JenEllen (Hi)

Like you, I live in a low place river valley where nothing gets to us through the air. To watch anything at all we've got to have cable. What is offered here on basic is pure crap-. I've chosen to forego TV and go with the Chicago Tribune and NPR-radio. Our building has a TV in it's lobby where I can watch news. Tonight I'll be watching the seventh game of the World Series down there. But generally, we' built a good library of recorded video films and we also rent. That's about all.

The day our cable provider allows me to pick the channels I want to buy, that's when I might give them my business again.

I've been without TV for a few years now. I don't miss it. My feelings are that your returning to the vastness of the wasteland that American TV has become, much worse than anything Newt Minnow ever envisioned, will be quite depressing for you. Enter at your own peril-----and bring plenty Zoloft and caffeine.

Art Thieme