If you could only watch 1 TV Channel, what would it be, and why ?

I also grew up with no cable, so network only, where my dad watched the original Star Trek, poor me. I grew up with PBS kids programming and game shows. My nightly "shows" now are sadly Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and then I turn it off for prime time. I do love Wayne Brady's Let's make a deal if I happen to be home at that time. Yes, tv is that horrible these days.

Didn't get cable until an adult because it wasn't available until satellites became popular. Then had no cable due to college. So had cable for maybe 10 years, then about 7 years ago went back to rabbit ear antenna when they did the changeover. Spend several months at my mom's a year and she has like 800 channels. I come back to my house renewed that I will never have cable again.

Last year, we started to do the "binge" watching of shows...so far we have made it through one season of Parenthood, stopped, one season of Breaking Bad, stopped, two seasons of House of Cards, stopped, one season of the Network, stopped, two seasons of the Good Wife, stopped, etc...did like Rectify, two seasons, awaiting....watched the Americans, awaiting...begrudgingly watch Mad Men, but only like Don Draper storyline, but I hate the rest of the show. Sadly, the last show I "loved", I know very stupid, but Chuck and Blair on Gossip Girl are the best two characters even written on tv. But I watched this in real time, I think bingeing removes an element to the shows. Once a show goes unrealistic, I just can't watch...I guess the rich elite of nyc is so unrealistic that it is actually believable. I usually get through about 3 episodes before something goes sour for me. I did like the Big Bang Theory weekly, but haven't watched it lately.

As for channels, I remember liking Discovery and TLC because they had these completely weird medical bios named very weird things....I am my own twin....I was pregnant for 39 years, etc...the names would catch my eye when trying to find something to watch on my mom's 800 channels. They were always interesting and educational...the twin one, she had morphed her twin into her body and had two dna's....and the pregnant one became a stone baby tumor when it didn't abort in a third world country.

I am taking recommendations...would love to watch a really good tv show again one day, lol.

And yes, once football is on, that is all that is on our tv.

QVC. Can one ever tire of looking at Amethyst or Byzantine?

I would watch the News channel 24 hours a day, I likw staying upn to date.

Based on these responses, I can see why Obama was given the authority to devastate our country in 8 years. My choice would be the Fox News Channel. I want to know what that traitor is up to each day. And the news I get is "FAIR AND BALANCED".

I tend to watch shows rather than a particular network. That said I would pick Hulu since it has more of my favorite shows.

C-Span, where people like Reverend Jim(Taxi) are enthralled by state legislature debate whether folks from Delaware will be called Delawarians or Delawarites!

When I was a young boy, we had only 4 channels..............WGN, plus the three networks. At a later date, we got UHF channels 32 and then 11 (public television). Cable wasn't offered in our area until about 1979. When I arrived college in 1977, I found out what cable television was as I had never heard of it.

Oh, easy, Fox news prime time. First I light a whole bunch of candles, place them strategically all throughout the room. I slip into my night robe as I dim the lights to almost nothing..ooo. Then I break out the oil that I've had warming on the stove and start to apply it generously all over my body. I grab a box of Kleenex and slide into my beanbag as 8 PM hits, the hunger grows down deep. Tonights guest: Rush himself! oo..oo..OH. Then John Boehner!! ahhhhgggh! sweet release. I light a cig and fight the desire to give lurkerdave a shout.

So Fox news it is, couldn't live without it.

In all seriousness.
I also grew up with three networks and sometimes WPXI 19 out of Cinci. which was an independent and showed all the really cool old movies on the weekends like Godzilla, Sinbad, all the really cheese flicks. I remember hooking probably 50 ft. of wire to my TV, running it out the window and climbed up to the top of the tree outside my window with the wire, a coat hanger and the roll of foil out of our kitchen. I made my rig, scurried down the tree thinking "VICTORY" in my mind. I should be able to watch channel 19 all day long, nirvana! Can't tell you what a disappoint that little experiment was, think it made it worse. Whew, way, way digressed there.

To pick a single channel would be too tough, a few years back it probably would've been History, but like most other channels have "broadened" their lineup to include some really crappy shows. I think they quit making modern marvels entirely. Science channel has some pretty cool shows as well. We fall asleep with TVland on tho so I'd probably have to go with that, we have to have the tube on at night or we can't sleep.