Actually, I want MORE channels, not less. I want to be able to receive the local news in the town where my parents live. I'd like to be able to get Moscow television whenever I want, to see what's happening when things are going on there and to keep my Russian active.
When news is breaking in Pittsburgh, I want to be able to tune in to local coverage there. You get the idea.
Eventually, all that will be available through internet feeds, but it's not there yet. I want that stuff on my big TV in the living room, anyhow, and I can't do that right now.
I don't want fewer channels. I want MORE choices.
"I want to be able to receive the local news in the town where my parents live."
It'd be interesting to be able to zero in on oddball stations like that at will.
In the last 6 years that I had cable I MAY have hit the nets once or twice. Invaribly what I saw and heard on them was down right dis-spiriting. I usually watched a handful of the cable stations. .
When cable started decades ago, it was promoting itself to offer those kinds of options. They never really happened.
Now, with the Internet, we are closer to that. Many 'live' events from around the world are streamed over the Internet. It is doing what cable never got around to doing. I am surprised that the major US TV networks aren't using it more effectively. Many radio stations stream, but the TV industry lags.
> I'd like to be able to get Moscow television whenever I want, to see what's happening when things are going on there and to keep my Russian active.
You can hear all the Russian you want on a cheap short wave set. Breaking news as it happens...depending on who controls the media at any given moment.