It wouldn’t work, considering cable companies pay ESPN something like $4 per subscriber. They pay local broadcast channels about $1 per subscriber.
As much as I dislike the cable companies, they make most of their money on equipment rental and premium channel subscriptions.
I cut them off 10 years ago.
“They pay local broadcast channels about $1 per subscriber.”
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I still can’t believe the broadcasters managed to get paid by cable companies for what is free to anyone with an antenna. It is absurd. You pay for cable and you are paying for local channels that you could get for free with an antenna and you still have to be plagued with commercials. It is getting so even a lot of the cable channels have so much advertising that it is not worth watching. Why do I have to pay a cable fee and still have to have one third of the time taken up with advertising.