Help! TV is automatically switching to FOX News

[footinmouth]

WTF is going on. I normally have the MSNBC lineup on at night. Started during Hardball and continues now. Three times now it has switched me to Fox News. I don't want to be there. I don't have any cats to change the remote and the dog is sound asleep.

Is somebody tiring to make sure I am getting all the Benghazi news? Is Fox trying to inflate their ratings by making sure I watch?

Edit: I do not know how to fix typos on the iPad. "Tiring" should be "trying". I hate typos.

[shenmue]

1. Call an exorcist

Clearly, your tee vee is possessed.

[alphafemale]

2. Do you live in an apartment by any chance?

That would be my only guess.

Can you go into parental controls and just block FOX?

[handmade34]

4. ^

I live on the road and this thing happens sometimes in hotels... weird

[winter is coming]

5. Usually right before blood starts seeping out of the walls, right? n/t

[handmade34]

6. you may laugh

[Squinch]

3. Have you been very, very bad lately, and maybe God is punishing you?

[rug]

7. Mine keeps switching to Cinemax after dark.

[Politicalboi]

8. I'm offended for cats

Everyone knows cats are innocent of all things cats.

[Make7]

9. how to fix typos on the iPad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=0&v=ezG99ZMRe4Q

[footinmouth]

23. Thank you.

Did not know I could just replace the word.

[MohRokTah]

10. Cool story bro. eom

[WillowTree]

11. If you live in multiple-family housing.......

.....an apartment or condo, for instance, the problem is probably that someone in a unit close to yours has a cable or satellite receiver with a remote that's programmed to the same frequency as yours. When they change their channel, it changes yours, as well.

The easy fix would be to call your cable or satellite company and have them tell you how to re-program the frequency in your own box and remote.

I took a different approach when that happened to me. I kept finding my box turned on when I knew I had turned it off and sometimes the channel would change when I was watching, as you described. When that happened, I got into a most enjoyable channel changing duel with the offending neighbor. Sometimes it would go on for 10 to 15 minutes or more until s/he would give up. Ultimately, after playing that little game a few times, they apparently got their own frequency changed.

Childish? Certainly!! But it was kinda fun, too. 8-)

[GoneFishin]

12. LOL. Pretty clever. (Lazy, but clever) nt

[WillowTree]

17. Lazy nothin'!

Would have been a lot faster and easier to just make the call and change my remote. My way was way more challenging.

[drm604]

19. Are there remotes that use radio?

I thought that they were all infrared these days?

[WillowTree]

20. Sure there are.

I have a two-tuner DVR in my bedroom that feeds the TV in that room and the one here in my study, as well. The remote that I keep in the bedroom is infrared and controls tuner #1 connected to the bedroom TV. The second one, which I keep in here, operates on radio frequency so that I can control tuner #2, which is connected to the TV in here.

[JaneyVee]

13. RUUUUUUUUUUUN!

[Nine]

14. There is nothing wrong with your television set.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – Fox News.

[Control-Z]

15. Change the frequency on your remote.

You likely have a neighbor using the same (frequency) as yours.

[Rod Beauvex]

16. This is normal.

You just have to argue with your neighbor about who has to move their television set.

Have you noticed any ghosts appearing from your set?

[Brigid]

18. It's coming from inside the house!!

[951-Riverside]

21. Its the gang stalkers, sometimes they hide in couches and change the channel to mess with your head

They use radio waves to read your mind and figure out where you're going. I was on the highway and there were about 50 gang stalkers following me and the air force was spraying chemicals overhead but they're not gonna stop me from voting for Rand Paul in 2016.

[footinmouth]

22. Thanks for the laughs

LOL I think the suggestion for an exorcist was my favorite.

I'm not in an apartment and never had this happen before. It didn't happen again after I posted. Hope it doesn't happen again. Fox is toxic.

[Eleanors38]

24. My ancient Sony Trinitron developed an immunity to that.

That's why I keep it. And the fucker won't break!