10 TV Channels that Don't Need to Exist

Do you really need all those television channels? If you sat down and examined your television viewing habits you might be surprised at what you learn about yourself.

I did this and found that I pay just over $100.00/month for my satellite television. For this fee I have access to approximately 250 channels. That’s quite a bargain until I considered that I only watch about 10% of those channels. Then I decided that there are some stations that do not even need to exist. Here is my Top 10 list of TV channels that don’t need to exist.

1. Dedicated sports channels: This one type of channel could easily take up the whole list, and then some. There’s only so many “sports” a person can watch.
2. Dedicated Weather channels: This one sits up on the top of the list so close with the sports channel that if there could be two Number 1 spots there would be two number 1 choices. I like to turn on the weather in the morning to see what the day is going to be like, and turn it on again in the evening to see what tomorrow is going to be like. Usually, when there is the threat of dangerous weather, the local channels interrupt programming and run crawlers so viewers have up-to-the-minute information and don’t need a weather channel.
3. Dedicated shopping channels: Ok, let’s give the Number 1 spot, THREE choices. I don’t know where to begin with this. Infomercials are bad enough, but to have dedicated shopping channels- I flip past as quickly as possible.
4. Political channels: The ones that show senators and congressmen sleeping in their seats while waiting for someone to get up and talk. Some even sleep while their colleagues are speaking. If the people in attendance can’t stay awake, how can the channel executives expect that a viewer will stay awake? I’ll read the newspaper or watch the nightly news when a decision has been made, instead.
5. Cartoons: All Day………… All Night………. We’ve All Seen them All…… from the time we were children, the constant chatter, and music and high pitched voices, oh how cute, on Saturday morning, not all day and all night.
6. Music channels: When I want to listen to music, I want to listen to music, not watch it on television. Give me the radio or iPod.
7. Some movie channels: Movie channels sound great, on the surface, until you realize that within a month, the same six movies are played something like 150 times. Ok, so I exaggerate, but I usually find that with a movie channel, they either don’t have a movie I want to watch, the movie I want to watch is on at all sorts of inconvenient times, and when I actually sit down to watch a movie, what’s showing is either a movie I’ve already seen or one I don’t care to see. I find the On Demand, or Pay-per-view or download services to be more accommodating to my viewing needs than a regular movie channel.
8. Dedicated religion channels: Sometimes I watch them briefly just to get a laugh. I find most televangelists to be so over-the-top with their dress and make-up and gestures, that it is hard to take their message seriously.
9. Soap channels: Having the soap’s available 24/7 is overkill, especially when you can miss your favorite soap for three months and nothing has changed. With all the technology today, recording and watching later is a better option.
10. Tabloid News: We have become a society of Peeping Tom’s and this station proves it. Not only do they look at people’s lives and invade their privacy, but they elaborate stories and make stuff up. This might earn ratings but at what cost?

So, there it is; my list of television waste. Your list will probably be different, but you have to agree, there are many channels that do not need to exist.

Taken From Cable TV Providers