diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 7d337a94..1158a487 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1626,6 +1626,7 @@ Thomas G
  for fixing converting arbitrarily formatted summary.vdr files
  for making the 'new' indicator in the Recordings menu kept up-to-date
  for reporting a crash when setting the time transponder in the Setup menu
+ for reporting a bug in the initial setting of the time transponder setup parameter
 
 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
  for his help in replacing the get/put_unaligned() macros from asm/unaligned.h with
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 31dc962c..5433ac6e 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4508,3 +4508,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added NULL checks to some strdup() calls in menuitems.c (suggested by Darren
   Salt).
 - Removed the unnecessary 'value' member from cMenuEditItem.
+- Fixed the initial setting of the time transponder setup parameter (reported
+  by Thomas Günther).
diff --git a/menuitems.c b/menuitems.c
index 1a362cc2..680ab10f 100644
--- a/menuitems.c
+++ b/menuitems.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menuitems.c 1.39 2006/04/14 10:02:18 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menuitems.c 1.40 2006/04/14 10:23:54 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menuitems.h"
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ eOSState cMenuEditChanItem::ProcessKey(eKeys Key)
 // --- cMenuEditTranItem -----------------------------------------------------
 
 cMenuEditTranItem::cMenuEditTranItem(const char *Name, int *Value, int *Source)
-:cMenuEditChanItem(Name, &number)
+:cMenuEditChanItem(Name, &number, "-")
 {
   number = 0;
   source = Source;