Tonight Show 3:05 AM repeats?

[Fofer]

I have a SP for "The Tonight Show" (First Run only, KAM=3.) Why does the SP insist on picking up those 3:05 AM repeats so often? Looking in the episode description, it *does* have an "R" at the end -- which I assume means the guide data is accurately labeling them as repeats.

It's not a huge deal, I can just increase my KAM, or manually delete them, or set up a manual repeating recording for 11:35 PM instead. But I'm curious why none of my other SP's exhibit this issue, of a "First Run" SP not actually filtering properly, when the Guide Data appears to be correct.

[stujac]

Not sure this applies but I also get the 3:00 showing on my Comcast DVR (3416) and it's also set to record first run only.

[wmcbrine]

It could be that, since the repeats are often very recent, they're still counted as "new"; so if it didn't record them the first time*, it grabs them. I believe "new" status is based on the original air date rather than the "R" flag, and anything within a certain time after that (two weeks? four?) is still counted. That's how it can pick up repeat airings of a new show later in the week, when it can't get the first airing due to conflicts.

* Oh, or maybe even it if it did, but they were deleted unwatched -- ISTR something about that.

[tivoman]

I have DirecTV and get the same thing, about three months ago I setup 2 manual recordings (5 minutes long), so it wouldn't record the rerun of Leno.

[Fofer]

It could be that, since the repeats are often very recent, they're still counted as "new".

Make sense. It's too bad the TiVo doesn't take the "R" (ie: repeat) designation under better consideration.

This is a new TiVo and a new SP. I imagine in time, these 3:05 AM "repeats" won't record as they fall under the 28-day rule.