We got TV, it's on probation.
For the last 4 years or so we have not been connected to a television source. I got mad at having to pay a cable/ sputnick company and still having to sit through the hard sell part of the programming mix. So we let it lapse and the silence was golden. We would still on occasion get a whole season of a show like NCIS, or Monk, or Lie To Me from the library and binge out on it for a treat with no commercial breaks at all. It was great and the library had an immense selection and the ability to borrow more from all the other libraries in the county. Well we moved back to the land of long shadows and the library system here is not so hot. So, Menards had an antenna for digital reception on sale with a rebate for $.99 plus tax and postage for the rebate, so I got one and it works pretty well. We can get 7 or 8 channels, CBS NBC PBS among them. The commercials have gotten worse but at least it is free and there is a channel that broadcasts shows like Green Acres and others of that vintage. And there is ION TV with shows like Criminal Minds, I saw an episode of Columbo and an old X Files and enjoyed them, I admit it. But the first day or so was when the shooter at las vegas was the hot story and all the wild speculation and "we gotta do something" was pouring forth and I found my blood pressure rising. Yesterday was Columbus day and on the 11 oclock local news the news reader was delivering the story of a statue of Columbus someplace out east that was defaced with red paint and right at the end in the same ho ho ho santa clause voice announced that "Columbus brutalized and enslaved the Native Americans that he encountered." So I think that he was happy to see the statue with red paint on it. Still plenty of absolute garbage on the air for sure.