The good news is really simple and I'll spend most of the time focusing on that, along with solutions that Edgar and Adam suggested on facebook.
The good news is you can watch almost any television show or movie online, much of it for free.
There are two reasons to keep cable or dish at this point.
1. HBO.
2 ESPN
If you are addicted to HBO episodic shows, and who can blame you, you either have to keep your cable or wait for the DVDs. I'm sure there's some way to get HBO To Go without having HBO but I don't know what it is.
If you are a addicted to sports, that's the only really good reason to keep cable right now. So for Lily, there is really no way to give up cable and watch a lot of sports....
BUT
Consider this.
With a digital antenna you can get all the football games (and basketball, baseball and...hockey?) that are on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. I'm watching March Madness right now on CBS (actually watching Charles Barkley and Kenny the Jet talking about the games.) in High Definition.
Also ESPN has sports online at http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index. In fact that's where you can watch the women's NCAA Basketball tourney.
You can also watch MLB baseball with a video pass (costs money).
So if you're a sports fan who never had time to become addicted to ESPN (it was a close thing but I was doing theater all the time), you can get a lot of sports on broadcast and online.
And, I'm sure more will be coming. Neither Disney/ESPN nor Fox Sports owns/owes cable or satellite (in this country) anything.
THis site has a lot of useful information about antennas, including classifying six or seven major varieties from weakest to strongest. If you put in your zip code, you can get a map that tells you which direction all the stations are in (in case your antenna is one of the "directional" varieties) and which type of antenna will pick it up. May not be an issue in LA but in Seattle you can't get at least one major network (Fox) without a pretty serious antenna.
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