Broadcast TV!

I've been without cable or TV of any kind for a couple of months now; same situation, finances are too tight, had to make some painful cutbacks.  However, the internet is handy for more than just scouring the web in hopeless search a Tina Fey nipple slip.  I've been relying on torrents until I've got enough flow that I can afford to get cable hooked back up.  It often means having to wait until the day after a show has aired before I can see it (though typically most shows are uploaded within an hour or two after airing).  But at least I'm still getting to watch my shows, plus the uploaders usually edit out the commercials.

It's not ideal; nobody uploads news programs, and I've had to rely on uploads of new Daily Shows and Colbert Reports for current topics LOL --  but at least it's something.

We don't have cable either. Haven't had it for more than two years. We did get an HD antenna so we're able to get the free broadcast channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, CW about twenty more. Granted , almost half those channels are in Spanish, but at least it's something. We download the shows we miss from cable or catch them online the day after they air. It's not ideal, but cable here isn't cheap and we only have one option other than satellite which is a horrible option with the way the weather is in Florida.

My husband misses the DVR, Spike, FX and Monday Night Football. I miss Chiller, Fear and catching Sons on the night it airs. We manage though.

For football, not for the next 10 years- NFL just signed a $9 BILLION a year deal with the various channels.  Then ESPN signed a mutli-billion deal with the SEC, MLB I don't know, NBA just got a new deal last year I think.

As for the non-sport channels, stop putting crap on all the time and maybe I'll watch it.  People who watch sit-coms are probably the same people that watch all that TLC crap, like Catfish Hunters and Honey Boo Boo.  I don't care if all it costs is a bottle of Jack Daniels and some pot to make those shows- they're crap.

The one new show I'm looking forward to is Last Resort (Thursdays, 8pm, for now, on ABC).  From what I get, there is an illegal order for a nuke sub to fire on Pakistan, they refuse, and then the US fires on them.  They then tell the US to back off or they will fire on them.

A lot of the reason I'm waiting to see this is I'm a big Andre Brougher fan.  Castle and Haven are back, but they aren't new, and nothing else has peaked my interest.

Yeah, but it's just not the same.  Especially when it comes to reporting political news.  I miss CNN and US News & World Report.

Did you guys catch the new season of Two and a Half Men? I have to say, this new season is beginning to look awful. The first episode was just so bad.

Same here.  Except not online, I just wait 'til midnight after new episodes have aired and DL the show itself.  That and the Colbert Report.  But as much as I love both those shows, and I do, I do still miss the "legit" news shows.  And I don't mean GOP-leaning crap like Hannity & Colmes or the ridiculously inane and one-sided Fox News.  I'm talking the good stuff like CBS Nightly News and that kind of thing.  But like I said, nobody ever uploads that stuff.

And it's funny because up until a couple years ago I never gave a squat about the news.  But now, I like knowing what's going on in the world.  Must be a "40s" thing.