The buttmunch who owns the PAX affiliate here recently sold it…jerk! Now there’s a channel that shows nothing but soccer games in Spanish. (No offense meant against Hispanics, I’m bilingual myself) Great, there are already fifty dozen Spanish channels here. Considering how little I watch TV, I enjoyed PAX shows. Most of what’s on the networks is pure crap.
I thought most of what PAX showed was reruns of NBC.
Could be worse. It could be all Spanish soap operas, or all Spanish variety shows. You could also be in El Paso, where there are about three Spanish language broadcasters for every English broadcaster, on both TV and radio.
Oh…
…kay…
Well, they do show Candid Camera reruns. I can understand missing that…
A pax on all their houses!
There’s nothing wrong with that, lots of people experiment with being bilingual in college.
And, you know, Supermarket Sweep is pretty fun, too.
Pax!? The channel that starts showing paid programming (infomercials) at 9PM? It seems like all they show anymore is paid programming.
You can have mine.
I had a broken tv that only got channel 6–PAX. I took it as evidance that it was posessed and gave it to my brother. 
Oooh, I love Spanish soap operas. When I worked an overnight shift, I used to come home at 4 AM and watch an hour of this Spanish soap opera on Telemundo. I learned how to speak halfway decent Spanish by watching it.
And I’d be happy to pass along my Pax TV to anyone. I never watch it.
Ava
[hijack]I get PAX…as far as I know there are no PAX stations within a 100 miles of where I live…I don’t get cable
So why in the world should I get PAX?
Not exactly a mystery for the ages but puzzling nonetheless[/hijack]
So you don’t think I posted ONLY to hijack the OP I watch PAX occasionally…they have a neat game show(offhand I can’t think of the name but it’s the one where one person gets the answers to the poll-like questions everyone is asked and the contestants have to figure out who is getting the answers)
The PAX network actually have some good dramas and movies. But I just saw in yesterday’s paper that PAX is available now only to cable subscribers in this area. Well they can kiss my ass! :mad: I don’t particularly wish to pay $30 a month (basic cable), that’s a damn ripoff.
Hey - PAX has Bonanza. At least in the NW Chicago 'burbs. I get Springer on Fox at 2:00 PM, Bonanza, The Lost Episodes, on Hallmark at 3:00 PM, Bonanza on PAX at 4:00 PM, news on Channel 7 (not my choice - hubby MAKES me watch it - I prefer NBC) at 5:00 PM, and then From Martha’s Kitchen on FoodTV at 5:30 - does it even GET any better that??? On Monday’s, follow that up with Monster House at 7:00 PM (oh man, this show kicks ass - I saw my first one today) and my Village Council meetings on local access??? Lately, I’m in TV Heaven.
Yeah, I know. I don’t ask for much.
They probably have a sattelite station that broadacasts the signal in your area. It increases their coverage, their potential Arbitron ratings, and thus the amount they can charge for ad revenue.
Mockingbird
The weird thing about it is when I check what’s on through TV Guide online for my area(telling them my zip and that I only get broadcast stations) they do not have PAX even listed…just the major stations and yet Pax comes in better than any of the others
BTW I do not get sattelite tv either
It is not one of those odd atmospheric phenomenons either…PAX comes in perfect EVERY day
The PAX cable station in my area, we don’t have a local over the air affiliate, is infomercials from 11pm until 5pm the next day. What a waste. Pretty pathetic for a channel partly owned by NBC, and that was supposed to be a seventh network that would be on American cable systems due to “must carry” TV regulations.
We already have a local independent broadcast station that has always been pitiful, literally the laughing stock of the area, but has now gone to about 23 hours a day of infomercials, broken up by a little satellite religious programming. But they also burn up a position on our cable system as well due to these same rules.
Our cable system has a local programming channel of its own (city council meetings, local sports review shows, a local public affairs show that is really just a series of commercials for area businesses). Again mostly infomercials with no more than three hours a day of actual programming, usually that public affairs show rerun three times in one day.
There’s very little of PAX’s prime time programming that interests me, but at least when we still had Bonanza and a few other reruns on in the afternoon it gave the impression of being an actual channel.
So you could have my PAX TV if you wanted it, we already get more than enough infomercial channels around here as it is.
Odd…here, they fill that slot with something called “Worship”, which is basically pleasing nature scenes (they reveal the locations as well) with a CCM/Gospel soundtrack, interrupted occasionally by a VJ of sorts who talks about positive, inspirational things.
Sorry…thought you said “5 am”.