diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index c42ce644..edb2c43a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3022,6 +3022,8 @@ Frank Neumann <fnu@yavdr.org>
  for adding support for "Satellite Channel Routing" (SCR) according to EN50607 ("JESS")
  for suggesting to make the Setup/CAM menu display which device an individual CAM
  is currently assigned to
+ for reporting a problem with the default return value of cEpgHandler::BeginSegmentTransfer()
+ in derived classes that don't implement this function
 
 Gerald Dachs <vdr@dachsweb.de>
  for reporting a problem with checking for minimum line length of 21 characters in
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 86c5015e..983f6714 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9012,3 +9012,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - When selecting a device/CAM combination for live viewing, CAMs that are known to decrypt
   the requested channel are now given a higher priority than prefering the primary device
   (reported by Christian Winkler).
+- Changed the default return value of cEpgHandler::BeginSegmentTransfer() to true, to
+  avoid problems with derived classes that don't implement this function (reported by
+  Frank Neumann).
diff --git a/epg.h b/epg.h
index 1341aa2e..949cd444 100644
--- a/epg.h
+++ b/epg.h
@@ -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.h 4.4 2017/04/02 11:22:21 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.h 4.5 2017/05/09 09:16:29 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __EPG_H
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ public:
   virtual bool DropOutdated(cSchedule *Schedule, time_t SegmentStart, time_t SegmentEnd, uchar TableID, uchar Version) { return false; }
           ///< Takes a look at all EPG events between SegmentStart and SegmentEnd and
           ///< drops outdated events.
-  virtual bool BeginSegmentTransfer(const cChannel *Channel, bool Dummy) { return false; } // TODO remove obsolete Dummy
+  virtual bool BeginSegmentTransfer(const cChannel *Channel, bool Dummy) { return true; } // TODO remove obsolete Dummy
           ///< Called directly after IgnoreChannel() before any other handler method is called.
           ///< Designed to give handlers the possibility to prepare a database transaction.
           ///< If any EPG handler returns false in this function, it is assumed that