Why I don't have cable Part III(or II?)

I finally got a Shaw cable flyer with every channel you get if you subscribe to Shaw cable. You get 225 channels, but how many of those do you actually "need". Well I can't speak for you, but I can tell you how many of them I need.

• Global - aviable for free over the air!(meaning with an Antenna)
• CBC -OTA! Love CBC! Great chennl! And not owned by any cable network,  too!
• CTV -OTA
• CityTV -OTA
•  CBS - available for free over the air, I don't get it consistently,these days but if we invested in a new Antenna we probably could and this investment would be less then a couple of years of cable.
• CTV two - this station is available for free OTA but I'm not sure if the signal is strong enough for me too pick up from Barrie. I have not got it so far but I did a bit back in the analog days(at that time it was something like the New VR). A while ago I looked it up online, it's nothing special.
• NBC - This might be OTA, I know we don't get it but I don't think, it's annything speceil(not special enough to pay for cable) 
• PBS- I want, this! WNED is part of PBS, but sadly it's hard to get in Georgetown, always has been. The right Antenna would probably pick it up no sweat.
• Fox - sadly we lost this when we switched to digital and the OTA signal is not pointed at Toronto, however I don't remember anything good on it anyways. The New CW is a good replacement most of the time annways. 
• RDI - this a french CBC news network but I don't speak any French, enough said, next! 
• Shaw Direct weather network and The Weather Network - I don't really care for a channel that broadcasts nothing but weather and I have TWN's WeatherEye on my PC, so I can get the weather anytime on my PC(which is most of the time). If I'm on the go, I also have a few weather apps on my Android tablet.(wow that's a bit better then cable issen't it). These apps are FREE! 
• SRC - anuther french CBC channel, next! (might be the one we have OTA)
• BCLEG - No clue what this one is, oddly does not show up on a Google search. 
• Shaw) Direct - don't know what this is, pair-pear-view? Channel listing? If it is PPV that would be nice, but not wort buying cable just for that. Besids the Halton Hills Public Libary has a tun of good movies and TV shows. 
• CKWS - not shure what this, is, their website is http://www.ckwstv.com/, it does not look like I am missing much. It apppears to be a news network, the do strream the news live online which is cool!
• CTS - OTA but out of range, when I did get back in the anolog days, they really diden't have that much interesting stuff on. 
• Something with a V and small letters I can't read - no comment
• AMI audio - Free stream online! The "bandwidth" to "download" it will cost us something but problly not enough to worry about. 
• TVA - French!
• MCTV - apprently this is CTV form northern Candia, I fail to see whats unique about this over the "normal" CTV and why would I want to pay for it. 
• ABC - anouther station which we need a better Antanna for. 
• CHIN AM - this RADIO STATION is aviable for FREE Over The Air and I have a clock radio,so why do I need this on my TV?
• APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, cool that it exits but I don't think it's "for me". 
• CHCH -WOW! this Chanel broadcasts NEWS and MOVIES, ALL DAY 7 days a week! It must be a premium cable channel but interestingly enough it's OTA from Hamilton. They current digital channel is on VHF 11 which is hard to recive on most antannes, if not imposiblle(you need good rabbit ears). When they where first experimenting with digital they had a stronger UHF(18?) and they analog signal was not too bad. They are awhere of the problem and are working on a solution.It is not owned by a big cable company, while a lot of the other stations are.
• CHEX - this is a local station from Peterborough, Ontario, it mainly re-brodcats CBC stuff, so I don't see why you would want this AND cbc. If you live in Peterborough, Ontario, apparently it broadcasts in Analog(if you have not swiched to digital yet) 
• CJBN - a local chennel owned by Shaw), it seems to broadcast shows available OTA, so there is no need for this channel.
• ONMI 1 and ONMI 2 - OTA and one of them has very good Balloywood movies. 
• TFO - another french channel. Didn't TVP broadcast they feed on Sundays nights back in the 90s?(someone else without cable confirm this)
• TVO - CERMETIAL FREE OTA TV! (it's paid for by donations) and they have a lot of great programs. It's also not owned by a big cable company, maybe that lest one on the list not to bee. 
•  epac - I think this was anouther french one. 
• CP24 - local Toronto news. I'm not really interested in news from Toronto. I get all that I need from CBC local news at 11:55 PM. 
• Global HD - OTA, Global HD and SD are sub-channels OTA.
• CBC HD - actually the ONLY CBC channel being broadcast OTA IS HD! There is only so much room in a cable pipe for all these channels to be HD 1080i but there IS enough room OTA. Oddly enough CBC is only broadcasting at 720P. If you don't have an HDTV your ATSC converter box will downscale the image to 480i latter-boxed. 
• CTV HD - again the only OTA brodcast is HD.
