Yesterday we received an email from DirectTV informing us our bill would be going up in February. Our bill is already $85 a month. We pay an extra $10 a month for high definition another $10 a month for local feeds of both coasts and we do not get public television, which when we are in Iowa is our most watched station. Part of our expense is because we are in the RV and move from location to location. So we are weighing in on what we are going to do about this. Our first instinct and most likely solution is to give it up entirely. We will get TV off the antenna and settle for whatever shows up. Well according to the news this morning in two different locations, nothing much is going to show up.
We first discovered we were in a fix when they went from analog to digital. The minute the big switch was made our number of TV stations we could watch off the antenna dropped to practically nothing and in some locations it was nothing!! In order to get TV at all we were forced to subscribe to cable or satellite. Now who and how did that happen?!!? I have a few ( Big Business) guesses (Big Business). They snuck that one past us pretty easy!!
The two articles below are both about TV and rates of such. I am about ready to tell them to stick it up their old wazoo and we will go to reading books, taking more walks and getting more Netflix movies.
Http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091229/ap_en_tv/us_free_broadcasters_in_peril
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091229/SPORTS020502/912290360/Sinclair-No-deal-Mediacom-hopeful
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