[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
To support the programmatic exchange of references to television shows, Television System Services (TSS) has a data format to specify television shows, called a show reference. Show references are strings that you can use to specify a single broadcast of a show, recurring broadcasts, or a time and a channel that can be matched to a broadcast at a later time.
You create a show reference by calling either the ITelevisionServices::MakeLocalBroadcastSchedule or ITelevisionServices::MakeRemoteBroadcastSchedule method of the ITelevisionServices interface, passing a task trigger object. To create a show reference for a recurring broadcast, you must pass an ambiguous trigger to the ITelevisionServices methods.
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Note The description of the show reference format is for debugging purposes only. This format may change in future versions of Broadcast Architecture. Developers should compose and parse show references using the methods of the ITelevisionServices interface.