Yikes!!!
I just paid my cable bill. It's a $109.70. ($64.87 for cable and $44.95 for my cable modem.) I hardly ever watch television these days, so I only have a "package" that includes all of my local channels, the cable news channels, HGTV, Food TV, the History Channel, A&E, and Bravo, etc. The only channel that I watch on an irregular basis is WLIW (the Long Island PBS station -- one of three PBS stations in my area) and that's only because it's the only PBS station that seems to have a schedule that I can figure out. (I love British comedy too. Keep Up Appearances is also one of my favs!)
I keep telling myself that I need to cut back on expenses and that I should drop cable. (My internet service would increase another $5.00, because I would lose the "video customer discount".) Inertia is one of the reasons why I haven't dropped it. Friends who didn't have cable had to get it after 9/11 because they tell me that reception here in the New York area suffered when the towers were destroyed. (Most New York area stations were broadcast from an antenna that was located on top of the North Tower.)My apartment building has a "master antenna" so that would hopefully get around any remaining reception problems. Decisions, decisions, decisions!
Mike