Inauguration day, what channel to watch?

[someoneeelse]

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Ratings seems to be a more important fact to trump than sound policy. What channel should I watch and advise my friends to watch during the inauguration? If we all tune our TV’s into a different station in mass, it won’t matter that much. If we all tune into the same station it might be possible to have some other station not showing the inauguration potentially have better ratings than the inauguration.

What are your thoughts?

My favorite so far with post 32 by poster chowder66 "BET and Telemundo!"

[boston bean]

1. QVC

[someoneeelse]

4. ...

LOL, that was my first thought as well

[still_one]

2. Travel Channel. Might provide destinations to escape to should it provide necessary

[yuiyoshida]

25. What about the History Channel?

Maybe they will have WWII films on all day long.. either that or ...PAWN STARS reruns! I don't have a TV anyway but if I did, I would watch Pawn Stars.

[justiceischeap]

31. Owned by Rupert Murdoch. NT

[yuiyoshida]

33. maybe but....

The Inauguration will not be playing on it... and I be willing to give him a few hours to avoid that three ring Republican circus.

[avebury]

3. I don't have cable or satellite so I don't even think

they would be able to have a record of what I watch. I will probably tune into Netflix or Acorn TV.

[GP6971]

5. You'll never get a consensus

for one channel due to the multiple option plans available through multiple carriers. We'll have the international channels on.

[femmocrat]

6. Mine will be off.

I don't think your viewing habits affect ratings unless you are a Nielsen family.

[someoneeelse]

21. In a digital world

Wouldn't they need to team up with television providers to provide proper reports?

[Lithos]

7. YouTube

So many good videos to catch up on.

Actually, it's likely to be training videos I've not done as well as some podcasts I've discovered.

L-

[Warpy]

16. Also, full movies and BBC series

You Tube isn't just for morons any more.

[mnhtnbb]

8. None. Read a good book. Go to a movie. Play with the dog/cat.

[kacekwl]

9. Won't waste one minute of time watching

an illigitement person degrade my country. QVC not my cup of tea but even a test pattern is better.

[Xipe Totec]

10. I'll be watching reruns of Gilligan's Island nt

[madaboutharry]

11. I think I'll binge watch iZombie again on Hulu.

[underpants]

12. RT

Why not go with the sponsors of the event?

[Squinch]

13. I'm going to turn both TV's on to the "all murders all the time" channel, and then go out.

[erinlough]

29. That's been my go to channel since the election was stolen!

Makes me feel better somehow, projecting my feelings I guess. It is something I usually hide though.

[Squinch]

44. I don't know what my fascination is with it. I am told that women (I am a woman) watch that

channel far more than men. I can't begin to guess at the psychology behind that.

[NightWatcher]

14. MLBTV Spring Training is coming up in a couple of months

[Jacob Boehme]

15. I was planning on providing a nice selection of Blues....

.... For my DU brethren over in the DU lounge on Inauguration day.

[roamer65]

17. None. I will ignore it at work and go to my doctors appt.

Too bad a cable channel wouldn't do 24 hrs of 'the Manchurian candidate".

[GoCubsGo]

18. PBS Create, if you get it.

They have some really good cooking shows on that time of day. And, Bob Ross should be on at 12:30 ET.

[Lifelong Protester]

19. I'll have on music (on cable)

while I clean house.

[northoftheborder]

20. Tennis channel, or my Audible book.

[ecstatic]

22. Great idea, but I'm going to catch up with my shows. nt

[a kennedy]

23. I'll be watching stuff I've had DVR'd for weeks...... eom

[dalton99a]

24. Anything on Netflix

[chillfactor]

26. I will be watching Hallmark or SyFy or...

watching programs I have taped on my DVR.

[Warpy]

30. It's too bad TCM is being programmed by some guy channeling his inner Holden Caulfield

I counted on them for years for light escapism from the Golden Age. Now it looks like the adolescent age.

[LeftInTX]

39. Ben Mankiewicz??

He's young, (49) but he's got a pretty good Hollywood pedigree going back with his grandfather and great uncle.

Robert Osborne, the regular host, has been sick. He's 84 and has been out for several months. Robert hasn't been able to attend the TCM film festival for the past 2 years due to his health.

[Lil Missy]

27. Rent a good movie

[bravenak]

28. AMC

I have been watching old movie all week. Caught a couple of good Errol Flynn flix today. That's my plan for the 20th.

[chowder66]

32. BET and Telemundo! nt

[LeftInTX]

34. Anything that isn't carrying the inauguration

All the networks, c-span, cable news, and PBS will carry the inauguration.

These cable channels will not: Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Food, Travel Channel, TV Land, Animal Planet, Nat Geo, A&E, METV, Discovery, TCM, AMC, ID, TLC, MTV, WETV, Spike TV, TNT, Hallmark, E-TV. I'm sure there are many others.

[aidbo]

35. I was gonna say the Weather Channel, but it will probably just have the inauguration on.

Just read a book or take a walk or something

[someoneeelse]

41. Nucular winter maybe?

maybe not, it will take a few weeks I guess.

[GP6971]

43. Meaning what?

Are you saying Trump will arbitrarily "push the button"? If so, against who?

[Hekate]

36. Children's cartoons. Soap operas. Or pick up a good book.

I plan to toss a dish towel over my tv while I make my sack lunch for Saturday's march in Los Angeles. I'm just insuring I don't accidentally tune in.

[Paula Sims]

37. read a book

Or food channel

[Maeve]

38. If you aren't a Nielsen family, it don't matter

NO ONE is tracking your tv viewing if you aren't a participant in a ratings system.
http://www.snopes.com/change-channel-on-inauguration/

That said, I'll be watching Netflix, just as I do any other day of the week.

[tavalon]

40. I'm watching comfortable shoes

March, march, march, march. Getting ready all day and marching at 5pm.

[SeattleVet]

42. My first thought was how much I miss 'High Street'...

it was a radio show in Denver in the early 1970's...they would have you turn the TV on to one of the movies with the sound all the way off, then provide an improv dialog and storyline to the movie, as well as all the commercials.

They would have been able to do a fantastic narration for Friday's extravaganza! "The orange guy is raising his hand now...wonder where it's been today! He starts to speak, let's listen in...<mumbling> "Me, TheDonald, something about Constitution, uphold, yadda, yadda, preserve, something about defending...here comes the good part, 'So help me, ME!' Now I'm the president, time to take a weekend off then get to the hard work of dismantling the country."

[Dulcinea]

45. If I turn on the TV at all...

....it'll be in the evening, when I'll watch reruns of Law & Order, a hockey game, or a movie.