Experts: Comcast's Acquisition of NBC May End Free TV

Why in the first place did they shut off analog because digital reception is ify. Any weather change and its not clear your lucky if you get one channel let alone all the channels you would receive with analog and if you have satilite it completely shuts down. This is just another way the rich are trying to control the poor ie: politicians lining their pockets with the money they receive from the networks or rather kick backs from lobbyists that work for the politicians that have passed this requirement to have only digital TV. Some Networks that pay politicians to monopilize the airways. Slowly the government is gaining control of everything. Social security, medicare, healthcare, taxes, and now our freedom to watch tv you cant tell me they dont get enough money from their sponsores to support the networks. I've had both cable which give you a deal to lure your in when you first get their service but when the contract is over they double the price without any warning shut you off if you dont pay then charge you when you havent even got their service anymore for up to 2 monthes even after the contract is up this is true it happened to me. Satilite tells you get your equipment free and hook up is free then increase you rate without telling you and even charge more for service you already have. Then wonder why poor people, more the young group, hack into their internet connection and airwaves. WHO CAN AFFORD IT REALLY?

Another way to keep those of us who cannot or will not pay the exobitant prices for cable TV, out of the loop. I live on Social Security, and its not enough to pay for cable. So those of us who aren't contributing enough to the scramble for wealth will be better off dead if we don't get news of some emergency. I guess I can go back to radio. It encourages using the imagination more anyway. The greed of cable companies is appaling. They must be money grubbing republicans.

I watch OTA TV. I dropped cable 4 years ago because of rate increases and no new networks added. If OTA disappears, I would consider subscribing to either cable or satellite tv if they would offer "Al A Carte" programming. I only watched about 15 channels out of 60. I would gladly pay for only the channels I want instead of expensive packages stuffed with programs I would not care to watch.

If The National TV Broadcasters think that ending Free Over the Air TV is going to serve them as a way to coerce us into subscribing to any kind of pay TV in order to be able to watch their programming, they are dead wrong.
TELEVISION IS NOT A NECESSITY TO HUMAN SURVIVAL, WE CAN CONTINUE LIFE WITHOUT IT. It is a want not a need. It can be ditched just like most people have ditched their telephone landlines for other free or more economical methods of voice communication. The day they do this will be the last time I'll ever watch TV. I can understand that the present business model of free over the air broadcast is no longer working for their wallets, but in this economy struggling consumers are doing everything they can to stretch their dollars and spend them in things that really matter like rent, food, clothing, transportation, etc... If anything I will not waste my time seeing commercials trying to sell me things I don't need. I'll pop some corn in the microwave and watch a DVD movie at my own leisure. I'll open a traditional game board or a deck of cards and play like I used to years ago. There are always more constructive and active ways to participate and spend free time doing, other than sitting in front of a rectangular box.

Yes-we ARE just the peons who PAY for everyone's bail-outs and deficits and everyone elses healthcare- tho we have none. Sure, take away our free antenna t.v. too-- All the millions of us who won't be seeing your ads -to buy your products, pay your help etc. Senior citizens with some money won't be spending it, either, on your new products(that they won't be seeing without t.v.) Come to think of it -it will probably SAVE us peons mucho bucks too---not spending on all the ideas the wealthier people think of to get us to support THEM. We won't have any entertainment-except books-that tell us "How Not to Let the Big Guys Get the Better of Us". Probably we should be reading a lot more-BUT that IS OUR choice to watch t.v. or read a book. I CHOOSE to VOTE OUT these People who support this, along with the people who cannot stop "over spending", and putting PORK into the bills getting passed. I have had ENOUGH-paying the wealthy's way with nothing in return-not even t.v.