1. A personalized channel service suitable for a user of a multimedia program network, comprising: enabling a multimedia processing device (MPD) to receive a plurality of presently-available multimedia content programs; and enabling the MPD to: select from the plurality of presently-available programs a probably-desired program based at least in part on a user preference profile; and respond to the user selecting a user preference channel by presenting the probably-desired program to the user; wherein selection of the user preference channel conveys the probably desired program regardless of an origin of the probably desired program.