Patent ID: 7793321

Claim:
A method for obtaining a geographic-specific program guide, said method comprising: determining a geographic identifier for a computing device, said geographic identifier indicating a geographic location of the computing device; generating a request for a program listing for digital broadcast television channels, said request including the determined geographic identifier; sending the generated request to a server, wherein said server accesses a memory area storing programming listings for digital broadcast television channels and analog broadcast television channels, each of said digital and analog broadcast television channels having a call sign associated therewith, each of said programming listings describing content on one of the digital or analog broadcast television channels; and receiving, via a web service provided by the server, the requested program listing associated with the geographic location of the computing device, said received program listing comprising the programming listings for only the digital broadcast television channels that are available for the determined geographic identifier indicating the geographic location of the computing device, wherein the programming listing for at least one digital broadcast television channel of said digital broadcast television channels is unavailable in the memory area and wherein the received program listing includes, for the at least one digital broadcast television channel for which the programming listing is unavailable, a programming listing provided by a television station for an analog broadcast television channel corresponding to the at least one digital broadcast television channel as a function of the call signs of sad at least one digital broadcast television channel and said analog broadcast television channel.