diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 490c3f1e..510f0b02 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -975,6 +975,7 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
  for adding a missing "Button$" for the Timer button and "Key$" in skinclassic.c
  for reporting a bug in handling the color button texts when switching from the
  'Schedule' menu of a channel without EPG info to the 'What's on now' menu
+ for reporting a bug in handling empty titles in cEvent::FixEpgBugs()
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 07ae0c51..bdc63970 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4620,7 +4620,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   actions in the context of the main program thread. Use this function with great
   care and only of you absolutely have to! See also PLUGINS.html.
 
-2006-04-21: Version 1.3.48
+2006-04-22: Version 1.3.48
 
 - Updated the GPL copies (thanks to Ville Skyttä).
 - Fixed several spelling errors (thanks to Ville Skyttä).
@@ -4639,3 +4639,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Modified the German OSD texts to be "less technical" (thanks to Andreas Brachold).
 - Extended the version number reported with the '-V' option to also show the
   current APIVERSION (suggested by Thomas Günther).
+- Fixed handling empty titles in cEvent::FixEpgBugs() (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg).
diff --git a/epg.c b/epg.c
index 0525008e..bc448cf8 100644
--- a/epg.c
+++ b/epg.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original version (as used in VDR before 1.3.0) written by
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  *
- * $Id: epg.c 1.71 2006/04/17 12:18:59 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.c 1.72 2006/04/22 12:02:47 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "epg.h"
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ void cEvent::FixEpgBugs(void)
   strreplace(description, '\x86', ' ');
   strreplace(description, '\x87', ' ');
 
-  if (!title) {
+  if (isempty(title)) {
      // we don't want any "(null)" titles
      title = strcpyrealloc(title, tr("No title"));
      EpgBugFixStat(12, ChannelID());