It rocks - except for live news after midnight.
I'm mostly not awake by then anyway.
Have had DirectTV for years and prefer it to cable in terms of clarity, choices, view options. On all of them, however, the number of paid programming 'shows' have sky rocketed. A broken record sound follows: why pay $50 plus a month for ads?
That, and in my area Direct TV subscriptions are controlled by the local telephone co-op. Apparently, they have a master agreement with Direct TV. I had one of the first Direct TV dishes way back when, but after numerous billing issues, like being charged for multiple movie rentals when I was out of the country for 3 months, I switched to Dish Network. Never had a problem with billing since.