Do you have access to an IMAP mailbox? I've started using feed2imap - http://home.gna.org/feed2imap/ (use IMAP on Gmail for more entertanment)

Alternatively, as a lynx user, you may like Snownews - https://kiza.eu/software/snownews/ - its a text-mode rss reader.

With the digital decoder boxes we have in the UK, you can preselect programs from an on-screen program list and the digibox will automatically switch channels to watch those shows.

Of course, it has to be turned on (not in standby) and you can't set it to stop when a program finishes but that would work (if there was anything worth recording).