I swear a visitor to this country watching network programs would think Americans are the most disease ridden, ill people on earth. Every other commercial is for some sort of pharmaceutical product. And the side effects profiles make the original ailment look preferable to taking the risk of the medicine. It is the single biggest reason I’m going to cut cable and go all Hulu, Netflix, Amazon prime and showtime on demand.
You do make a good point, all these people claiming they're "saving money" by "cutting the cord", then they spend almost as much for subscription services as they did for the cable tv package. I suppose if you live where you can get a decent assortment of channels OTA maybe it can work out but for many of us rural folk OTA tv is something we used to get years ago, but no longer.
Or because pharmaceuticals are so overpriced that they are the only ones who can afford to advertise.
The satellite dish is essential for local TV, but we can get everything else from the internet. Locast covers some areas in my state, but not mine. We do get one local AM radio station, one AM and two FM stations on repeaters from 80 miles away.
I let my son pay for the streaming services
