Patent ID: 7174126

Claim:
A method for facilitating user access to programming content via a program guide, comprising: listing on the program guide available program channels corresponding to a plurality of different content providers in channel number order, at least some channels corresponding to a program content provider being separated in said listing by channels included in said listing corresponding to another programming content provider; in response to a user selection corresponding to said content provider, identifying at least one group of program channels which are associated with said programming content provider; listing on the program guide a content provider program channel group which is an aggregation of program channels corresponding to said programming content provider, at least some channels in the content provider program channel group being separated in said listing of available program channels by a channel corresponding to said another programming content provider, said content provider program channel group being exclusive of any indicator indicating a program channel corresponding to said another programming content provider; and allowing a selection of one of the program channels in said content provider program channel group to access programming content offered by the program channel indicated thereby.