If you could get rid of ONE cable channel (NOT Fox News!!), what would it be??

[SmileyBoy]

I mean, just shut the damn thing down for good, and never have it pollute America's glowboxes ever again??

I would pick the Disney Channel. I can't stand more than 5 seconds of that shit without putting the TV on mute. Surprisingly, I can last a minute or so watching it on mute without sound. The WORST kid actors and musicians in America. All of them hit the big-time because Mommy or Daddy is either rich or a celebrity (i.e. The star of one of the shows is Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter). And the producers of the shows seem to serve a nice heaping helping of home-cooked crack to each kid who appears on a show or promo (which is 100 percent of the time). They always sound like they're about to orgasm in front of America. On every single show, it's all fake, overdramatic acting with NO subtlety. This network thinks kids are idiots, and they treat them as such.

And where the FUCK do they originally come up with all the god-awful shit they transmit on that channel?? I thought that shit was lame when it came out around 17 years ago when I was 8. I was too busy watching TMNT and Garfield and Friends to care about anything made by a company who's most famous character I stopped liking when I was 4. I saw the Mickey Mouse ears on the channel's premiere, and I said, "Fuck this." 58 is the number of the devil to me, because it's that shitty channel number on my cable.

What about you??

(NOTE: I basically did this as an excuse to rant about something, thanx.:7)

[matcom]

1. The Hitler Channel

[Critters2]

I don't think we get that. On Medicaom, Kinda surprising.

Maybe you have to have Digital.

[KitchenWitch]

2. TBN

Trinity Broadcast Network.

[Critters2]

6. I have all of the "Christian" channels blocked. Except EWTN

I have a secret crush on Raymond Arroyo.

[youthere]

20. Every time I think I have them all blocked...

another one pops up...it's like trying to kill cockroaches.

[Critters2]

22. It's true. We seem to have two new ones. But I kind of enjoy watching this chick

http://www.pastormelissascott.com/

She seems to be on 24/7 on one channel. I keep watching, waiting for her to make some real point, but she just goes off on tangent after tangent about linguistic subleties in the Greek and Hebrew.

But REALLY entertaining!!

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Didja know she was a porn actress

before she married Dr. Scott?

[Critters2]

24. No!!!!! I'd never heard of her until she showed up on my TV

She does seem to grasp the languages, though I must admit I forgot all my Greek as soon as I passed the final--so she could be making it all up.

A porn star you say. Ya know, I think I could see that, now that you mention it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. I googled her awhile back

because she's hawt 'n' stuff. Found several references to her previous career.



No pics, though. x(

[ForFuxakes]

28. ROTFLMAO

[Nicole]

3. Speed

I have no interest in car racing. Or motorcycle races. Or restoration projects for either of the two.
It's a complete waste of space on my tv. :puke:

Fuel would be a close second. :P

I do have both of those on my cable block list. It's fun when guy friends channel surf looking for them & can't find any of them. :rofl:

[terrya]

4. The Golf Channel

I can't believe I pay for that pointless channel.

[Awsi Dooger]

42. I'd pay full price for cable if all I got was the Golf Channel

By far the most fascinating sport ever invented, in terms of physical and mental conflicts. Last Sunday was a treat, watching Mickelson battle his demons over the short putts and flop chips, and then the failures causing him to press and impact his driver over the final holes.

My pick would be any channel that's showing baseball, the ultimate example of group loitering.

[itsmesgd]

5. EWTN or WE

the catholic channel. They have one show called Saturday Night, that I always mistake for SNL on the guide and click on it.

WE...come on. Do I need to see another Meredith Baxter- Birney movie.

[Critters2]

7. We just started getting LMN

All Meredith Baxter Birney movies all the time.

[Initech]

8. Easy one - The E! Network

Yeah, sure, you could credit Fox with the merging of tabloid journalism and 24/7 news networks, but there's no one who caters to the papparazzi more than E!.

First off, any network that employs that empty suit fuckin' corporate shill Ryan Seacrest deserves to have their license revoked.

Second, celebrity worship is not a religion (no, L. Ron Hubbard, it isn't). I dont care what everybody else says. We do not, nor should we, care about Britney Spears shaving her head. Britney Spears stopped being relevant 4 fucking years ago.

