“You are paying for your cable, streaming whatever. You are not paying for the free networks. Nobody does.”
In order to get CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS, I’d have to pay for a package that includes those networks. My cable provider, Charter Spectrum, will not provide those networks unless I pay. Thus they are not free.
“Everybody can get an antenna or whatever and get ABC NBC CBS for free.”
But only 14% of tv households have done so your argument that CBS news, ABC news, and NBC news have far more viewers then Fox news is invalid. If the vast majority of tv households had an antenna installed so they could receive programing broadcast over the air, which isn’t the case, then your argument would be valid.
The truth is, only a tiny percentage of adults in this country watch Fox News. There are about 260 million adults in the US. About 3 million watch Tucker Carlson. That comes out to just over 1% of the adult population.
No you DON'T.
You can drop your package today and cheerfully enjoy the free NBC CBS ABC without paying a penny to anybody.
You are like the joker who goes out to buy air which is freely available to everyone else, then insists you can't get free air without paying for it. Chuckle.
Um, you may want to read this from Pew Research. Your figures are wrongand out of date. Consumers are abandoningcable as fast as they can:
Cable and satellite TV use has dropped dramatically in the U.S. since 2015
The share of Americans who say they watch television via cable or satellite has plunged from 76% in 2015 to 56% this year, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.17 Mar 2021