Method of and apparatus for optimal scheduling of television programming to maximize customer satisfaction

A method for providing an individual television program list, wherein television channels and corresponding time intervals of optimal programs among all the television programs are listed for each individual subscriber, comprising the steps of;

• obtaining subscriber taste data from a questionnaire;
• obtaining television program data by evaluating said subscriber taste data;
• using linear programming to obtain optimal program list data according to said subscriber taste data and said television program data;
• storing said optimal program list data on a hard disk;
• printing out an individual television list from said stored
• storing a subscriber's complaints in a personal computer at the location of the subscriber;
• inputting a subscriber's complaints about said printed out program list obtained from said personal computer to improve prediction reliability of a subsequent program list;
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• using a telephone line or the like, establishing bidirectional communications between the subscriber and a computer center for informing said computer center of said subscriber's complaints against a particular individual program list, and through said bidirectional communications link, automatically operating linear programming and sending from the computer center to the subscriber a new and more reliable individual television program list revised according to said complaints.