Patent ID: 8627349

Claim:
A method of providing access to a block of content, comprising: determining, utilizing a content receiver, a plurality of instances of disparate television channels being received by a tuner from a same frequency band via satellite from a content provider, wherein: the content provider selected the disparate television channels to be placed on the same frequency band; each of the disparate television channels corresponds to a different television network; and the plurality of instances of disparate television channels are scrambled using a single control word; receiving input at the content receiver from a user to display a block list that lists the plurality of instances of disparate television channels; outputting the block list from the content receiver for presentation by a presentation device; receiving, at the content receiver, a selection from a user of a first one of the plurality of instances of content; and outputting the first one of the plurality of instances of content from the content receiver to the presentation device in response to the selection.