Systems and methods supporting automatic selection of media according to a user profile are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may automatically select media matching user-defined characteristics in a user profile, and may provide information identifying the selected media to a user via a user interface. The user interface may be displayed as one or more media channels, where a portion of each media channel may comprise information identifying the automatically selected media. The user may then access the automatically selected media via the user interface. The media selected may one or more of audio, still images, video, real-time video, and data.