Thinking of dropping cable...

We got rid of all the extras and went with the basic cable. We have up to and including The Weather Channel. We are with TW and that is $12.75 a month. We do have TW internet, so our bill is $72 a month. Much better than the $212 bill we had! We joke that we were paying over $100 a month for commercials and reruns. We have a ROKU with Netflix and Amazon, plus I have a connection that I got off Ebay that allows me to hook my iPad up to the tv and watch through apps for other stations. We don't miss any of the channels that we used to get.

I would if I had good internet but we live in the country and no one really seems to care about the country people, at least not around us.

Mine is bundled with my internet and I'd dearly love to get rid of it, but there are too many things I and my DS would miss I think. I have what they used to call expanded basic, but now it's just basic. No premium channels at all and the only pay per view we ever get is WrestleMania! lol

Six years of no cable. No regrets. In fact, when I go to DS's house, and check up on what is on cable, I'm reminded of what I'm totally not missing - even from channels I once respected. On Memorial Day, the History Channel had a Pawn Stars marathon. I mean, that really sums up cable television these days, doesn't it?

we recently dropped our cable/satellite service. We have a streaming service and free to air channels. My husband misses the History channel and some sport. But other than we are really happy and the kids watch way less tv.

We have discussed cutting our DirectTV. We don't watch a ton of TV but we are quite spoiled to fast forwarding through commercials. I DVR some children's shows and movies so we can access them later. We DVR the 5:30 national news and the 6pm local news. We watch it every night after DD goes to bed. We like to stay up with current events so the thought of not being able to watch live (delayed) coverage of a large news story is what gets me. If we could figure that out, we could do it. Occasionally we watch TLC or HGTV or other but it is primarily the national network channels we are watching

Thank you for mentioning this.  I had read about Sling at some point but couldn't remember what it was called (now I've bookmarked it).  Our problem is that we live in the middle of nowhere and can only get satellite tv & internet...the internet is throttled so we can't stream... BUT, I'm thinking that if we were only spending $20/mo on tv, that we'd still be money ahead to drop DishTV, even if we ended up paying for more for extra internet time to accommodate occasional viewing.  With AMC, Food Network, Lifetime, and ESPN, I think I'd be happy enough.  Our garage has an old tv with a converter box that sorta picks up network tv, so I just might be able to do this, especially after dd moves out at the end of this summer.

Hulu Plus has most of the major network shows. My husband used to have a digital TV antenna, too, and we got all the local channels, but a big windstorm broke that off, so that would have to be fixed, although we don't miss it much because it is just nicer to watch the shows when we want to watch them, not when they are actually on the TV. One problem with Hulu Plus, though, is that usually the shows aren't kept on long term, so unless you don't watch it within a few weeks time, sometimes they take them off and you have to wait for the shows to be streamed somewhere else (like Netflix). For example, my husband and I started watching Blacklist on Netflix and when we saw all the episodes available there, we wanted to start watching the current season, but Hulu Plus has only the last several episodes and so we would miss the whole first part of the season. Now we will have to wait until it comes on Netflix, but this is definitely a very minor inconvenience. There are so many other things we can watch in the meantime.

We dropped DISH Network about 3 years ago and have not missed it. With all the fliers that we get in the mail to come back, though, they could substantially lower the price. We get probably 2-3 different mailings from DISH to come back per week. That is a lot of cost to send to everybody who has quit DISH.

Also, ABC just came out with abc all access which I'll probably subscribe to when the shows start back up in the fall. $6/mo

marking my place in this thread, because we're thinking the same thing. Why spend the $$ on hundreds of channels of CSPAN, NFL, ESPNs, etc. when we only regularly watch about 10-12 channels? Problem is, we watch channels like Discovery, National Geographic, Food, Science, etc. so we need to figure out how else we can watch the shows we like.