I hate to tell you Judy... but they have several channels double here, with the same shows running at the same time... but I never had cable, since my divorce.. and will never get it either.

Moni

I cut the cable tv habit years ago. Watch some Amazon Prime, and have a collection of movies and shows on dvds/blu-ray I can watch. I do more reading too.

I agree, Judy. Same movies over and over, same show on different channels sometimes labeled "New". New? I just saw it yesterday. However, I like HBO and Showtime (sp?) for certain programs. Thought about dropping cable after Game of Thrones is finished but probably won't.

I dropped cable a few years ago. Every now and then, they will offer sixty days free and I turn it on. I get so tired of the same thing playing, way too many commercials, and a bunch of stuff I don't watch that I turn it back off before the free offer expires.

I dropped cable years ago. I miss HG TV, but an hour of it and I feel caught up. I can always open a magazine.....and get the same info.

I dropped cable I think a bit over 10 years ago. I bought a roku and subscribe to Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime (for shipping, not so much of tv) and stream some things online. Spend my money instead on the fastest internet. Turns out I don't miss what I don't know about in terms of new shows. I feel so much freer and have never regretted it.

Are we talking cable or specialty channels? I don't have any specialty channels because they are expensive.

The only reason I have the cable level that I have is to get Space. But with that we do get a couple of news cable outlets, showcase, W., which I do watch sometimes.

Unlimited, reliable internet is not available where I am. Satellite for everything and the internet is limited to 10 gigs a month, which means I don't stream anything. Wish I could, I've heard of several shows I'd like to see but won't get to.

I have Direct TV, and have been thinking about making a change, but I'm not sure what I should change to. I definitely want to keep the network channels. I guess I need to get serious about investigating other options, such as whether some of the Direct TV channels I really like are available on other sources.

Rusty

ETA: I have just the basic Direct TV package, no 'special' channels, such as HBO, Showtime, or anything.

My cable is bundled with my internet so no, I won't be dropping it :-) And it is not the cable that is of concern to me but the typical broadcast networks that produce such drivel. I tend to only watch PBS, a couple of DIY channels, sometimes the Food network and the animal shows - Animal Planet and NatGeo Wild. Otherwise I access Netflix and Acorn TV via my cable provider and stream Britbox on my computer.

Gardengal has written my response ;0) My internet, tv are bundled. I watch Animal Planet, Nat Geo, Food Network, sometimes History Channel and network news.

I think I must turn off televisions at least a half dozen times a day now that DH has retired. Whichever set is on, it will be turned to one of the sports stations. He turns them on to get scores....leaves them on, whether he is here, outside, has left the premises ;0).

I'm in the same boat as Mystical Manns except we have 15 gigs a month. You'd be surprised how quickly two people go through that allowance. I can't remember which tv provider we have - I think it's Dish. Out of 200 channels, I think there are 5 or 6 that we watch. We didn't have television for over 10 years and didn't miss it. Not sure why we decided to get it back, but it might be time to re-think that decision.

Oh, yeah. I have my internet with my cable too.

We have had direct tv for ages. We have been happy with it till some idiot flipped some switches and suddenly we no longer have our grandfathered in network tiers. That was my main reason for keeping direct tv. When we moved here they decided that we couldn't keep the package we had they were changing it. That didn't make us happy. Last month with no reason the bill went up. This month again no reason it went up another $16 a month. It's rediculous and I have to call them. I would love to make some changes. We do have Netflix also. I get fast internet from xfinity. Att taking over direct tv has not been a good thing. When we were living in the motorhome we were able to get a lot of channels over the air antenna with great quality. So I think we should put a decent antenna in the attic and use it for the network channels. I would definitely want some type of device that allows us to dvr the shows as we are accustomed to. There's so many options available these days. But you have to be careful not to end up spending more on all of it than it was costing before.

I heard an interesting interview today about tv viewing. Cable viewers pretty much ever watch only 17 of the 200 channels they receive (and I imagine that they regularly watch only a few of those 17). And as of just recently, more people view via other outlets like streaming than traditional cable/satellite. I don't think they mean that people exclusively watch via streaming, but just that there's more overall viewing that way. We have an antenna and share two streaming accounts with our son, and we use our library a lot, too, for movies, documentaries, and series (including series that we haven't seen on Netflix, like the original 1984 "House of Cards" from England.)

This seems to be the topic of conversation everywhere. Everyone is saying how the tv shows lately stink. We're watching reruns of reruns . AT&T is by far NOT cheap . I wish I could tell them to shove it . We have basic cable, a landline that we use less than 20 times a month and my internet . $218 a month and every month it seems to raise by a few dollars. If we "un-bundle it" - it'll cost even more ! If it wasn't for dh loving his certain shows ,I'd kick the TV to the curb.

I've never had cable, but if I did, I'm sure I'd be sick of it. :-)

Love my outdoor antenna and Amazon Prime.

Raven, I hope you have better luck than we did, something similar happened to us and after a lot of problems, we ended up switching to Dish.

I ditched cable back in the late 80s, if that answers your question?

We have basic cable, a landline that we use less than 20 times a month and my internet . $218 a month and every month it seems to raise by a few dollars.

That does seem like a lot if you only have basic cable. Call AT&T and ask to speak to a 'retention specialist'; say the price is too high and you're thinking about going with one of their competitors or cutting the cord altogether. They will probably reduce your bill (although it will eventually creep back up again!)

