We live in a very rural area of PA and we have free TV. Have since 1986. We live on top of a hill, point our antennas east and get the best HD tv, and it is free. All the major networks plus extras. There are also many web sites like Hulu to watch many shows for free. We just hook up the computer through a HDMI or RGB cable and watch it on the big screen. I did a search one day and found 64 episodes of Sky King for free.
http://www.americanflyers.net/entertainment/skyking.asp
There are web sites like
http://www.archive.org that have old radio shows and old kinescope recordings from the very early days of television. Why pay when it is free.
As you can guess I like free!!