How We Survive Without Cable
Watch Free TV Online in Canada on the Internet
Cable television here in Calgary costs from $36.00 – $121.00 + tax per month. One way that we cut costs on our monthly budget is by not having cable. We never had it in Australia, and so far we are surviving pretty well not having it here.
What I think a lot of people who do pay for cable don’t realize is that a lot of the programming that you can get through cable is freely available on-line if you have a high speed Internet connection. I’m not talking about stealing content through illegal video downloads or watching it on YouTube. I’m not even talking about purchasing videos through iTunes or a service like Netflix. I’m talking about watching TV Shows for free on-line.
Below is a list of 18 stations that make a portion of their shows available for free viewing on-line:
Free On-Line Canadian Television (TV) Stations
- http://www.ctv.ca
- http://www.cbc.ca
- http://www.citytv.com
- http://www.globaltv.com/
- http://www.foodnetwork.ca/
- http://www.spacecast.com/
- http://www.discoverychannel.ca/
- http://www.hgtv.ca
- http://www.ctstv.com
- http://www.atv.ca/
- http://www.scn.ca/
- http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa
- http://www.bravo.ca/
- http://www.family.ca/
- http://www.muchmusic.com/
- http://www.ytv.com/
- http://www.history.ca/
- http://www.mtv.ca/
Considering all the options available, plus free movies from the library, and new release DVD rentals for only $1.88 I don’t really see any need for us to have cable in our house. It’s actually a pretty easy way for us to save $36 – $121 per month.
You mean we have cut costs by not having TV at all since we would have to first buy a satellite to get any stations…much less cable.
Yeah, our TV doesn't pick up any stations at the moment. We would have to purchase an external antenna to pick up any stations since the reception of broadcast over the air TV is so poor in our area.
We cancelled our satellite and only use netflix and what is available online through the TV networks websites. Not only is it soooo much cheaper, but we find we are much less likely to just sit and watch ‘whatever’s on’. When we watch something we are much more careful about it and end up watching less TV overall. We also find without all the commercials and by being more choosy about what we’re watching we are bombarded with less of the inappropriate stuff that is on TV.