If you:

• Have a hacked DirecTiVo (or hacked standalone TiVo),
• Use TivoWebPlus to manage recordings,
• Have a Season Pass for Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and
• Are annoyed at having to manually delete the rebroadcast showings of Countdown–especially now that there are two rebroadcasts every night–because the rebroadcasts are not properly marked as “repeats”,

You can add a filter (called a Blocking Pattern) to the Todo List which will automatically cancel recording the rebroadcasts. Here’s how:

• In TivoWebPlus, go to the /todo page and then click the “Title Blocklists and Blocking Patterns” link (/gbl_edit).
• In the right pane, add “Countdown+!17″ — that means “don’t record anything named ‘Countdown’ if it doesn’t start at 5:00 pm”. Readers in time zones other than Pacific should alter the time accordingly, e.g. “Countdown+!20″ for Eastern time.
• Click “Save Changes” and you’re done.

I hope this helps someone. I’m very pleased to no longer have to manually delete the rebroadcasts from my Playlist and Todo list.