Assume you have all network channels (including WB, UPN, etc.) and PBS.
My pics:
*Comedy Central]/I] (just for Jon Stewart, who will one day get over this hetero phase he’s going through and come lift me up where I belong)
CNN- the main one- while I don’t pretend it’s objective it does have pretty pictures
History Channel- the least pandering of the “educational” channels (which isn’t saying a lot- they still have the “Did Nazi UFOs Create the Sphinx” documentaries, but not quite as many), I’d keep it for now just for the “videogame” battle reenactment program.
I want The History Channel from like seven years ago. I’m tired of all the Modern Marvel bullshit and the fifteen hundredth repeat on Hitler’s sex life. More Romans, Byzantines, Mongols, Greeks, and Aztecs please.
I’d also take Starz for the movies. They seem to have the most movies I’m interested in.
And as my third, I’d have to pick… um… SpikeTV? It has TNG, DS9, and will have VGR next year. I hate the channel otherwise but until I have the DVDs, I have to watch it to get my fix.
If we can time travel, I’ll take The Learning Channel from ten years ago when they were more likely to show a documentary on the building of Crusader’s castles than how to redecorate them for $1,000.
The Weather Channel - I have a strange addiction to Storm Stories
Too many contenders for 3rd place… probably either the Discovery Channel (although they have wayyyy too much “live birth” stuff on these days), CourtTV, or whatever that TV Land one is.
Damn…I’ve only got a set of rabbit ears that came with the TV. I get two stations, ABC and NBC.
Sometimes if I’m lucky I might get UPN on UHF27.
I get all the regular channels and THREE of my choice? Damn…a good movie channel would be nice. Maybe one that has some westerns too. I’ll take that.
There used to be one, I think it was TNN?
Gotta have a history channel and something science, like discovery?
Yeah, that’d do. Hell, I could get by with JUST those three.
editorial
It’s been several years since I had cable. I still remember that despite having dozens of channels, it seemed like there was never anything on. I was at my brother’s the other day…big huge ass TV with surround and DVD’s and satellite and etc etc…$5K worth of entertainment, hundreds of channels…there wasn’t a damned thing on worth watching. Unless you wanna pay per view.
He pays 'em 50 bucks a month now. Why in the hell’s he gotta pay more?
damned shame tv’s not better used :smack:
and…umm…those are really the only cable channels I watch, other than the occaisonal flipping through and catching something I like…so I’ll say Discovery Channel, cause I do enjoy Mythbusters.
