Sorry to revive an old thread, but I always wonder the same thing. For example, what would happen in this scenario tonight at 10pm?
Even though the local news is set to record at 10:15 pm, am I going to miss 15 minutes of the game? Will PTAT record until 10:15 or will it stop at 10:00?
Also, even if I set up a separate timer specifically for the Giants game and set it to record 60 minutes after the scheduled end time, the Hopper won't create a separate recording because it's a part of PTAT. I cannot tell you how many ends of games I have missed because of this PTAT.
Dish does a great job with the Hopper, but they really need to address ball games and PTAT. At the very least, allow us to add minutes at the end of our PTAT recording. Like 7pm to 11pm instead of ending at 10pm.