I pay approx. $80.00 a MONTH for cable access.
Most of those "news" stations are anywhere from moderate left to extreme left...
Same for those "free broadcast stations" that are available in the local market.
They are actually the most leftist of them all. (ABC, NBC, CBS broadcast networks.)
They don't cost anything, but your access to unbiased news is quite limited.. (generally left wing, 4 channels max.)
If it weren't for FOX cable News I would probably be listening to conservative talk radio..
Quite honestly, $175.00 a year license fee doesn't sound that bad.
I'd save $65.00 a month on cable.
Hell, I could afford broadband at that rate!
Do it the American way get a satellite dish...$39.95 pm for 150 channels.
$175 is just to HAVE a working television. If you actually want to watch anything (such as Sky News--Fox's British cousin), you'd pay more than what we pay for cable. So you wouldn't really save anything.
Sounds like a good idea to me.