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How to Prepare For Christmas TV Specials of 2016

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If your holiday traditions include family bonding over a heartwarming classic such as “It’s A Wonderful Life” or “Jack Frost,” this is the post you should be reading.

With the Trump vs. Clinton saga finally over, people are stocking up on turkeys and Christmas specials are popping up regularly in print and electronic media.

Some TV networks have published their schedules for 2016 Christmas TV programming already – Gilmore Girls reruns, the deluge of Santa Claus, Elf and more.

Freeform will begin their annual programming on the 1st of December with the 25 days Christmas coverage. NBC is expected to show “It’s a Wonderful Life” multiple times during the holiday season. These networks promise to make your Christmas holidays extra fun with top notch programming.

Keeping Up With Christmas Programming

There’s ample new Christmas programming that’s going to be aired. Mentioned below are the measures you can take to ensure you keep up.

1. See the Lineup in Your Area

Did you know that you can see the lineup of TV channels available in your area? Top cable TV vendors provide online search features that allow you to search holiday programming by your location, a particular channel, and the cable TV package you’re subscribed to. Apart from finding programming in your own area, you can use the search features to see what Christmas programming will air in other areas if you’re planning to be somewhere else (perhaps spending time at your relatives’ house) during the holidays.

2. Use a TV Show Tracking App  

It can be challenging to manually keep track of Christmas programming. Fortunately, there are apps for iOS and Android smartphones that allow you to keep track of the television shows you plan to watch as well as notify you about new episodes in most instances. An example is TVShow Time. It’s an app for Android and iOS devices that incorporates some fascinating social elements to track television channels. You can enable notifications for specific shows if you want by selecting the Christmas specials you’re interested in within the app. In addition, you can play episodes for television shows that are available on the web legally.

3. Inform Your Relatives about Your Picks In Advance

Watching Christmas specials with your loved ones is a special affair that telephone discussions can’t replace, and it’s a great way to get conversations going after the show. However, there’s a possibility of things getting messy if your relatives aren’t aware of the Christmas specials lineup you plan to watch. Give them a call and let them know in advance. This is also a good way of knowing if there are certain programs on their bucket list; you can have a healthy discussion and perhaps remove some of the programs on your to-watch calendar in order to accommodate the ones they want to watch.

4. Be Equipped For Emergencies

Emergencies like issues with television colors and screen cracking can arise anytime of the year. To ensure they don’t interfere with your Christmas TV schedule, make arrangements to watch cable on your laptop. Buy an HDMI cable and a TV tuner card that’s necessary to get cable signals. Then all you’d need to do is launch the software for the TV tuner card to begin watching.

The countdown to Christmas has begun. What specials are on your bucket list?

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