kaze0

Does anyone else cancel cable for the summer. All the big shows are generally done by May and don't start new seasons till September.

Last year I attempted to cancel cable in the summer, cablevision just gave me discounts for 6 months so my tv bill was 0. This year I just canceled cable in December during that break in new episodes and havent even looked back. Everything I watch is available online form abc.com, nbc.com or fox's stupid myspace thing.

Red Dog

No.

If all you are interested in are the 'big shows' (presumably broadcast tv shows), why do you have cable to begin with?

sassylaurie

Yes we only sign up for directv during football season and then cancel after.

rfduncan

No way! What about The Closer, Eureka, 4400 and Always Sunny in Philadelphia!?!?!

wendersfan

Often, in odd-numbered years. In even-numbered years there's either a World Cup or a European Cup, so having the dish signal is a must for that.

Doug Heffernan

No I don't, and no offense to the OP, I can't even imagine being so strapped for cash that I would ever do this.

Chew

I have OTA HD from my Series 3 TiVo with lifetime service.

There's nothing to cancel.

Red Dog

Missed 2 big ones: Rescue Me and Big Love.

Honestly, I tend to watch a lot more cable in the summer than broadcast tv. Gives me an opportunity to watch a lot of stuff on the History Ch., Discovery, Nat'l Geo, etc. There is hardly anything on broadcast tv I watch; not even sports except for the big golf events.

Vipper II

The money I'd save by canceling cable would be spent reinstating it at the end of the summer. There's always that surcharge that accompanies account changes.

RichC2

I have basic cable (like 30 channels), it makes Cable Internet about $10 cheaper.

(If you have just Cable Internet here, it's like $60 a month. If you have any cable plan, then Cable Internet is $40 a month, cheapest plan being $10 so it comes out to $50.)

But it's mostly broadcast (OTA sucks here) channels and a few cheaper cable channels, like Style, TVGuide, Discovery Health and Weather.

B.A.

I pride myself on not having a monthly television bill.

kaze0

OTA reception is practically non existant here with any of the antennas I've tried.

Shady12

Well, this summer I plan to watch Monk, the Dead Zone, the Closer, the 4400, It's Always Sunny....so, no.

superdeluxe

No. What would I do without ESPN?

Ayre

Eureka
Heartland
Kyle XY
The 4400
Monk

wendersfan

What does being strapped for cash have to do with anything? Some summers I watch no television at all (as I mentioned above.) Why would I pay for something I'm not using?

Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.

I don't because its too much of a hassle to get it reconnected

Josh H

No, need it for baseball and other sports crap.

If not for sports, I'd ditch it all together as I pretty much only watch broadcast shows anyway. Well, technically I can't in my current place as the broadcast channels come in like shit over the air here (probably due to having a big radio station 2 blocks away).

Red Dog

Yep - even if I didn't watch cable during the summer, it isn't worth the hassle of having to deal with Comcast customer service.

madcougar

Isn't there usually a reconnection fee?

To answer the orignal question, no as my kids are home and that would be cruel.

DRG

Do people really just spend all summer outside? I always thought was just a myth. Or maybe I just hate sunburns and mosquitoes.

wendersfan

For me it's just a phone call to Dish Network.

Michael Corvin

I'm calling them next week. I mean we're talking about saving about $50 a month for nearly 4 months. No reconnect fee is going to be $200.

I'm canceling because I just picked up the HD-Tivo two weeks ago and I'm going strictly OTA... for good.

wendersfan

I spend a lot more time outside between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm in the summer, and I'm usually doing something physically active like golf, cycling, or gardening.

Other than sports, which should be read "European soccer", I don't watch more than a couple of hours of TV in a week anyway. Giving that up is no big loss.

Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.

last time I had my cable re-connected, they had to make 3 service calls. 1st time was a contractor who fried the cable boxes, 2nd time was a guy from comcast who did some wiring and ended up forgetting to bring the cable boxes, and 3rd time they finally got it right.