What is your default channel?

[Not_Giving_Up]

You know, there's nothing on the brazillion channels out there, so you park it on something that won't annoy you while you are online, or cleaning the house, or cooking dinner. What channel do you park on?

My husband parks on the History Channel...I'll park on CNN or C-Span, depending on what's happening. More likely, I'll throw in a season of West Wing on DVD.

[KitchenWitch]

1. CNN

[Chipper Chat]

2. MSNBC

except when Rita Cosby comes on. I almost break a leg tripping over furniture to switch the channel.

[patrice]

3. Turner Classic Movies

[long_green]

28. Mine too

pickings getting mighty slim on the tube.

[Blue_Tires]

4. one of the following:

1. Fox Sports World
2. Speed Channel
3. NFL Network (when in season)
4. Whatever baseball game is on, during the season

But up here in my room, my radio is always on ESPN Radio

[tkmorris]

5. Fox Soccer Channel

Or, in a pinch, GolTV.

[Common Sense Party]

16. Dangit, don't make me come over there

in a fit of jealousy!

You have GolTV? And Fox Soccer. You're my hero.

Can I come over, for like, a month?

Just during World Cup.

Then I promise I'll leave.

I have no cable. My life sucks.

[tkmorris]

20. Come on by

Especially during the World Cup. It'd be nice to watch a match with someone who understands that yelling a lot is perfectly normal, and is not a sign of a psychotic episode.

:toast:

[Common Sense Party]

38. Where are ya? I'd love to...

...but doubt I could get away.

I lived in Argentina for two years. Screaming is the ONLY way to announce a futbol game!

[ticapnews]

21. Same here

I remember watching English Premiere League on Sports Channel when I was a kid. Of course, back then Crystal Palace and QPR were in the premiere league, so things have changed a little :P

Can't wait for the World Cup. I wonder if anyone will even score a goal against Brazil...

[LSK]

6. CSPAN if the Senate or House is in session

Sometime I find it useful to just turn off the TV.

[Not_Giving_Up]

9. Turn it off??

Mine never stops...My husband sleeps in the living room, and if you turn off the TV, he just wakes up, turns it back on, and goes back to sleep.

[LSK]

13. tie him to a chair and turn it off

See what happens then? :P

[Not_Giving_Up]

15. Ha!

That's OK, he can sleep.

[blonndee]

7. CNN n/t

[SofaKingLiberal]

8. The Science Channel

[Lady Effingbroke]

18. Yes! The Science Channel is one of the only channels which has no

"paid programming". Works great with my midnight-8 a.m. viewing schedule (I'm either at school or work the rest of the time).

[DanCa]

10. nick at night seriosuly murphy browns comming on.

Other than that it is usally TBS.

[benny05]

11. C-SPAN 1

Mainly for Washington Journal...

[Acryliccalico]

12. CNN because it repeats so much

that you don't have to pay any attention to it. :kick:

[AndyTiedye]

14. My CD Collection

>You know, there's nothing on the brazillion channels out there,

a whole lot of nothing most of the time

>so you park it on something that won't annoy you

But having the TV on in the background usually DOES annoy me.

>while you are online,

itunes!

>or cleaning the house, or cooking dinner.

CDs.

[Brundle_Fly]

17. Hockey anywhere

but I am canadian, and it is my duty.

[leftstreet]

19. THE FOOD CHANNEL !!!111111

It's like porno to me. Yum, yum, yum.

I get most of my news from the Internets. I don't know how people can stand to watch most TV programming. Every time I try to get news, I channel-surf through so much crap I just give up.

[tenshi816]

22. CNN International

and At the Races (UK horse racing channel).

Because I watch CNN International in the UK, it was only after discovering DU about 18 months ago that I realized how different it is from CNN in the States.

I tend to switch between news and racing all day long with side trips into the Discovery Channel or the History Channel.

[AntiCoup2K4]

23. Usually it's XM radio rather than TV

Very little worth watching on TV anymore, but I've been known to leave the Xm going all day. Air America obviously being one of the favorites. Or Fungus 53, the punk channel. Or Deep Tracks 40 for some classic rock. And every once in a while just picking some channel at random and see how long I can stand it. Most have been successful except for the Opera channel and "America Right". Couldn't take more than 30 seconds of either.

[tjwmason]

24. Don't park.

Background tends to be either a C.D. or (less frequently) B.B.C. Radio3.

[Omphaloskepsis]

25. I don't have cable... so...

OPB
http://www.opb.org/

[Spider Jerusalem]

26. CD or radio...

assuming I feel the need to listen to anything. People who leave the television on when they aren't actually watching it annoy me intensely, and hearing the inane drivel that most television programming consists of for very long would send me mad within a week.

Not to mention that I have central auditory processing disorder; I am unable to selectively filter my auditory input. From my perspective there's no such thing as "background noise"; it's all in the foreground (even if it's too faint for most other people to hear at all). So I tend to opt for silence as often as not.

[LittleClarkie]

27. TLC, esp. when What Not To Wear is on

or Bravo. I quite enjoy Operation Runway and am feeling quite inspired by The Biggest Loser.

[bertha katzenengel]

29. anywhere an episode of Law & Order is showing

NBC
TNT
TBS
USA

also like Discovery Health, PBS for The American Experience and like programs, Animal Planet.

[Jokerman]

30. Off

I can't stand to have a TV on for "background noise". If I don't find anything worth paying attention to, I turn it off.

[Rhiannon12866]

31. Usually CNN. But I often escape by turning on The Food Network.

I'm not tempted to yell at Rachael or Tyler or Mario nearly as often as I am at Wolf Blitzer!:grr:

[Deja Q]

32. "VIDEO2"

That's the name my TV gives for the 2nd external input leads. It connects to my DVD player. :D

[ZombieNixon]

33. Comedy Central.

Apart from TDS and Stephen Colbert, I barely ever watch TV.

[Squatch]

34. Fine Living...I love watching the Thirsty Traveller

[LostinVA]

35. VH-1

[Initech]

36. Comedy Central or HBO

And I occasionally watch Fox for new eps of Family Guy and Arrested Development (if it's on!) but other than that, I avoid network TV like the plague.

[MrScorpio]

37. Sci-Fi

Then C-Span, HBO, Cartoon and Comedy Central

[Fox Mulder]

39. CNN.

Mainly when I'm surfin' the web or cleaning my apartment.

I'll park it on Fuse if there's music videos playing too.

[Rhiannon12866]

40. CNN is usually mine, as well, but, lately, they've been almost as bad as

FOX. I often find myself shouting at Blitzer, but Jack Cafferty's presence, and recent comments, make his show watchable.:grr:

Nice to see you, my friend!:hi:

[Cats Against Frist]

41. When I had cable, it was the Food Network, or VH-1 Classic

Now, my default channel is a 4-year-old who never stops talking.

[Floogeldy]

42. Court TV - Turner Classic Movies

:)

[UncleSepp]

43. ABC... it's the only channel that comes in on my TV