Most of my stays are at either the Courtyard Indianapolis Northwest, or the Fullerton, Ca Marriott. Both have a limited number of channels that includes CNN, TBS, TNT as well as all of the network channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, UPN, WB, FOX) as best as I can remember. I can't imagine starting my day without CHiPs reruns.

Hey our friends in Europe might want the BBC or some other channels. Are we too USA centric here.
I have found that some hotels do seem to be cable hotels in that they may have as many as 50-60 channels including the shopping ones. However, most hotels have a dish somewhere and use that for the non-over-the-air channels.