Thank you all,
First off - Yeah, you are probably right about the 60hz being mains, but check this out, I increased the sweep rate to 10ns with 100mv per division and also took the antenna from another toy remote and connected that to the scope instead of direct coupling it. The last thing I did was to switch the probe to x10. With this configuration I get a nice steady 49Mhz (and yes the controller needs to have a stick moved in either up/down or left right to work but holding it in place keeps it on).
The thing I wanted to find out was how could I take something I know nothing about and find out what frequency it's transmitting at. It seems that when you get the sweep rate set about right (it's represented as seconds per divisions on my scope) changing it a little bit won't impact the reading, in this instance, at 2ns, 5ns, 10ns, and 20ns I get a pretty steady 49Mhz single with vary little deviation from that reading.
Thanks all - just learned a lot about my scope and how to measure frequency.