YouTube TV has pretty much everything you need plus it carries your local stations.
Cutting the Cord: Eliminating cable or satellite...
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Big_Holla
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Still trying to cut back more where we can. Those of you that have the HD antenna how well have they been working? The thing I have trouble with is finding the channels I don't watch a lot or seasonally. Then it seems we are in and out of every app trying to remember which has what shows on it. The Roku on the one TV seems easy to use most of the time. Have any of you guys done anything new to organize better or made your life easier with cutting the cable. My wife has been talking about going back to at least a basic cable, something I want to avoid if at all possible. We use Netflix, Prime and some (still free) apps at the moment.
We do ROKU but also pay for HULU during college football season. After bowl games I cancel it. We also get free stuff like espn plus for free through Verizon
bigten05
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I have an HD antenna in the attic. Don;t get the little square plastic one. Get a real aluminum antenna and mount it in the attic Something like this.
Big_Holla
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So most of the apps we have been using like History continued to work for quite a while after we dropped our TV/Cable provider. Now they are not working any longer for us as we have to put in our TV provider and it does not recognize our account any longer. It seems there is no way around it unless we buy some sort of subscription to something like Hulu+Live, Sling TV, Philo, etc.. Anyone found a cheap way or work around that we may not be aware of?
Just got an email from YouTube, they are raising the price again. I'm out. $82.99 a month to support a bias platform. What are you guys using for live TV for sports and such?
It’s a pick your poison scenario…… They all suck and are overpriced…..
I've been very happy with Hulu Live, but like all the others, they keep raising their prices .. 
We lucked into a solid deal with Spectrum. Not sure what we pay on the breakdown, but the whole bill is $175/month (internet is at least $130ish). That gives us legit high-speed internet, like streaming movies on 3 TVs with no issues fast, and we got to hand pick 25 channels. We use the Spectrum app on the TVs to watch our favorite channels, which gets us all the live sports. I only watch sports, hunting on YouTube, and cooking on Food Network. We pay for Netflix and Disney+, so we're $210/month all-in on internet and TV. That's the best we've had it for a while. We also get Prime TV with out Prime subscription. With a wife that loves her stupid shows and 3 kids, it pains me to spend it, but such are the trials of a 1st world existence.
ThatBuckeyeGuy
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This... I've used most of them and settled back on YouTube TV. The only difference is I got 2 other family members to go in on it the last 2 years. It works out good now , we each pay roughly 30 a month and watch all the sports and movies. We start it in September and then after the super bowl we cancel it. During the summer the wife has her apps that are cheap and I use my cheap apps Friendly etc since we don't watch a whole lot of TV in the summer time and when I do it's usually only hunting shows , military documentaries , and gunsmoke. Friendly has all 3
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