Third, any network that gives air time to Joan Rivers and pays her huge sums of money to stand at the red carpet of (insert name of self-gratifying award show here) should have their license revoked.

[Seabiscuit]

9. The Disney Channel is good for one thing:

The early morning cartoon shows for infants. My son loves them.

[Seabiscuit]

10. CNN

I'd toss in MSNBC except I'd never give up watching Keith Olbermann.

[SmileyBoy]

11. Whooz-a-jigga-WHAAAAA????

Come again?? CNN???

[Seabiscuit]

12. You got that right. CNN.

Their talking heads make me want to puke almost as much as the Fox version.

[itsmesgd]

15. CNN is now recycling old Faux news hags

plus Wolfie is a tool.
I miss the days where car chases trumped ANS "breaking news"

[Blue-Jay]

13. I dunno...One of those "chick channels"...

O2, Hallmark, HGTV....


































THE ARISTOCRATS!

[Deja Q]

14. The Billing Station...

Cable ought to be free for all. :7

[ChoralScholar]

16. HSN/QVC

Or any one of the 20 shopping channels that come with my Dish Network.

[ChoralScholar]

17. Oh yeah, I forgot

Bloomberg

Too much damn info on the TV screen.

[SmileyBoy]

18. I think the box where they actually show stuff takes up about 20 pixels now.

They show everything from the current solar wind conditions to last night's NAIA women's basketball scores on that screen.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Every fucking sports channel.

I'd replace them with someone that would enhance life in America, but no one would watch it, so might just as well get rid of the sports networks and not replace them with anything.

[dysfunctional press]

32. same here- plus the religious channels and the home-shopping networks.

in my domain, they already do not exist.

[Initech]

21. Another one - MTV

Honestly, MTV hasn't been relevant since 1986. They show all this stupid bullshit on the station that has nothing to do with music, then they started airing Total Request Live and it all went straight to hell.

Oh, they're also one of the two networks responsible for turning my beloved county into the laughing stock of the country with horseshit like "Laguna Beach" and "My Super Sweet 16". Argh, how I loathe that channel.

[ForFuxakes]

27. Here! Here!

I can't stand MTV anymore. And I totally agree with how it has spawned a generation of morons!

Started out as a good idea...gee How about Music Videos 24/7 then...WTF...nothing but drama!

[Gatchaman]

25. TLC

Used to be The Learning Channel, now it's just crap. Midgets. Tattoo Parlors. Bikers. A demeaning parade of human oddities.

No offense to midgets, maybe a little offense to tattoo people. Bikers? Wellll.....

[ashling]

29. I'd start with the Shopping Channels - All of them

Then I'd move to the Televangel channels.

[jakefrep]

30. Headline News...

....it's really gone to seed since they started going with all talk shows in the evening. And nothing would please me more than to put Nancy Grace, Glenn Beck, and those entertainment bozos in the unemployment line.

[femmocrat]

31. That religious channel. Why am I paying for that?

[Generic Brad]

35. I agree. I don't want to subsidize Mother Angelica any more,

I am a hard ass.

[TheMightyFavog]

33. INSP

Or as we UWSP Students call it, "Crazy kooky channel 54."

[Danger Mouse]

34. Your favorite channel, just to watch you weep.

:)

[philosophie_en_rose]

36. TBN: Does Jan Crouch really need any more money?

How many pink wigs does she need? Do we really want to fund her quest to give a white baby doll to all the starving orphans in Africa? :eyes:

Close runner up: MTV. I knew it well, Horatio. A channel of plentiful music videos and only occasional Real World. Now it must sadly be put out of our misery.

[Zookeeper]

37. Did you happen to catch Disney's "High School Musical"?

I've always made a point of leaving the room when my daughter watches it. (It sounds AWFUL!)

Guess what? My daughter was just cast in her high school production of "High School Musical"....

I'll just kill myself now.

(Although I did volunteer to help build sets.)

To answer your question: I don't like paying for the religious or sports channels. I'd much rather replace them with Sundance or Independent Film Channel.

[Floogeldy]

38. Court TV

:smoke:

[REP]

39. ESPN

[pstokely]

40. Home Shopping channels, Golf channel

[Broken_Hero]

41. The Gold Channel, and the Speed Channel....nt