“Besides being free, how are the programs on broadcast television any better than cable?”
Exactly what I’m thinking. These people bragging about getting tv stations for free. Yet these stations are ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, etc. Big deal. Nothing on those stations I want to watch. Cable tv provides me with the movies and tv shows I grew up with and love.
Thing is, when you get into the n.2, n.3, even n.4 OTA channels, you get all sorts of old stuff hard to find even on cable. “H&I” has Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise, 6 nights a week. There are lots of 70’s and 80’s cop shows and such. Movies tend to be pre-70’s, or not well known, but I have little time for ‘em anyway. VERY occasionally I will buy a movie from a few years back — year-over-year, the cost is under 1/10 what I’d spend on cable. The only thing I really miss are nature and history documentaries, because our PBS station is too weak to easily receive. But, many such are on You Tube, available 24/7.
To top it off, “Comet” had a Babylon 5 marathon over the Holidays. Woo-Hoo! (Inside joke) :-)