I used to get cable for free in my last apartment. I don't have it now, and don't miss it. Of the shows I enjoy, I can get all of them on the free-to-air channels (with an antenna) but one, which I watch on-line. But I watch a lot less TV than I used to. A year in a foreign country with 5 tv stations all of them showing last year's American and Australian prime time drama cured me a bit of my TV habit