For more than a decade after I graduated from college, I had DirecTV. I’ve been without it for eight years now. I miss it sometimes. Specifically I miss how much of a ninja I was flipping channels.

Question: Here’s something I’ve always wondered about television: Why is there no Channel 1? Answer: We’re getting into some vintage television here. Modern viewers have seen a Channel 1 — it’s on my ...

Disney's deal with the pay TV giant suggests that, in an accelerated cord-cutting era, no channel is truly safe. By Alex Weprin, Lesley Goldberg In a carriage battle about pay TV’s future, one of the ...