Bruce Springsteen did get it right at least in one song ("57 Channels and Nothing On"). In fact, these days, there are about 400 channels and pretty much nothing on. If I have to find something worth my time on the cable, I usually end up watching "Cops" re-runs or something on the National Geographic or History channel. The rest of it is pretty much pure garbage.
So I'm hoping that the price of cable TV continues to rise so that I can eventually convince my wife to dump this service and then I'll rig up a video box that will capture off the internet for free the small amount of content that is actually worth watching. About the only thing I will really miss if I cancel cable TV is live NFL football. But getting my Sunday afternoons back, I can get used to that. I'll take more Sunday afternoon hikes and get some more book reading done.
We have a local oldies sub channel that shows A-Team, Knight Rider, Air Wolf, Mangnum, Rockford Files, weekly in the evenings. Also, Emergency, Adam-12, and lots of westerns on the weekend afternoons......so, I'm happy....can get local 24hr weather on 3 subs all the time. PBS has good stuff too for DIY, Nature, etc. I love the older programs.....better scripts.
NFL is the only thing that I miss be Cableless. I think, including the SB, I only watched two or three games this year.
Political correctness doesn’t allow a lot to shown or broadcast, so we have unending infomertials. Almost anything from the old days offends a pet liberal group. They chop the shows to shreds and they still offend.
Last year, one of the tiny networks put “Daniel Boone,” the old Fess Parker show on for a few weeks. Their disclaimer took forever to read...”This was produced as a children’s show and may not properly represent the historic accuracy of these situations.”
We are so offended by everything that we show nothing.