I dropped Comcast about a month ago (felt great), and replaced them with a $60 over-the-air antenna. I get about 30 channels now, all free, and many in beautiful hi def. I get all the local stations, two stations that play classic TV (Andy Griffith, Lucy, etc.) I also get two stations that play nothing but movies, old ones but good ones, like On the Waterfront. All free.
What stations you can pull in depends on where you live. I doubt if you'll get much in a rural area. There are websites that'll tell you what you can get, by zip code. And you'll never get cable stations like the History Channel or Fox News.
Still, I never did watch much TV, so it works for me. Local news, local weather, old movies, it's all good.
I watch a lot of Fox and HGTV - as well as USA network.
On the basic channels I watch NCIS, like Scandal (I know, a BHO lover created this but I like it anyway), Blacklist.
If I could get Fox and HGTV I’d be good but my husband has to watch Golf and ESPN. So I think I’m stuck for now.
I dropped Comcast about a month ago (felt great), and replaced them with a $60 over-the-air antenna. I get about 30 channels now, all free, and many in beautiful hi def. I get all the local stations, two stations that play classic TV (Andy Griffith, Lucy, etc.) I also get two stations that play nothing but movies, old ones but good ones, like On the Waterfront. All free.”
I get all that and more from Comcast basic at $30.00 per month. Why are you paying $60?
Agreed.
When I was laid off a few years back, we dropped the dish (actually, Direct TV.) We still had an outside antenna setup we used for local channels when rain blanked out the dish (usually just as severe weather approached!) Reception is trickier than in the old analog days — the all or nothing downside of digital. But, even in a rural area we get a few stations and they have 2-4 channels each, with a usually-but-not-always decent selection of older shows and local news & weather. Plus, there’s just not that much good on TV anymore. We do miss Fox News sometimes, and some of the science / nature / history stuff. But, there’s lots of that on the web, and at one’s own schedule, too. So, same here - it mostly works for us and saves us some $$.
Plus — people are just busy, whether it’s trying to keep up with the seeming ever greater complexity of life, or the poor (for the middle class) economy, or tied up with social media (not me!), and so on. I know in my own case, there’s just not that much viewing time available for me, anymore.