# My great OTA TV experiment may be ending soon... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010 "2013-06-14T18:21:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010/21 "2013-07-01T20:54:46Z")
No, I understood what he meant. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010/22 "2013-07-01T21:03:39Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > No, I understood what he meant. Gotcha. Jokes on me I guess for trying to give you a diplomatic out from that overly snarky and sarcastic reply. ---
**Author:** ![60wag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/7ba0ec/32.png) [@60wag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/60wag)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010/23 "2013-07-01T21:52:57Z")
As someone who has never had cable, I don’t get it, (literally and figuratively.) When I stay in a motel with cable, I’ll flip through a bunch of channels finding a similar saturation of commercials and recycled programming to OTA programming. People pay for this? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010/24 "2013-07-01T23:27:03Z")
> [@60wag](#): > > As someone who has never had cable, I don’t get it, (literally and figuratively.) When I stay in a motel with cable, I’ll flip through a bunch of channels finding a similar saturation of commercials and recycled programming to OTA programming. People pay for this? Of course they do. It’s simple math: 1000 \>\>\>\>\>\> 6 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010/25 "2013-07-02T01:00:32Z")
FWIW, I’m a “she.” > [@Munch](#): > > Well gosh, if you’re really “working” at watching shows you enjoy, you must have some sort of time management problem. I would _never_ consider idle entertainment consumption to be “work”. :rolleyes: Jesus, **Munch** , who pissed in your cornflakes this morning? > [@60wag](#): > > People pay for this? I’m sure there are things you pay for (or would) that I wouldn’t consider worth the money. What’s your point? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-great-ota-tv-experiment-may-be-ending-soon/661010.md?page=1)