Patent ID: 8661472

Claim:
A method for providing media guidance with a plurality of media sources, the method comprising: storing, using a hardware processor, a plurality of media content listings corresponding to a plurality of media content items, wherein the plurality of media content items are provided by a content source; determining, using the hardware processor, a subset of media content listings for presentation to a user, wherein the subset of media content listings includes one or more of the plurality of media content listings identifying, using the hardware processor, one or more alternate sources of media content items, wherein each of the one or more alternate sources is different than the content source determining without user intervention, using the hardware processor, for each of the subset of media content listings each media content listing in the subset of the plurality of media content listings, an availability of a media content item from each of the one or more alternate sources that corresponds to the media content listing; causing, using the hardware processor, the subset of media content listings to be presented to the user; concurrently with causing the subset of media content listings to be presented, causing, using the hardware processor, a selectable alternate source indicator is to be presented within at least one of the subset of media content listings adjacent to information identifying the corresponding media content item in response to determining that the corresponding media content item is available from at least one of the one or more alternate sources of media content; receiving, using the hardware processor, a selection of the alternate source indicator; and initiating, using the hardware processor, presentation of the corresponding media content item using an available alternate source upon receiving the selection of the alternate source indicator.