Garden Valley Telephone Company GVTV User Manual

Phone: 800-448-8260 or 218-687-5251 

Website: www.gvtel.com 

Garden Valley 

Telephone Company 

201 Ross Avenue 

PO Box 259 

Erskine, MN 56535 

FAVORITES 

Create Favorite Lists: 

There are 12 pre-defined favorite named lists and  

you may create up to 5 additional Favorites Lists. 

1. Press Menu. Arrow down to ‘My TV’ and then 

arrow right to ‘Edit Favorites’. Press OK. 

2.With your Favorite List highlighted, arrow down  

to move the channel list. Channels included in the  

Favorite List are marked with a P. Using the Arrow  

buttons, move through the channels and press OK  

to add or remove a channel to your Favorite List.  

Or, type in a channel using the number keys. 

3. When done, press the Blue button to save 

your changes. 

Using Favorite Lists: 

1. Press FAV. By default, your list is ‘All’ channels. 

2. Arrow up/down to choose a Favorite list. Press  

OK with a Favorite List selected, you will be in  

Favorites mode using that list. 

3. Use either the Channel Up/Down button or the  

Arrow buttons to move between channels in a list.  

Or, use the number keys to select a channel. The  

‘Info Bar’ shows the name of the active favorite list. 

4. To leave a Favorite mode, press FAV. Arrow 

up/down to select ‘All’ and press OK. 

PARENTAL CONTROLS 

There are several ways to use Parental Controls. 

From the Main Menu, select My Settings. Arrow 

to the right, highlight Parental and press the OK 

button. You will then be in the Parental Controls 

menu to: 

Change PIN: 

Select the Change PIN category to enter your new  

PIN and confirm it. Until you change it, the default  

PIN is 0000. 

Edit Locked Channels: 

You can lock entire channels via the Edit Locked  

category so that it requires a PIN to view the 

programming. You may prevent locked channels from 

showing in the channel guide via the Parental Control 

Options (locked channels would still be accessible using 

the number keys and entering a PIN). 

Set Program Rating Limits: 

To control the types of programming that can be 

viewed, you may set program limits based on motion-

picture ratings (G, PG, R, etc.) or TV ratings (TV-

G,TV-14, etc.) using the Set Ratings category. If you 

attempt to tune to a channel that is airing a program 

with a rating at or above your rating limit, you much 

enter a PIN to view the program. 

Set Time Restrictions: 

The Time Restrictions category allows you to set time 

periods per day where television access requires a 

PIN.These time restrictions may be set by selecting  

the Green button to Add Restriction under the Time 

Restrictions category. 

Cancel Override: 

Cancel Override category allows any previous PIN  

overrides for an extended period of time to be can-

celled. Once the override has been cancelled, the  

parental PIN will need to be used for all Locked and 

Rated channels. 

REMINDERS 

Set Reminders: While viewing the guide, highlight the 

program where you want a reminder and press OK

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