Use QuickTune to pick from your 9 favorite channels

Yes, DIRECTV has hundreds of channels of live entertainment. They also have over 50,000 on demand programs. If you really want to think about it, they’re just one entertainment source of the hundreds out there. All in all you have millions of choices out there. Yet, if you’re like most people you watch about nine channels all the time. Sure, you’ll go outside that zone from time to time but most folks can pick nine favorites. Take out the major networks — you know what channel they’re on — and imagine if your nine favorite national channels were just a button push away.

Get ready for your wish to come true.

If you have DIRECTV service, they are, and you already have the technology. It’s called QuickTune and it’s already on your receiver or DVR. Just press the up arrow on your remote and you’ll see an empty menu of channels just ready for you to fill it. Press the Green or Enter Button (depending on whether or not your remote has a green button) to add the channel you’re watching to that list and you’ll see its icon appear. The next time you want to tune to that channel, press the up arrow, arrow over to the channel you want and press SELECT. It’s really simple!

It’s going to look something like this. While this capture is from an older receiver, the one for Genies is almost identical. This feature has been around for a long time, almost fifteen years. In all that time, most folks never learned about it. But then again, that’s what this blog is for.

Once you have it all set up, just press the UP arrow while watching TV. You’ll get the quicktune menu and you’ll be able to choose the channel you want to watch. It’s faster than keying the number directly, and that means it’s pretty fast.

It’s all about the live TV.

You can pick any nine channels and you can change them anytime. While most of DIRECTV’s improvements are really tied to the DVR experience, this one is more designed for live TV. If it’s 8:00 and you want to watch the latest iteration of CSI, you don’t need to remember the channel number or surf through thousands of channels to find it. Put your local CBS station in your QuickTune and go there fast!

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Stuart Sweet
Stuart Sweet is the editor-in-chief of The Solid Signal Blog and a "master plumber" at Signal Group, LLC. He is the author of over 10,000 articles and longform tutorials including many posted here. Reach him by clicking on "Contact the Editor" at the bottom of this page.