They are charging you to watch 25% advertisements that they get paid to broadcast. The news channels can be streamed free online. Networks also show reruns that have long lost their copyright and are in the “free” domain. But you’re paying for it all!
You can get most programming FREE without piracy or grey areas anyways.
I was referring to using a jail-broken Firestick or some such device when I said "theft", not the free alternatives.