I thought that I would get a lot of flak from my kids when I decided to shut the cable off. It's been 3 months now and not a peep. Can you believe that they actually read books and play boardgames instead? (To my chagrin I found out that my daughter is pretty good at Scrabble)
If something happens and I ever need to see one of the networks I have a set of rabbit ear antennaes in case of an emergency, like hurricane season.
-Kevin
Great plan! Good luck with the family - stick it out even if they start to complain, it'll really pay off. When I was about four, my mother said, "No more tv" and taught me to read instead. We have a collection of several thousand books, on every subject imaginable. I've read most of them. Now I find I'm socially uneducated because I've never seen MTV, don't know what "Friends" is, and don't really know one actor from another, unless they've been in something major.
At the same time, I do know that Pluto's orbit takes it inside that of Neptune every century; that "Wherefore art thou Romeo" is not Juliet asking about her beloved's current location; what a Hobbit is. Socially deprived? I don't think so!