When I moved into my new house three months ago, we signed up with DirecTV. I'm happy with GSN and a couple other channels, but recently we've had more-than-occasional signal outages. Mostly, we'd get local channels but no cable channels. Other times, CNN--a channel my mom and uncle watch regularly--is the only channel lost. We plan to fulfill our one-year obligation, but Mom's ticked, and she's not thrilled with the local cable company--to whom my sister across town subscribes--either. In fact, she's at to the point where she's ready to just put up an antenna next winter when our DirecTV deal expires and live on--gasp--just six channels from then on. Given the direction TV's been heading these last few years, I think I may best off giving up cable channels cold turkey. Sure, I would be giving up GSN, but I'd still have WoF, J!, TPiR and Millionaire.
A lot could change in nine months, but is life with 6 channels better than life with 150?