9b87c44d5.streamhost.cc CDN used
by 9 Belgian channels is only partially alive - Tipik still works, but
RTL-Be, La Une, Club RTL, La Trois, Plug RTL, Canvas, VTM, VIER and VIJF
all 404. Marked those invalid. EEN, LN24, RTS Un and RSI (raw-IP hosts)
time out at the connection level rather than returning an HTTP error -
left as-is since that could be a Belgium/Switzerland-only block rather
than genuinely dead, and can't be told apart from here.
Switzerland: TVO's Kaltura URL now 404s, marked invalid.
Issue #409: ye23.vip (used by KBS 2TV, KBS News D, KBS Drama, KBS Joy,
KBS Kids, KBS Life, KBS Story, KBS World - 8 channels) is DNS-sinkholed,
resolving to 127.0.0.1 - the domain's been taken down. MBC TV's URL
404s. KBS 1TV, EBS (all variants), SBS TV, Arirang, CJB/JIBS/OBS TV are
confirmed working. KNN/KBC/TJB/UBC/JTV TV time out at the TCP level -
could be genuinely dead or Korea-only firewalled, left as-is since that
can't be told apart from here.
Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
PlaylistBot
Pratham Bhandary
Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai