While you are at work or doing work for school, its often nice to have something on in the background that you can occasionally take a break to listen to or watch as well as to drown out the rest of the world so you can focus on the tasks at hand. If you have satellite TV service, you have lots of great options to choose from that are both interesting and educational that will help keep you focused and informed.

Of the many channels that satellite has to offer, there are several news stations that are excellent to listen to while you are working; whether it's at the office or at your home. Depending what kind of job or task you are working on, there are different channels that may appeal to you. For instance, if you work in finance or accounting then it might be helpful and nice to have some financial news on in the background. Satellite TV has lots of news channels that cover financial news such as Bloomberg, CNBC, MSNBC, CSPAN, and so on. If you just want to watch pure news CNN or the BBC are great channels to watch. If you want to tune into CNN, you will find stories bring covered that are about international, national and local events. They have human-interest stories, debates, and often show live footage of current events around the world. The BBC broadcasts similar stories, but covers more international and European focused news stories and events than CNN does. Some people like to have sports news on in the background instead of customary news coverage or financial news coverage. This could be because the person is working in sports, or because they like to have a distraction from what they are working on that's not related to their professional or to what they are studying in school. For sports news, the number one channel that Americans tune into is ESPN. ESPN covers all sports that are popular in America, but focus more on the sports that are in season or gearing up for the next season in the United States more than sports abroad or off-season sports. If you are more into soccer, rugby or cricket, there are several channels that carry the games and commentary higher up in the channels that you can easily search for in the TV menu area.

In addition to the customary and traditional news channels mentioned above, regular broadcast networks such as ABC, NBC and CBS have several different news shows that are on at various times of the day. In the mornings during the workweek these channels have their early morning and morning shows for people to tune into. As the day progresses different news programming comes on. Usually the local news will come on around five o'clock and that followed by the national nightly news. There is often some other special interest programming in addition to the national or even international news as well. So, no matter what you're interested in there will be a new channel for you.