A system for creating and maintaining subscribable channel collections includes a computer-readable storage medium having encoded thereon a program of instructions for generating and maintaining channel collections, and a processor that executes the program of instructions to: display a channel collection configuration interface, receive two or more channel selections through the channel collection interface to populate a channel collection to include multiple channels, one or more of the multiple channels comprising multiple content items, using a channel creation operation, create a subscribable, channel collection, and receive a subscription request from a media device and using a channel collection subscription operation, create a channel collection subscription linked to the media device.