Displaying an electronic programming guide for live television

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, that when executed, control a computer system to be operable for:

• receiving a list of ranked entities for playback, the list of ranked entities being ranked in a first order based on information for a user account;
• using at least a portion of the list of ranked entities to determine corresponding channels that are playing the at least the portion of the list of ranked entities;
• rearranging the channels of an electronic programming guide from a sequence to a second order based on the first order for the at least the portion of the list of ranked entities;
• and
• displaying the channels in the electronic programming guide based on the second order.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for controlling the one or more computer processors to be operable for:
• receiving a list of ranked entities for playback, the list of ranked entities being ranked in a first order based on information for a user account;
• using at least a portion of the list of ranked entities to determine corresponding channels that are playing the at least the portion of the list of ranked entities;
• rearranging the channels of an electronic programming guide from a sequence to a second order based on the first order for the at least the portion of the list of ranked entities;
• and
• displaying the channels in the electronic programming guide based on the second order.