One of my biggest gripes with cable and satellite is the lack of 'ala carte' channel selection.
Several years ago, I cancelled the cable service, and went with just a small indoor antenna.
Here in north Florida, I get 13 channels. Could get more with a better, outside antenna.
I use Netflix, Hulu +, Sling TV, YouTube and HBOGo, to watch movies, and a lot of the channels you normally only get with cable. All that comes in wireless, with my DSL.
Cost for everything is less than $40 a month, and I have more choices than I did when I had cable. My old bills for Cox Cable were over $120 a month.
In my Miami condo, the same little indoor TV antenna pulls in 62 channels.

I do the same. Antenna and Netflix. Don't miss cable for a second.

I don't watch tv, but we need cable for internet and with my wife's business and the kids school work internet at home is a must. Cable and internet are $200, and don't ask me about our cell phone bill

I'd drop satellite TV in a heartbeat if our Internet was fast enough to support Netflix, but it's just not to be as we carved our slice of heaven too far from the main road.

I know a few people that do the same. I'd love to but I'm afraid I wouldn't get to many if any channels living in a river drainage surrounded by steep mountains on the North and South sides.
There's only a couple of wireless companies that service the area and cell phone coverage is non existent. I do however get Dish/DTV as long as I keep the trees in check.
Guess I could throw up an antenna and see?

Same here. 27 channels off the antenna, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. More stuff then I'll ever be able to watch.

No cable
No satellite
No antenna

I get by with the net and Amazon Prime for entertainment.

We got rid of cable TV about a year ago and have survived quite well with about 5 laughable local antenna channels and Netflix. Needless to say, we don't really care about the 24 hour news cycle, presidential debates or live sports. Life is better.

The over the air thingy is a good deal as long as you live close to a large city.

Out in the stix not so much.

Out in the stix, its fine. About 10 channels, no cable or satellite bill.

I only have cable for baseball season and it looks like the Tigers saved me a month extra this year. Just Netflix and the net in winter until opening day.

out in the stix, broadcast tv but our internet is only good for 2meg

I ditched DTV for a year and survived with Roku and about 4 local stations I could barely pickup with an expensive antenna.

When I moved to a new house also out in the county, I had DTV installed, I would prefer ala-carte programming too but until then, I am paying for DTV...and electricity to run the AC at 68 at night and gas for my truck gas sucking truck....

Have not had cable for many years now for the same reasons.

We get quite a few channels with antenna, I watch a little sports on a sunday, my wife watches stuff regular. I do have cable internet.

Kent

We get internet only. Nobody misses the cable tv at all.

Cable will be on the obsolete pile with eight track tsps within five years. They will price themselves into obsolescence.

Just got weary of the brain-rot and cancelled it a few years ago. Life's short - have acknowledged it's better to be doing it that staring at it.

Watch football at the bar or gf's, rent movies for the big screen, put's extra money in discretionary budget, all is well.

I use Apple TV and get Netflix Hulu YouTube Amazon etc over the Internet. Waaaay cheaper than dish or cable rip off. All I miss is ESPN and stuff like history channel but saving $100 a month.

Ky., Direct TV and Exede for internet. No other options. Broadcast tv means a mountain top antenna and power for boosters etc. For 3 channels.

Texas, roof top for tv. Did a fresh channel scan today, 123 channels. About 1/2 are Spanish, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.

Hughes for internet, no other options. I can see the towers of downtown Houston from the front porch and we can't get internet any other way. Ain't technology grand!

I do have Airbox for The movie Channel, Showtime, Epix, Starz,and Encore. It is thru Ion network over the air.

My wife and I ditched cable as well. I listen to college football on the radio ( regular free radio). Don't miss the TV

I watch very, very little TV and had zero issues spending the entire summer at our place in Idaho with an antenna I installed years ago. We get may six stations but I only watched the cooking shows on PBS.

Netflix and a few major locals by digital antenna. Probably two years now. Saves about $700 a year over our old satellite bills.

College football is the only reason I have TV service, I need to get that worked out.

Yep! If I could figure out how to get live sports without cable, I'd dump it in a heartbeat.

I haven't had cable or satellite in 30 years. We use Netflix a lot, though. I get spoiled watching with no commercials and getting shows on MY schedule. I gave up watching news on network tv a long time ago because of the commercials. I get it all online.

The problem is they also deliver about 75% of the high speed internet everyone needs to stream Netflix and other shows.

Unless competition for internet services opens up for most of America, you can see where this is going when cable companies start losing revenue to streaming.

