{"id":22070,"date":"2015-08-10T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=22070"},"modified":"2015-08-09T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:55:12","slug":"newsletter-issue-819-300-channels-and-nothing-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2015\/08\/newsletter-issue-819-300-channels-and-nothing-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #819: 300 Channels and Nothing to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know the story. You wake up on a Sunday morning, turn on the \u201ctube,\u201d and rummage through many channels in search of something to watch. Since you have one of the higher tiers from your cable or satellite connection, you have plenty of listings. You may not have even heard of many of the channels, but you soldier on, catching snippets of unfamiliar shows while checking the Info screens to see if there\u2019s something, anything worth keeping on, even for background noise.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an unfamiliar scenario in the Steinberg household. While I\u2019ve scaled down the selection to keep the price down \u2014 with an eye towards the latest and greatest discount deals they are offering to keep my business \u2014 I ran into just this problem before I wrote this column. It was all so frustrating, but finally I selected reruns of \u201cLaw &amp; Order,\u201d and there are 465 episodes to be found. And I\u2019m not even including the spin-off shows.<\/p>\n<p>The rest? Well we aren\u2019t into sports that much (at least after the Dodgers left Brooklyn when I was very, very young). We have no need for children\u2019s shows since our one-and-only son is pushing 30, and there are no grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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