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Originally Posted by Paul_Heery
I am enjoying this discussion. We have been looking at cutting the cable. But, we do have a desire to receive relatively local programming, mostly for watching the news.
We are in an area where we can get some signals. I plotted out our potential reception on DTV Reception Maps . What we want comes from different directions (mostly SSW & E). How do people handle this? The map is below.
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You can get a digital omni antenna and amplifier. If the stations are line of sight it works well.
For me, I just got a cheap digital antenna and pointed it at Mt Wilson in LA. I get about 50 broadcast stations (20 are useful) and use Tivo to record our favorite shows and local news. With Tivo I can record everything I want to watch and zap all commercials which is worth the $25 monthly fee to me. We also recently got Amazon Fire stick for Prime films and cable series shows like Band of Brothers and Vikings.
We don't watch a lot of TV these days but the choices are good at $25/mo.