How to Cut your Cable with Over the Air TV and Save Money

Most households have not idea about Over the Air (OTA) TV.  It has been around for a long time.  Remember the rabbit years before cable?  Well, there was a time where TV was OTA.  Cable TV came in (1948 in the USA and 1952 in Canada) and satellite TV started many years after being adopted in the 1990s.  The large companies who own cable and satellite broadcasting services are now controlling (by packaging and content) and delivering all of our TV channels to us.  This is what most people believe, right?  The fact is we still have Over the Air TV all over North America (and the world)!

The US (FCC) and Canadian (CRTC) have mandated that Over the Air TV must be maintained.  Thus, all TV channels are on OTA.  Cable and Satellite companies don’t like that fact.  It gets better, there has been a move from analog signals to digital.  (The reason was to make room for more analog emergency and authority broadcast systems to be available on OTA.)  This means that OTA TV signals went digital as well (although you can still get OTA analog broadcast channels).

Now, that it has been established that there is Over the Air TV and you don’t need cable or satellite to watch it.  This means that you don’t have to pay a monthly bill for access to TV channels.  That means,

 IT’S FREE!!

Ask yourself, … why did you not know about this or maybe you did but you might not know how many HD TV channels you can get Over the Air.

The OTA channels you can get depends on 7 things which are:

1.        Your location with respect to broadcasting towers.
2.        The signal strength of the broadcast.
3.        The number of broadcasting towers in your area.
4.        The range of your OTA TV antenna.
5.        Obstructions from a direct line of sight to the broadcast tower (buildings, hills, and trees).
6.        The number of channels the broadcast towers provide.
7.        The weather (bad weather means you might lose some channels for that time as OTA signals get impediments and fluctuations from moving debris and trees).

If you are thinking about how much you are paying for cable TV and that you might want to cut your cable and go with HD TV Over the Air then you need to come back to for all the reasons you should or should not cut your cable for HD Over the Air TV.

The new Indoor Over the Air TV Antenna now has a range of 120 miles (193 Km).  This will allow you to get the most of what is available from TV broadcast towers in the area around Lake Ontario.

Below are links to the best products for the project to get Over the Air FREE TV.  There are 2 antennas.  The outdoor antenna has a 150 mile (241 Km) range.

There is NO Adjustable Outdoor Antenna Mount Pole - Attic Antenna Mount in the Outdoor TV Antenna Package for $50.00 CDN (above).