Cable TV channels you wish you had

[mvd]

Cable companies often stiff their customers because of a lack of competition! And it's really bad that my cable TV provider, Comcast, still doesn't have C-Span 2 or PCN (Pennsylvania Cable Network) in my area. Comcast is a big company!

What channels are you getting shortchanged of?

[hollywood926]

1. None, but I can think of several I wish I didn't have....

the religious channels, the Spanish channels, the shopping channels, FOX News.

[tjwmason]

8. I couldn't cope without Fox every now and then

We get it here in England too (the sattelite company 'Sky' is owned by News International); but they don't play adverts, instead they go to a rolling 'Foxcast' of weather covering areas too large to be worth paying attention (as in, rain in Asia) whilst playing the most irritating music possible.

But then you get a quarter hour of comic entertainment posing as news coverage, before another break to relax the muscles nearly strained in laughing too much.

I'd like to get some of C-Span as I'm an American politics junkie, and don't like the web-casting.

[freein NC]

19. Comedy Channel and C-Span

[tridim]

2. Just one (as far as I know), IFC

I refuse to upgrade to super premium digital cable until the Comcast monopoly is dissolved. There is competition where my parents live, and they pay the same price for 500 channels that I pay for about 60.

[Kire]

5. that, and Bravo

all I get now is Sundance

Edit: I can't watch Queer Eye or Inside the Actor's Studio, anymore

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. the anime channel

pensacola is quite conservative, but it DOES have a large anime fanbase and asian population and i know personally 75 people who have petitioned cox for the anime network without any luck

[tridim]

6. Wow, I didn't know there was such a channel

I'd love to have it. I guess 20 Home Shopping channels are more important to Comcrap cable's bottom line.

[7th_Sephiroth]

9. and 10 jesus(tm) channels

i have channels 13-24 blocked ecept for c-span and 2, all of em jesus or shopping channels

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. Is the Anime Channel an actual channel or just On Demand ?

I ask because when I had Time Warner here in Memphis, we had the Anime Network but it was On Demand Only. I liked because I'm definately a noob when it comes to Anime.

[7th_Sephiroth]

12. its a real channel

i have the full package cable and dont get it

[Huckebein the Raven]

16. Direct TV is adding new channels in '06 so hopefully they will add that

to our package. (we pretty much have everything too.)

[7th_Sephiroth]

22. thier website is

http://www.theanimenetwork.com/

[Huckebein the Raven]

23. Thanks n/t

[7th_Sephiroth]

24. go there

and you can request to your cable company for the anime network

[Huckebein the Raven]

28. Just did it...n/t

[Tafiti]

4. Free Speech TV.

I think Dish Network is the only provider that carries it, if I'm not mistaken.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

13. I get Free Speech TV

and my cable provider is comcast. I think it's shown on the public access channel.

[tyedyeto]

21. FSTV is great!!!!!!!!

Watch it all the time....have Dish satellite.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. After downgrading from digital to basic,

I miss Game Show Network, Biography and History International the most. Also, I forget the name of the Hanna-Barbara channel, but I wish I had that as well.

[MisterP]

10. Boomerang?

[Beware the Beast Man]

37. That's the one!

[Lex]

14. I'd like NASA TV

but we don't have it. We've got CSPAN 1, 2 and 3, but no NASA TV--where's the sense in that?

[Huckebein the Raven]

15. I wish I had the CBC, Al Jazeera, and the BBC. (not just BBC America)

and other programmming from Europe.

In Reality, I would like to Free Speech TV and an Anime Channel.

That's I can think of because I have just about every channel Direct TV offers right now and have all the ones I like to watch.

[tyedyeto]

17. Wish I could have Sundance and OLN

Got Sundance for a weekend once thru Dish and watched several shows.

OLN I would like only when the big bike tours ore on....wouldn't pay to upgrade the satellite for just 3 or 4 months a year for one station.

[OhioBlue]

18. C-Span2 - I have Armstrong Cable.

[Kire]

26. I get C-Span 1, and C-Span 3,but not 2

I don't know why that is.

[benny05]

35. I have C-SPAN 1 & 2, but Not 3

I would like C-SPAN 3

Also the golf channel. And I wish Howard Dean would start his own tv show or create a channel called the Progressive Channel.

I saw something about Foxblocker--where you can block Fox News? I don't mind Fox News, I just want to block Hannity (sorry Colmes, but you have been wimping out), O' Reilly, and Cavuto's shows. They are nicknames of the formal name Richard.

I'd also like a v-chip that knocks any show that Ann Coulter decides to be a guest on. :puke:

[TheMightyFavog]

20. BBC and BBC America in my dorm.

All of them here at home.

Living in the country sucks. I miss my Iron Chef.

However, I have one more week of this shit before I go back on the 23rd. I hope I don't go fucking insane.

Noggin would be cool if they still did reruns of old school Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

[Lenape85]

25. At school, I wish they'd replace Faux News with TV Land

[Taverner]

27. The Horror Channel

For a Horror affectionado like myself that would be a godsend. That is, if they didn't edit the flicks.

[HereSince1628]

29. TV5 would be nice. It would bring the French news

I figure that is as close to criticism of Bush as any channel potentially available is likely to get.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Free Speech TV, World Link, the REAL BBC (not BBCAmerica) and

TVJapan.

I don't want much, do I?

[Left Is Write]

31. I wish I had Game Show Network. Yeah, yeah, yeah -

I have "GSN - The Network For Games." Blah, blah, blah.

I want the Game Show Network I had when I signed on for the bloody satellite in '98.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

32. Free Speech tv n/t

[Blue Gardener]

33. DIY

I would have to upgrade my cable package to get it.

[Joe Chi Minh]

34. I wish I had

the Biography Channel. It would surely be one of the most interesting of all.

[Telly Savalas]

36. Gol TV, FOX Sports World, and ESPN

Canada rocks, but TSN (Canada's analogue of ESPN) rarely has college hoops. :(

[MrScorpio]

38. European channels

Particularly all Dutch ones.

RTL, Veronica, and etc

Oh.. I can

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