Plus, you still need the internet to stream, and who owns the internet? The same guys that you're laughing at and letting them know you're going to stream.
“I know everyone can say “Just cut the cord and stream!” but it’s really not that simple anymore.”
In our case, since we don’t watch sports or the new woke shows, the difficulty was local channels. I solved that with an antenna, and where we live I need on on the roof.
The youtube that is free on the internet is also a free streaming channel, and you can pay a little and get additional content, but to get local channels you jump into the $70 region.
Local channels from anywhere other than an antenna are expensive.