I have very few reasons for wanting TV, but I do enjoy my football and a few shows. With Verizon dumping the Outdoor and Sportsman channels I am looking hard at options. Step one see what I can get over the air. That may suffice, we'll see.

with a good antenna, I can pick up about 25 channels in HD - most of them are unwatchable due to their content - music, shopping, etc but of course you get the 4 networks, plus PBS, a local weather channel and maybe some local TV station that shows old shows and movies.

This. Haven't had a TV in nearly twenty years and don't miss it a bit. If I want to watch a ball game, I go out somewhere and treat myself to some wings or a burger.

We dumped TV 20 years ago. I haven't run across a game I couldn't find on the internet in years. Quality isn't as good as cable yet, but is constantly improving. Stream 2 and up is generally best.

Use at your own risk. I run good Virus and pop-up blockers and have never had a problem. Download nothing.

Firstrowsports

Stream2watch

VIPBox

Get some RG-11U very low signal drops over LONG range. not sure how far back in your are though.

Wife and I agreed less TV was better for us, so when she took over the internet/ phone/ cable TV payments, a lot of extra channels were dropped and we went with basic local channels plus Streampix. It gives us some selection without having to pay for 34 extra Asian or Mexican channels with laughable plots and bad acting.

We've never had cable or satellite TV.

We do have good internet.

With the proliferation of free internet porn I haven't watched broadcast TV or Netflix in a long time.





Plus, I can curl 125 pounds with either arm....

Forty bucks a month seems low. Netflix is at least $8, HBOGo requires a cable subscription, HBONOW is $15, and Hulu + is $8 a month. How much is your DSL service? We use DSL at our place in Virginia and it struggles to stream video reliably.

I got a cable salesmen at my door that said he guaranteed he could save my $20 in my cable TV Service. I grinned and asked him for twenty bucks. Then I told him I wanted to sigh up and had not owned a TV since 2002 and could put is twenty bucks to good use every month. He said he couldn't do that and was out of there in a flash.

Netflix is $8 a month, same with Hulu +. Sling is $20. The HBOGO costs me nothing. I don't figure in the cost of the internet, as I use it for a lot of things, and not just streaming services.
In Gainesville, the DSL barely keeps up, in Miami, I am getting 45+ MBPS download speed with fiber optic DSL

Live 30 miles N of Ft, Myers and about 90 S of Tampa, we get all four major networks, 4 PBS stations and MeTV. Also get a bunch of Spanish and religious channels but have them blocked so the TV skips them. I have a small amplified indoor digital antenna and could not be happier. Ditched cable & satellite 8-10 years ago as not interested in pro sports or movies.

Now if the networks would abandon all the sports including golf & beach volleyball!

I've got nothing. No cable. No satellite. No net, save for my 4gLTE. I can use it as a 'hotspot' I hear, but I have never messed with it. My cabin's in the woods and I'm sure Dish would be sketchy at best. No cable company would bother running service that far out for the few residences that are in my 'neighborhood.'

I go to my parents to catch Mountain Men on OnDemand when I can, otherwise it's DVD's for me. That's when I actually watch TV.

Netflix through internet and small HD antenna (that we barely use) that a friend gave us when he moved.
We don't have much time to watch TV, and with Netflix we control what the kids watch.

I have exactly the same

KFWA and others,

Any recommendations for a "good antenna"? I need to get one for the wife at her place. We don't have cable or satellite any more, she's been using the Netflix streaming option for most of her needs and is on a free tryout from Hulu right now. She likes not having a cable or satellite bill but misses some shows on "regular" TV.

If no recommendations, which ones to avoid.

Thanks,
Geno

PS , I get my hockey games online now!

GE makes a decent indoor antenna. It is not amplified, but it works very well. Cost about $20
Sling TV is also a good deal. It runs $20 a month, but gives you a ton of stuff you could only get on cable or satellite before. It's in real time, so it's like watching regular TV. Commercials and all.

Thanks M,

Not sure if we'll need amplification type as she is in/near a large metro (Ptlnd OR) area.

I'll check into the GE.

Sling comes thru online? Steaming?

Geno

bought one for the camp last month to watch college football on local channels.

prices vary by the range they pick up.

think the one I got was $30 for 50 mile range. got it at Wally world.

course the digital adapter for the old TV there was another $50.

out in the sticks, but picks up 15 channels.

Thanks Big D,

I'll check Wally's also,

We're probably updating to a "smart TV" this winter from our old cathode ray tube (hey, it was her mom's, it was 25" screen, it has a really great picture quality, it was free and we were "poor" at the time, and it still works... why get rid of it?). So I probably won't get the digital adapter, just an antenna.

Apreciate all the help folks,

Geno