No cable or satellite. We have an HD antenna and actually get several stations. We have amazon prime and can stream from there. We have had Netflix in the past and may pick it up again in the winter. We watch very little, especially this time of year. We like to wind down on the porch or patio in the evenings as it’s light here till after 9. Basically right now we pay around $10/mo for tv (amazon prime subscription).

I still have cable. Would love to cut the cord, but need high speed internet for my job and the cable company is my only choice. If I unbundle them I save almost nothing.

AT&T bought DTV a year or two ago, maybe longer, and we still have HGTV. Not that I watch it. lol

We can't stream unless we were to get a smart tv or something, living in the boonies with decent internet won't let us stream, it's too slow. :(

Haven't had cable in years. I have a Mohu leaf antenna for network TV and pay for Amazon Prime and Netflix. We never watch network TV but for the news. I don't even know what shows are on the networks. I'm not sure what services offer channels like HGTV.

Oakley - you can stream with a $30 Roku box and decent internet. We've done it no problem at our rural lake place with as little as 60 mbps down.

Our internet and cable are bundled. Pre-covid we watched a lot of live sports. In our area, there aren't any economical substitutes for watching live sports and paying for a separate internet account.

We flip on the news, the food channel or the weather channel occasionally during the day. We use Netflix or amazon if we feel like watching something.

We are the same as 3katz. We don't watch prime much because we'd have to bring a laptop to the LR to hook it up and DH is too impatient lol. We also catch a lot of movies and series on DVDs from the library.

We have an antenna, and get a few network stations and PBS, we pay for Netflix and Showtime Go. Amazon doesn’t get my $$, Jeff Bezos can go #$%^ himself. Now that Shameless will end for good this summer, we may just drop Showtime as well. Our one and only TV is in the den, the only room downstairs with a door, and it was a conscious choice, I grew up in a house where the TV was on all day (“for the company” my mother would say), but I can’t abide it on unless I’m sitting in the den, at night, watching a show without commercials. I haven’t watched a network show in at least 30 years, and I doubt I will again. My husband likes to watch football in the fall, so he will go in there and close the door on Sunday afternoons, I despise sports, so he’s on his own for that. Like others have said, the summer is not TV time, we rarely watch anything, unless it’s raining or too cool to sit on the porch.

I don't watch much TV but my 70 year old TV-obsessed dad finally switched to YouTube TV and really loves it.

My brother has YouTube TV and loves it. I've been trying to talk my husband into switching to it, but although there are many sports channels apparently there's no hockey. But, he can subscribe to a separate streaming service for hockey season. I think that we will do the one month free trial and see how we like it.

We still have cable bundled with internet. Every year the "promotional deal" expires, the rate goes up and I have to call and see what new deals are available. It's a hassle, but the internet is great and we would pay close to the same amount if we didn't bundle with cable.

With the streaming services, you have to be sure the package/service you want has the features/channels you want. Not every channel is available on every service. For example, MIL wanted HGTV and it wasn't on YouTube but was on Sling at the time. She also uses the antenna and didn't stick with the Sling package.

We have Google fiber for internet and TV. It works like cable TV. We watch a lot of YouTube streaming, and we have Amazon Prime video. Netflix is inactive right now. We also have Sirius in the car and app for inside the house.

Another OTA user here - our antennae is in the attic, we get 19 digital channels - ABC, NBC, CBS plus their substations, 3 PBS stations and some others. We also have Prime and Netflix. Never had cable, never watched HGTV unless we were in a hotel so can't help you there.

3katz we have never had anywhere close to 60 mgps down and stream all the time with no issues.

Thanks for all the insight-lots of different ways to get a tv fix-or not! Oakley, I believe that if you are a current subscribe to DirectTV or UVerse you can keep that service but there won't be any more promo deals.

I also am realizing that the days of streaming meaning the cable bill drops by half or more are probably done, at least for me to get what I want. The gotcha is I get a discount now for bundling internet with tv. Once I cut the tv service I lose the discount and that plus a streaming package isn't all that cheap. Still it is time to move on and I have to remember that a dollar saved is a dollar in my pocket, and every little bit helps etc.

No cable. No antenna; we live in the boonies and we tried one but got no stations. We have amazon prime, we pay for acorn tv and we have netflix. May cancel Netflix. Dont like paying for tv, wish the library would reopen.

I still have cable (cable/internet package), TiVo and an Apple TV. The TiVo is a DVR that can record four shows at one time and lets me skip commercials (except for things recorded from CNN and some other odd things). I have dozens of “season passes” set and have no idea when shows actually come on. I just click the TV on and see what has been recorded and watch something. Like running, I can’t abide commercials and only watch them when viewing live sports.

The streaming through the TiVo isn’t the best for some reason, so I use the Apple TV for that. All the cost with the AppleTV and TiVo is up front - no monthly fees. If and when this TiVo dies I’ll have to research what the best options are at the time. I’m not looking forward to that day.

We pay way too much for Frontier Fios. I know that every year I need to put aside time to call and wheel and deal. Our bundle price just jumped (+$30.00).

When I call, I try to Immediately speak to someone in “retention” , because they are the ones who can make the deals.

This year I even pulled out the “how can you Treat a long time customer who has never been late with a payment like this, during a Pandemic! “ card. It didn’t matter. I was offered no better price with the bundle we prefer.

I am researching changing to Spectrum. Am not hearing great things about its service.

We have had Charter (now Spectrum) cable in the past, and they are our internet provider, but they do not offer a whole home DVR, which is essential to us. Instead, each TV can have its own DVR, each of which has to be programmed separately.

With our DirecTV service we can set up and watch a recorded show from any TV in the house.

Another cord cutter here. We switched to internet only service last year and have the $30 Roku Express on 2 of our TVs and a Roku TV. We're very satisfied with Roku. Cable is such a wasteland and hassle. I like Roku better than Amazon's firestick too, Roku's remote is better and the home screen is easier to use too. Netflix and Hulu and PBS are the only extras we pay for.

Our internet bill from Spectrum is $30 less than it was before, and if we had kept cable TV, it would've gone up, as they raised the rates.

P.S. Did you know there's a website called cordcutters.com full of tips and recommendations?

We have Comcast Xfinity as my DH loves tennis. We pay almost three hundred. We also have Apple tv, firestick, and many others. I never watch tv until 8 at night. Then I watch a good movie, usually foreign. Because I am deaf with an implant and two hearing aids, I can only use CC as I can't understand a word when the people talk over each other so that limits my t.v. time. I'm actually ok with that as I accomplish more by myself in my studio plus doing chores. My daughter just gave me a home pod and I love it. I can turn the music up to the max and hear it yet, even then, I limit myself. Oh, and with the home pod, my 3-year old great grand Dylan and I can dance all over the place lol. It's the best feeling. We have Spectrum in Maine but we can't go yet as they closed down to out of staters.