Originally posted by bac
I scratch my head regarding my $55/month OLN expense.
We had OLN on our basic expanded cable last Spring for the Giro, etc... Just before the TdF they reshuffled the channels and moved OLN over to the digital cable... Of course, we only discovered this when my wife went to flip on the Tour. The next day I put the Direct TV dish on the roof of the house and that afternoon we had the tour. Cancelled the cable and haven't regretted it since.
I justify the Satellite TV expense by noting that it's about the same as the digital cable service that was offered to us, only suffers signal outages in the worst torrential downpours (not all that often) and gives me access to SpeedTV; something that disappeared from our previous cable service a long time ago.
So, at least for us, dumping cable has been a positive experience.