Yeah, but network TV was always limited at best, and with only a few exceptional shows in 40 years, was mostly all garbage. I wouldn’t want to go back to the old days of only being able to watch the one or two good shows on each week, at a time that’s not convenient for me.
Works if you are close enough to a station or 2. No OTA reception in this here holler, only get 1 non country station on FM
and until this year no cell signal (we can get 1 bar on AT&T now)
I'll get at least three deliveries starting Tuesday, sometimes two deliveries in one day. As WinterDeere and Eagle1 noted, fine if you can get it. No OTA tv here either except for a neighboring state's PBS, which really doesn't interest me much. As far as network tv goes, you get the show when it's on, not necessarily when it's convenient for you and it always seems the shows you do enjoy are always the ones that get pre-empted for sports, Christmas specials or awards shows.
We used to like Freevee, which was also owned by Amazon. Last summer they shut it down and combined it with prime. Allegedly, there's still free content, but it's difficult to find. Not paying $165/yr or whatever for prime, actually don't have ANY paid services. Pluto, the Roku channel and a handful of other free with ads services are fine for what we want. Some of these channels have very few ads.
Lately, my wife has gotten into Homestead Rescue. Got to be one of the hokiest "reality" shows out there. The premise is this father/son/daughter team select "homesteaders in trouble" and spend 7 days to "rescue" them. Most of these folks that need rescue are completely clueless about even rural living, let alone off-grid homesteading, are living in some falling-down shack with no water and no idea what to do. The team miraculously repairs the house, digs a well/pond, builds a chicken house and gets them on track, all allegedly in a week. EVERY episode involves an excavator and maybe a skidsteer or a portable sawmill they somehow conjure up and a bunch of materials supposedly found on the property.
I can't ask delivery drivers to come down my road in winter so started having orders sent to the local general store, where I paid $3 for the privilege. That worked out well for a while, until they started charging for each package. Then they went up to $5 per... after a while that free shipping got so expensive that I had to stop having things shipped there.order five items today and pick Friday delivery for ALL of them because I want ONE delivery since they come down the driveway at 100mph slinging my gravel all over the place.
