Patent ID: 8166502

Claim:
A TV executing logic comprising: presenting a prompt on a TV for a user to input information representing geographic area for which a channel map is desired into a TV; receiving the information at the TV; transmitting the information to a network server, the information being correlatable to a list of TV signal providers; receiving, at the TV, the list from the network server; presenting the list on the TV; receiving a user selection of a TV signal provider on the list; sending the user selection to the network server; receiving from the network server a channel map associated with both the user selection of a TV signal provider and the geographic area, and loading the channel map into a TV memory to populate a previously empty channel list in the TV with the channel map, for use thereof to permit a viewer to immediately use the TV to view TV programming without autoprogramming by TV, the channel map including Internet channels and broadcast TV channels, wherein the prompt for a user to input information representing geographic area is presented only upon a determination that the TV communicates with the server, and otherwise an autoprogram operation is automatically executed.