Comcast DTV, Seattle
So I finally got around to hooking my TV up directly to the cable line, and set it to autoprogram. It found well over 400 channels, and I have the second most basic cable package they offer. Ugh. Turns out, a lot of them are music, and a lot of them are scrambled. But then there are some that are real but boring. Like, say, channel 105-1047 — that’s some Washington State TV channel where they talk about WA government. (Side note: Who thought it was a good idea to add dashes and extra numbers?! That’s 8 damn button pushes.)
There does not appear to be any record or listing describing what channel numbers correspond to what station. It’s kind of frustrating. When I first hooked it up, and was looking around, I happened upon channel 101-8, which was softcore porn. Hey, free porn, on the TV, who can beat that right? Well, I got tired of that in the background after a while, so I shut it off. The next day, it was gone. Gone the next few days as well. I had nearly given up until today when I went to 101-8 and sure enough, it was back — except now it was PBS Sprout. I simply refuse to jerk it to the Berenstain Bears.
If anyone has found a definitive listing of what numbers correspond to what shows, please post. :) Thanks.