diff --git a/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/changelog.txt b/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/changelog.txt
index 927fb194dd..a87c9e6055 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/changelog.txt
+++ b/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+125
+- fix download zipped content for epg data with epg_grab_file
+
 124
 - fix query url for imdb.com and thetvdb.com
 
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/package.mk b/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/package.mk
index 73887f6f04..3bf0a68bec 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/package.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ PKG_NAME="tvheadend42"
 PKG_VERSION="5bdcfd8ac97b3337e1c7911ae24127df76fa693a"
 PKG_SHA256="b562a26248cdc02dc94cc62038deea172668fa4c079b2ea4e1b4220f3b1d34f5"
 PKG_VERSION_NUMBER="4.2.8-36"
-PKG_REV="124"
+PKG_REV="125"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.tvheadend.org"
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/source/bin/tv_grab_file b/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/source/bin/tv_grab_file
index 10457a59b4..318927a03b 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/source/bin/tv_grab_file
+++ b/packages/addons/service/tvheadend42/source/bin/tv_grab_file
@@ -37,7 +37,14 @@ then
       exec "$XMLTV_LOCATION_SCRIPT"
     fi
   elif [ "$XMLTV_TYPE" = "WEB" ]; then
-    wget -qO - "$XMLTV_LOCATION_WEB"
+    case "$XMLTV_LOCATION_WEB" in
+    *.gz | *.bz2 | *.xz)
+        wget -qO - "$XMLTV_LOCATION_WEB" | zcat
+        ;;
+    *)
+        wget -qO - "$XMLTV_LOCATION_WEB"
+        ;;
+    esac
     exit 0
   fi
 fi