More and more, I am leaning my intake of media towards those programs which actually enrich my life by providing me with valuable information, perspective, or advice that will actually help me improve my life or avoid problems. That includes filtering a good amount of news programming for real content, and not stories about some jock getting shot or arrested over drug related issues, or some actor or musician(if you can really call them that anymore) heading back to court or rehab because of drug related issues, or getting divorced/married to another prime time loser. Weather, finances, state of the union, foreign policy, but not politics or who is saying what about whom. I am almost at the point where another hundred movies in my DVD collection and I can nearly match the programming content for most premium movie channels on cable now, only without the endless slew of commercials every ten minutes.

History channel, Outdoor channel, military channel, etc, have good programs on at least once in a while, but why must I pay for 30+ QVC type dedicated channels that I purposely exclude from my channel repertoire?