We have basic cable and there's still nothing to watch. I can flip through about 25 channels (including 10 foreign language ie Spanish, Korean) and 75% of the programming at any particular time seems to be commercials. The only thing of any interest are some of the Spanish novellas (for the hot chicks/psuedo-cultural cliches) & PBS (eg Nova).
Interesting. When traveling I sometimes flip on the set in the hotel to see what's there, but outside of the History channel there seems to be nothing worth watching.