I dumped cable two years ago and haven't missed it at all. There's hardly anything that I care to watch and most network shows can be streamed online for free if you really love a show.

I fired Comcast a couple of years ago. I got tired of them messing around with my bill. I only had Internet and TV and they consistently couldn't bill me correctly. I now only have Internet with them. I have a smart TV with different apps. I don't watch TV all that much anyway, but do have Netflix, Amazon video, along with an HD antenna. With my HD antenna I get 51 channels. All for free.

We did not get $65 worth of pleasure out of Cable so when we moved to our house, we did NOT bother getting cable again. My husband and I like going to flea markets so he finds tons of DVDs for $1 each so we have just about every movie known to mankind that we like to watch. If I am interested in a subject, I will watch youtube, I much prefer that without all the commercials every 3 minutes!

You didn't need Cable TV to watch the most enjoyable, gratifying basketball game ever.

Michigan State BEAT Duke!!

"Cheers"

LOL....Michael...I almost had a heart attack!!!! Go Sparty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never had cable. Guess I'm too cheap to pay the fees. I do have Netflix and I hardly ever watch regular tv. My news I get mostly from the internet. I like to listen to radio talk shows. With working and everything else I need to do I don't have much time anyways.

I think we have Direct TV (satellite), and it came bundled with internet. I did not switch to satellite until fiber optic internet was available, which is the bulk of the bill. I got the most basic TV channels, and we got the outlets installed in two bedrooms, so my brother and I both have satellite in our bedrooms. He watches it in his room but I seldom do. My bedroom setup is more awkward than his, and I have to watch TV on my side.

Lately the service has been giving us warnings that they are no longer going to give us VH1 (which I use for RuPaul's Dragrace) along with 22 other channels (probably ones I don't watch), and if they do this, I will remove the TV part of the package, even though it is relatively cheap - about $35 a month. I had to sign a two-year contract, and I need to find out when that ends - it's somewhere in my email. I made certain that no sports channels were included in my TV line-up, as I do not watch them, and I find them irritating. If Kevin wants to watch a sports show, he can watch it on a network channel. We also have antennas for all three TVs, and we get about 130 channels from that, almost a third of which are in English. We have out setups so that only favorite channels are displayed, and I think I have about 25 in the satellite system - fewer in the antenna, but still enough to satisfy me. There are quite a few channels we watch that we get through the antenna but not through satellite.

What I like best about cable/satellite is the ability to record shows to watch later on DVR. That's the main thing I would miss, but I already have so many shows recorded to watch that I have to delete some of them in order to record more. I used to put these on disc, but we haven't even been watching discs lately and have quite a few of those that we have not seen yet.

Uptown...that MSU three pointer in the final seconds, the free shot misses by Duke...whew..what an emotional ride it was in the final seconds.

I've never had it. We get about 100 stations for free with an antennae. I quit watching TV when I was in jr. high. I got a horse, so rode every day after school and weekends. At night...homework. We only had one TV and 3 channels. I have never had any interest in TV, although it is on all the time, as a nightlight. I like documentaries and sometimes watch on one of the PBS channels or on YouTube. My husband likes 2 things on tv... sports....which I have zero interest in, and old black and white westerns....which I hate, due to how poorly they ride/treat the horses.

For entertainment, we record Masterpiece Theater and stream from Amazon Prime. Our library gets some good DVD's. DH wants to be able to see his Cubs and Bears -- sometimes records to avoid all the commercials and drawn out games. We watch CNN and 30 minutes of local news.

We have Comcast with the neat 'talk to me' controls. Fast internet and DVR TV are $146/mo (too much) for one main box and one satellite.

We haven't watched commercial TV since the shortly after the days of I Love Lucy, when such shows united the nation. Well, we watched Sesame Street, etc. when DS was little.

I’m a TV addict, broadcast and streaming. I find so many good shows to watch.

I like reality competition shows (Survivor, Top Chef, Project Runway, etc.), the other “reality” shows with the plastic surgery people don’t even get a second from me. Hardly any “comedies”, even Big Bang Theory got old for me a few seasons ago. And, almost no cable news unless something major is happening.

I bought a roku and switched to DirecTV NOW,which is their streaming service. It's cheaper with more channels. SO would be content with an antenna to get the local news and the YouTube app on the roku. I have Amazon prime and use some free channel apps on the roku as well.

I wish you could just pick the channels you want and just pay for those,instead of a package with a bunch of channels I'll never watch. Given the choice I would pick:food network,cooking channel, HGTV, Nat geo wild,tlc,maybe own or oxygen. SO MIGHT want the sportsman channel and that one with all the car shows...I don't remember the name. That plus the news and the Alabama football games are all we need. I rarely find something of interest outside those channels. I like documentaries about certain periods in history (ancient Egypt or Greece, Tudor england,etc) But those are all on YouTube.

I am a happy homebody, and find TV relaxing. So, no I am not sick of it.

I will say I am tired of that RIDICULOUS fabletics commercial where the women in the leggings CANNOT keep their hands off themselves. Its like,hey lady, you and your leggings need to get a room. Yes yes,we all see your butt.....now tone it down...

I wish you could just pick the channels you want and just pay for those,instead of a package with a bunch of channels I'll never watch.

And here's why you can't: https://www.techhive.com/article/3296376/why-a-la-carte-tv-still-isnt-happening.html.