“I can see people having to give up television...”
We are giving up Dish Network after our contract is up. Paying for 50% of channels that are nothing but commercials for products no one would ever buy and reality shows is not worth the expensive rates. We’ll get the cheapest cable company we can find and be done with it.
I have Dish Network basic service for $27 month. If not for a few christian channels I sometimes watch I would dump it too if I wasn’t employed.
Also have Verizon FIOS and landline costing $77 month which is a rip off. Same would apply.
a suggestion — get rid of cable completely. No television broadcasts at all. The news via the net and radio is better and you can choose. Entertainment? Pick a book, play a board game, play some sports, talk to family.