I'm Sfaying At A Hotel In The Middle Of Wisconsin &.....

[global1]

the cable TV channels they offer for cable news is only Fox & CNN. No MSNBC. Hmmmm..... I wonder why?

[MineralMan]

1. Ask at the desk. Complain.

Send email to the hotel chain headquarters. Nobody on DU can do any more than that.

If you're dissatisfied with the service at a hotel, complain to the hotel. If enough people do that, they'll change their policies.

[whistler162]

2. Consider yourself lucky....

you do have in door plumbing don't you?

[MindPilot]

3. Do you want news or to complain about the amenities?

Because if you want news, you obviously have a computer.

But to answer your question, while we would like to think the hotel management blocked it because of their deep involvement in the the vast right wing conspiracy, it is probably much more likely that the particular feed they are buying doesn't have it. Maybe they found not enough people watched it--or other pieces of that package--to make it worth paying for. Hotel chains, like the rest of us, get their cable content in packages.

Generally I treat hotel TV the same way as the bible in the nightstand...I don't look at it.

[GoneOffShore]

12. Ah, the bible in the nightstand. I give it a "Sir Ian McCullen"

Better still if there's two. Twice the fun.

[Blue Owl]

4. WalkerVision

Hobble any opposing voices -- it's the new Koch-American way...

[Laffy Kat]

5. That happened to my family many years ago.

We were at a convention and the hotel only offered Fox and CNN. We complained to the front desk and then checked out and went next door. It was a nicer place and cheaper, too.

[Snotcicles]

6. I could be blocked by a previous guest or management. Go into channel setup and look. nt

[charmay]

7. Some hotels do listen.

I stayed every few months at the same hotel and complained every time about not having MSNBC. Thankfully others must have done the same because it finally got it. Of course they could have just switched tiers or providers but I like to think that it was my complaints.

[Greybnk48]

8. What motel chain? We had a similar experience in Ohio

less than a month ago. In that case only CNN and 3 or 4 ESPN's. We made an emergency weather stop at a Days Inn, which we affectionately referred to as Casa Del Toenail.

FYI, I'm from Wisconsin and we do tend to have pockets of wingnuttery sort of like chancres on the state. Caution: You may be in a hot spot.

[Ellipsis]

9. It's not the hotel...The cable company took it off the basic cable package

[Blue_Tires]

10. Just watch the Spice Network instead...

[snooper2]

11. get out of that state as fast as you can!

They will try to keep you!

They have weird ways you don't want to know about!

[GoneOffShore]

13. As long as it's not a Marriot.

No money to Mormon's.

[Boom Sound 416]

14. Why? I don't get it.