P.S. If you do cut the cable, get a smart tv or splurge $40 bucks (or whatever they cost now) and get a Roku attachment to hook to your existing tv. You can jump around as much as you want, although you’ll have to figure out the necessary subscriptions for your shows. The market is adapting rapidly. The streamers try desperately to reduce churn, but consumers are figuring out how to subscribe to X for a couple of months, catch up on whatever, and then drop it and switch to something else.
In response, the streamers are now bundling their subscriptions. They are rapidly reinventing cable packages. The whole streaming thing was a mistake.
I’ve found that a lot of cable and network news stations can’t be subscribed through ROKU. They ask you for your ‘television provider’, and ROKU isn’t one of the possibilities.