Sitting around over the weekend lamenting the demise of the music channel - not so much MTV, but VH1, which at one time would broadcast historic rock movies (like the Stones at Altamont), along with “Behind the Music” and other programming devoted to, you know, music.

These days it’s all the “Flavor of Love” crapola. I suppose the audience of people who like that nonsense is simply larger than the number of people who would tune in to watch the Stones. Which, when you think about it, is pretty much what’s wrong with the country.

But colleague CK tells me of another network being offered by the evil empire Comcast HD called Palladia, which I’ve never heard of, but actually uses programming from MTV, VH1 and CMT - programmig that at least the first two seen to no longer have any use for.

And I’m looking at the shows offered over the course of the next week in which we’ve got Jeff Beck and Foo Fighters and ZZ Top Live; we’ve got Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains the Same” and U2’s “Rattle & Hum,” along with a boatload of other, you know, music.

But this, of course, requires subscribing to a higher tier of Comcast programming, and giving them even more money. Which I’m against. Just too bad that in order to escape the avalanche of bad reality TV, you have to spend more money.