The series SEAL Team had an episode air on 3/11 at 8pm ET, however due to the President's speech about COVID-19, the first 15 minutes or so of the episode was cut off.
I learned that CBS planned to re-air the episode in full on Saturday (3/14), so made a note of it and planned to manually set it to record (since WMC would have already thought this episode recorded already so would not automatically schedule it again).
Well, here we are, ONE day later and the guide has already been updated with the 3/14 airing, and not only that, but they gave the episode a new ProgramID/uid so it is automatically set to record without having to do a thing! WMC sees it as a separate episode from the one it recorded on 3/11. Fantastic!
I looked in the MXF file to see if I could tell what changed between the two iterations of the episode and luckily they were BOTH still in there (not sure why the already aired episode was not purged, but probably because the episode aired on 3/12 at 00:00 UTC and I did the EPG123 update at 03/12 23:30 UTC, so EPG123 probably only purges airings that were on prior days and not if they occurred earlier on the same day (even though technically, it should probably purge them). I'm guessing the old one will be purged on the next update that occurs on 3/13 UTC.
In any case, here are the differences:
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First airing Second airing
Program id="11345" Program id="11421"
uid="!Program!EP02696552_0062" uid="!Program!EP02696552_0066"
originalAirdate="2020-03-11" originalAirdate="2020-03-14"
hasViolence="true"One thing I wonder about is, going forward, how will this episode be identified by Gracenote? When the show is repeated in the future, will it use 11345 or 11421?