If you live in a large city area and there are TV stations you can get one of those antennas that look like a sheet of paper. They pick up local channels. One of my sons has one and he put one in for my DSIL.

Or what about a subscription service for Netflix?

Wish you well.

I know many will say they rarely watch TV, but I rarely watch TV. DH will always turn on the one in my office, so if I'm in here I'm listening to news, or stock market reports, many, many sports events but while I'm absorbing some I'm technically not watching it. I have my desk placed for the window view and TV is behind me.

Where I would miss it is in the bedroom! I am completely used to falling asleep to the television in the bedroom. Part of my routine along with an open window (screened of course). I don't even set the timer for the television to turn off. DH will wake during the night and turn it off, if he really even wakes to do that ;0)

I'm outraged always at what Xfinity/Comcast charges. Every several months I call and negotiate a temp reduction in price and then it shoots right back up again. Right now its more than the monthly payment on our first house!

I got rid of cable a few years ago and got an outside antenna, so tv is free. I still have to have a separate internet connection but it's much cheaper than having cable. I do have the tv on most of the time whether I'm watching it or not and I leave it on for the dog when I leave the house.

SamKaren, I got rid of cable TV but stream lots of TV shows with my Amazon Prime membership. I don't miss cable TV at all.

If you have internet & wifi, you can get a Roku for about $30 and watch tons of free TV

DH has been talking about cutting our cable. The costs keep going up while our viewing keeps going down. I don't think we're that unusual.

We use one of those antenna that look like a sheet of paper. I think ours is Leaf? Between that (our current favorite over-the-air show is Animals Unscripted, short funny animal videos with no voiceover, it’s really delightful) and Netflix and Hulu that we share with our son, we don’t miss cable at all. For breaking news I watch things like CSpan and CBC and local news updates on my tablet.

Roku has the major news networks: CBS, NBC & ABC, along local news and a lot of others, PBS , YouTube as well as access to all the subscription streaming services - even Amazon Prime. We love it. We cut our cable last year and do not miss it a bit.

And Pluto TV is a streaming/on demand service that you can watch free on any device. It's not the only one either.

plutotv.com

I got 2 roku ultras and we use YouTube tv for our regular channels. We are very happy with it. I also use it to stream amazon prime,regular YouTube, and lots of free channels that roku offers. We pay 95 dollars a month for unlimited internet and 50 dollars a month for YouTube tv. But there are lots of other streaming services to pick from as well. Lots of them free. All of the paid ones that I know of (YT tv, att now, hulu,etc) are month to month, no contract. And no hassle when you move. Unplug, pack it up,plug it in at your new place,watch. I guess the only hold up would be moving your internet service.

I would be salty if I was without TV. It relaxes me.

I know people that are happy with the Mohu Leaf Antenna. If you put in your zip code, it will tell you how many channels are in your area.

https://www.gomohu.com/

I have an indoor antenna.......a flat piece of plastic that sits on my end table. It pulls in CTV and Global and TVO (periodically). The picture quality is HD.

The vast majority of my tv viewing is on weekends; streaming, using an HDMI cable from my laptop to the tv

I could live easily without tv. I also recommend getting Roku.

Mohu didn’t work for us at all. I sure wish it did.

There are lots of ways to get around not having your dish. We use dish dowstairs and Roku upstairs without a problem. I’m even planning on trying a few streaming services to see if our needs can be met that way. That said however, as someone who rented for many years and had to put up with a lot of landlord shenanigans, I would take issue with a new company that seemingly doesn’t respect tenant rights.

In the Palm Springs area, I have a Terk indoor antenna, and I replaced the amplifier with an ANTOP amplifier, which greatly improved reception and the number of channels I can get here. I'm supposed to get 61 channels, but about half of them are in Spanish, religious, for children, shopping, or otherwise of no interest to me, but there are about 31 channels that I do watch, including six or more PBS channels.

From my experience, you cannot piggyback amplifiers, and the new amplifier worked only when I removed the first amplifier.

We have hundreds of movies on DVD plus dozens of TV shows on DVD, including the complete Monty Python series, which we have been rewatching lately. We also stream movies on Amazon Prime. DB Kevin gets all the new Sony releases streaming, and so we can watch those, if we choose.

In my bedroom I have a leaf antenna, but the reception is not as good, as I have not replaced the amplifier.

A landlord can restrict the mounting of antenna and satellite dishes to exterior of the building, roof, siding, porch, etc.

According to the rule: For example, the rule (OTARD) would not apply
to restrictions that prevent drilling through the exterior wall of a
condominium or rental unit and thus restrictions may prohibit
installation that requires such drilling.

Perhaps the new owner has a plan but hasn't communicated it yet or you missed seeing the communication. A phone call may solve the issue.

As for streaming. If you have internet and a SmartTV, and not fussy about superior quality streaming, the SmartTV apps will be adequate for Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Disney+, etc.

I use my smart-TV as a display for my computer so I reckon it becomes a smarter-TV.

Samsung offers Samsung TV Plus. I briefly looked at it but it didn't seem to offer anything that interested me. And like most TV, it has too many commercials for me. (Any is too many for me)

After having Amazon Prime for years, I just recently started watching an occasional movie. But I wouldn't pay extra for it.

There's Youtube, Vimeo, etc. which I'll watch on rare occasion.

I'm more into watching old TV reruns that nobody else would want to watch. I have several on my hard-drive, and sometimes start them playing randomly, mostly just for the noise.

My snowbird neighbor has a dish on a pole in the yard, not on the side of the house. Would that work where you live?

Looking at a simplified version of the FCC regulations, it looks like there are areas a landlord can prohibit a dish, but also areas where they can not...

I got rid of Dish years ago. I don't miss them. I watch streaming shows sometimes on line. Read the news that way too. Yesterday when asking my phone about the weather for the day it told me I could get news by saying "good morning". lol. I listened to current news getting ready for work and driving in yesterday and today. There were multiple stations with different news items.

In order to get Directv to work once, we had to have the dish mounted onto a pole out in the yard. Darn trees. :c)

"As for streaming. If you have internet and a SmartTV, "

A smart TV isn't needed. So long as the TV is new enough to have an HDMI socket, you can get a Roku-Chromecast-Firestick dongle in the $30-$40 range that will allow streaming from all the popular sources.

Elmer, once again you missed my point. I was telling the OP she didn't need to spend a dime if she has a Smart TV. Your suggestion requires spending money on a device that may not be needed.

Let me make it clear for you. I said, " If you have internet and a SmartTV,

You said she needed " internet and a SmartTV". And you went on to talk about smart TV apps. Those were your words. That could lead someone who's currently out of work and waiting for an unemployment check to thinking that she's SOL for awhile without a so-called smart TV. Which isn't the case.

My comment was that she doesn't need a smart TV and that there were modestly priced alternatives. Heck, at my primary home, I don't have a smart TV. I stream all the services I wish through other means and she can too if she chooses to.

You said she needed " internet and a SmartTV".

No, I didn't say that.

This is what I said.

If you have internet and a SmartTV, and not fussy about superior
quality streaming, the SmartTV apps will be adequate for Netflix, Hulu,
Prime, Disney+, etc.