Which stations would you add to your cable/satellite?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Inspired by ARWalden's thread...

I'd like Turner Classic Movies and the Baltimore networks back on my listings. It'd also be cool to get BBC News all the time; and if there was an Arts network, I'd love it.

All beer TV could be interesting... :D

How about you?

[grannylib]

1. I LOVE FSTV (free speech tv) on Dish network; I wish I got the DIY channel

and the History International channels

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. That sounds cool!

Maybe I need to look into DISH...

[grannylib]

7. FSTV is the best, Link is also a good station. You can get world news

that is not RW propaganda!!
Great documentaries and other stuff on FSTV.
Good little ten-minute short they've been airing lately called "Asscroft"

[GOPisEvil]

2. BBC America

I don't want to go through the expense of getting digital cable at this time. But I'd like BBC America.

Memo to Time Warner Austin: If you give me BBC America on my regular cable, I will let you take back Fox News and MTV. Two for one, whaddya say?

[terrya]

9. I second BBC America

Note to RCN: I'll GLADLY give up the Golf Channel for BBC America.

Please, for God's sake, PLEASE, swap the Golf Channel for BBC America.

[commander bunnypants]

3. dunno

i have to pay for sci-fi now and that channel kinda sucks. All airplanes all the time. The DNC network, Maybe some more international channels


DDQM

[Zinfandel]

5. Democracy Now and Free Speech TV (FSTV)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Add some and modify others

I'd add Free Speech TV and a Japanese station. I'd also revamp BBCAmerica so that it had more dramas and comedies instead of those idiotic "reality" shows like Changing Rooms and Ground Force. I mean, okay, one hour each per day, but back to back all day? :puke:

I'd also add an International Film Festival Channel to show all the wonderful films from around the world that dazzle audiences at the film festivals but never find a U.S. distributor. Sundance and IFC do that to some extent, but they rerun the same films too often.

[starroute]

8. I want CSPAN-2!

I think it's absolutely ridiculous that we don't get it as part of our cable package, considering all the crap we do get.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Wow...

That's one station I actually DO get!

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Democracy now, Radio left and air america, local Maine channels

[flamingyouth]

12. Put me down for TCM too!

We used to have it, then our stupid cable system decided we'd be better off with Tech TV TWICE on our system, for some unknowable reason! TCM is the only place that shows silent films on any sort of regular basis.

We might be moving soon, and that cable system carries it, so I will be happy to have it back. :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. We have AMC

Which used to be pretty good. It's sucked for several years now...especially since they started showing commercials. :(

[BlackVelvetElvis]

16. AMC calls them "intermissions"

Dumbed down is what I call it. Thank heavens for TMC, a class act channel. Who else would show obscure movies or silents.
I'd love BBC America or Ovation (arts and culture channel) added to my extended cable. I gotta get digital cable for those. Like I have $100 a month to pay for that.
I'll live. I don't watch much tv anyway.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Ovation is wonderful, but

they keep re-running the same few dozen programs. They seriously need to buy some new ones.

If you miss a show you want to see, don't worry, it will turn up the following week, or at least the following month.

[arwalden]

21. I Was Very Disappointed When AMC Changed To A Commercial Format

It was 'tolerable' when the commercials were IN BETWEEN movies... I could have lived with that.

I got more irritated when they started inserting one commercial in the middle of the movie (the intermission).

I rarely EVER watch them anymore with their current method of (what seems to be) progressively more frequent commercial breaks the further into the movie you go. --- One would almost think that they were trying to copy TNT or TBS.

-- Allen

Remember "Remember WENN"? I loved that show. It made me long to "return" to a time that I wasn't even a part of in the first place.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Remember WENN...

That was a great show! Do they still air it? I stopped watching when they went commercial. Also, it seems like most of the movies they show now are WWII flicks or westerns...both of which I can only take in small doses.

[arwalden]

24. Nope... Just Four Seasons

1996-1998 was it's first original run.

I seem to recall seeing repeats until 99 or 00 (I could be wrong)... but the show is nowhere to be found now.

I loved the costumes and hairstyles. So much attention was paid to detail and authenticity. It was fun to watch.

-- Allen

[Kool Kitty]

13. FSTV and BBC America.

[SoCalDem]

15. CBC and the "real" BBC

the BBC we get has mostly those inane "make-over" shows and silly variety and sit-coms..

I would love to have CNN-I instead of the C_rackheadNN that we currently have..

[U2Fanatic]

18. VH1 Classic

[CBHagman]

19. BBC America

I already have Turner Classic Movies and C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2, and C-SPAN 3.

[Zookeeper]

20. C-Span 2 and 3...

TCM, Bravo, Cartoon Network, Nick (I need SpongeBob!), Comedy Central (for The Daily Show), CNN (just because sometimes they are the only station covering certain events). However, I am unwilling to pay for the next level of cable service that would include those channels but also a whole heap o'junk that doesn't interest me.

[truthspeaker]

22. BBC America and C-SPAN-3

Actually I'd rather have the real BBC but I don't think that's an option.