I cut the cord from cable in January 2020 because of the rising cost of cable companies’ packages and the vast number of channels I had never watched.
Sure, I could have lowered the package, which would then not include some of the channels that I did like to watch, or played the game of canceling and going to another provider in the hopes that I would be lured back with a package and a discounted rate, but I simply just tired of the game of it all.
I lowered my bill from $220 monthly to $50 for just the internet portion. For the cost of a digital antenna, at the one-time cost of $25, I now receive 65 channels over the air. I subscribe to SiriusXM to listen to news coverage for $12 a month. If there are video clips I need to see, those will pop up not soon after the news is broken on YouTube and can be found on Twitter.
So, the system I developed after cutting the cord has…
