Originally Posted by
plagwate
I don't give a flip about local character if it's 11 PM (10 PM Central) and I'm trying to relax from a day of traveling and/or on-site client work. I want to be able to find The Daily Show before Jon Stewart starts his Act III interview.
This isn't just a Marriott thing. The cable system at most hotels is terrible. The lag time as you scroll from channel to channel is about 1.5 -2.0 seconds. It doesn't sound like a lot but add all the times the remote is unresponsive and it can be a few minutes before you find a channel that's buried in the upper range of the lineup. It's even more frustrating when you find out your channel isn't even carried.
But speaking of terrible, another thing that's terrible in on the west coast (Pacific time zone) is that there's no consistency as to whether the hotel takes the east coast feed (and thus everything is 3 hours early, relative to when you expect it based on local time), or the west coast feed.
So unless the Daily Show is repeated every 3 hours (so that it's on at the same local time whether the hotel takes the east coast feed or the west coast feed), it's not going to help to know what channel it's on because you also need to figure out (by a potential difference of up to 3 hours) what time it's on!
So until hotels out on the West Coast can get their west coast vs east coast feeds consistently right, I can't imagine them getting anything else about the channels consistently right.
And I've run into more than one Marriott property that had the same station on two channels, for some unkonwn reason, thus missing a station (that was supposed to be on one of those channels). One property did it with cable news channels, another did it with local channels. So they screw all sorts of things up left and right.