I’ve probably registered or used nearly a dozen or so sites or applications that provide tv listings, and each time I have to choose my provider (is it Cablevision of oakland, or Cablevision of bergenfield?…rebuild or non-rebuild?), pick a line up, then select a list of favorites. It’s always a hassle. There should be a single web site where I can do this. I think it would work like this:
1) Go to mytvfaves.com (or whatever this would be called) and register an account there
2) Pick my provider and line up.
3) Go through the lineup and remove channels I don’t get, and choose my favorites from the ones I do.
4) Name that setup.
5) Repeat steps 2-4 for all locations I would use (for instance, my parents’ house or my sister’s which are completely different lineups, etc.).
Now that I’ve got them all set up, I’d go to tvguide.com or titantv.com –or WhatsOn or i.TV on my iPhone — and instead of being asked to enter a zip code, I am asked for my mytvfaves.com username, and lineup name. It downloads my list of channels to include, and channels to highlight (favorites), and it can then do whatever it needs with that info.