Holy frejoles, enforced exile from one's blog is not pretty. Comcast, those accursed avatars of chaos, visited early Tuesday, and the guy went up the pole to filter out all the good channels and leave us with 29 channels of network drivel. In the process, somehow he threw our DSL out of whack. They had to come back tonight to fix it. Thanks for everything, boys. Sorry you can't stay for dinner. Shall I count the number of hours we were disconnected? No, no, that would be 32 petty.
Say, if they were going to switch us to a limited package, why couldn't they let us pick the 29 channels we want? One wonders why that's not an option with cable companies yet. They could program our preferences into the system from the convenience of the home office, using much the same technology they use to fill pay-per-vi3w orders.
What would you pick, if you could pay for only your favorite channels? You already know what I would choose - all home decorating, all the time! Plus Bravo.
I'm babbling. Anyway!
Food TV, TLC, Court TV, CNN, AMC, Discovery Channel
I'm good with those.
Posted by: kristal | June 30, 2005 at 05:43 AM
A&E, network (I know, I know... the shame...) PBS, Bravo, Discovery, and I guess my kids could still have Disney.
Posted by: Jo | June 30, 2005 at 07:12 AM
Even better, how about Channels we would LIKE to see:
The "Reruns of 'Pensacola: Wings of Gold' 24 Hours A Day" Channel
The Gillian Anderson Channel
The NCAA Wrestling Channel (Don't ask, don't ever ever ask)
The American Symphony in Concert Channel
The Diamanda Galas Channel
The Movies of Stanley Kubrick In Proper LTBX Format Channel
The Alex Krycek Channel
The Cute Penguin and Otter Pics Channel
Posted by: Anthony | June 30, 2005 at 07:41 AM
Turner Classic Movies, HDTV1&2, HBO, Comedy Central, BBC America, Bravo, all other HD stations, Sports channels showing the Cubs games, Sundance & IFC, PBS, A&E, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and the Adult Alt Music station.
Stations I could do without: Lifetime, the Jewlery channel, QVC, Spike TV, SciFi channel and the USA network.
Posted by: Kathryn | June 30, 2005 at 07:54 AM
They stretch the really good channels over several packages so you'll buy as much as possible. Damn them. And damn extended basic.
Posted by: Kimberly | June 30, 2005 at 09:24 AM
Diamanda Galas and Alex Krycek?
That'd drive the termites out of the walls.
BTW - ala carte cable means investing in technology and equipment and the cable companies hate investing in technology and equipment.
The only two I'd be interested in would be The All Law and ORder Reruns Channel (aka TNT) and the All CSI Reruns Channel. Gala Vision would be nice since they have winter ball from Puerto Rico and lucha libre.
Posted by: pops | June 30, 2005 at 01:07 PM
There aren't a lot of channels I'd keep, strangely. I must confess to enjoying the History Channel from time to time, but I get weary of war. A&E can be either great or highly irritating. Nickolodeon? Disney? OK, they'd have to stay. I couldn't survive without the electronic babysitter sometimes. Shut up, I know it's wrong. But really! How did people do this parenting thing without a tube to strap them to once in a while?
Posted by: Snow | June 30, 2005 at 01:46 PM
All the high def channels- inHDTV2, Discover, PBS, Sports, HGTV, Movies (not subscriptions)
HGTV and clones
SCI-FI
Spike, turner, Encore, TNT, BRAVO, FX, UPN
CNN 1,2,3
Networks for sports and some shows
Cartoon, DIsney, ANimal planet, and nick
TV land
Posted by: BB | July 01, 2005 at 09:13 AM
First it was rides on Neighbor Bill's boat (I have to meet this guy--there's something very "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" about him [ie, he doesn't really exist]) now it's BB endorsing Spike TV. Something very very wrong here. Pam, have you checked BBs mushroom intake recently?
Posted by: Anthony | July 05, 2005 at 06:16 AM