• CityTV HD - same as the above 
• ABCHD - same 
• Fox HD - well what I said before about Fox is true but if I did get it, it would be HD. 
• NBC HD - same as the other HD channels in this section. 
• PBS HD - same 
• CNN HD - Don't need HD full-day news. 
• TVA HD - I think I said I don't want TVA, so I don't need the HD vertion, thank you. 
• Nat Go WILD - I Heard of this a while ago. It's all sorts of "action packed" National Geographic, and by "action packed" I mean like liones eating other animals and volcanoes and expansionists. Now I like explosions as much as the next guy but I don't think this is my "cup of tea".
• 3D - I think the whole 3D thing is a gimic.(which I admit a fall for every time but a gamic still the same)
• Space HD - I've seen space SD  a bit when I went to my grandparents house and I have to admit, it's pity good! On the other hand Dr.Who and Stargate are available for free at my local library and I like Trek enough that eventually  I will buy the other seasons I need to complete my collection(hay! There expensive!), so it's not that "needed" is it?
• Naninal Geographic HD - what happened to discovery channel, I like that one, mainly because of Myth Busters. Anyways it does not sound like a bad channel but I don't think it's worth the price of cable alone(or with space) 
• Show Case HD - hmm.. interesting, not sure what kind of shows this channel has, so I can't really use it aganst cable. 
• News - I have enough news at my fingertips online(which I know you pay for but my counter-argument is you don't 'need' cable AND Internet), I am also not a big news guy when so much of the TV news is sad. 
• Kids - I think where getting into the "extras" section, anyways, I'm not that interested in kids shows these days, although I would probably watch a "classic" Scobby-Do if it where on but mainly for nistaulga(we used to watch it at my grand-presents house on Teletoon). I also like Bugs Bunny(does anyone remember when it was on Saturday night on Global?)
• Sports- I'm not a sports guy, even though I worked on a sports website.
• Acctully specialty channles
• 40 Galixy Chanels - I don't know what this is. 
• History channel - not for me 
• Comedy - Last time I saw it, I was not too impressed with it, a lot of the programs they had on where "not my style" 
• W network - is this a channel for women? Odd concept, annways I have no interest in this. 
• Action channel - I hate to change aurguments here but I think I have better things to do with my life then watch action movies all day.
  (and those are avaible in east and west verities, if you really need that for some odd reason) 
• Show Case SD - Ok, I allready have the HD vertion, why do I need the SD vertion 
• TVTropiles - A Shaw exesive which I don't really care about.
• Lifetime - Anouther one which I'm not too sure what it is. 
• The Shopping Channel - From what I've seen on Dragon's Den, enterpenels can sometimes get a good deal, selling they stuff through the shopping channel. I think it's a neat concept but is not interesting to me at the moment, maybe after I get a full-time job. 
• CMT - This could be Cuntry Music Televistion but thats not for me. 
• barvo - fashion chenel? Whatever it is I'm not interested in buying cable to get it. 
• marclei(so small) - no comment 
• speed - not instersted in raceing(assuming that's what this is) 
• Go whild SD - I have HD, why do I need this? Why cann't they get me SD or HD whatever I need. 
• slice - apprently this is acctully a chanel aimed at wionen, next 
• Mtv -I've heard of MTV, music? not instrested, next 
• food channel - you know this channel would be interesting too have. I would watch it if I was board and had nothing else too do.
• MUCH - I don't muhc like much music eaither, no pun inteded but it's a good idea :) 
• GSN - the games chenel, who comes up with these things. If that poker(I did not look at the site), then I'm not really intrested but I know a lot of bars of movies play this all day long.(I don't really go to bars in real life)
• spark - channel for teens, not intrested, next 
• Nanantial geographic SD - yah you know how I feel about this. 
• HGTV- not interesting too me but my Mom loves this one.(She watched it a bit at my granpents's). Since this is my blog I'm going to not let this influence me but even if there where a facter I don't think it's worth it to get cable just for this channel.
• A&E - art and entertainment, it was on once "back in the day" and asked what A&E stood for. Anyways not for me.
• Space SD - well I already ranted on that.
• TCM  - uh classical music, cool! I actually have nothing positive or negative to say about this one.
• OWN - apprently Ophra Wihph orhowever you spell it, now has her own channel, who knew? anyways this is of no interest to me.
• OLN - A realatiy TV channel. You know I might be able to get into this if I where borad. Apprently relativy TV is the resault of a writers strick in the 90's(or was it early 2000's) 
• Bite - Blue Caller TV, odd but not my thing
• E - I think this is related too E-talk, I don't really like that show. Next. [btw Global is now owned by Shaw) and they also put on E-talk so, yah there is a connection]
• AMI -Looks kind of interesting
• GraceTV - cable Christine programming. Not interested.
• GameTV - I don't like this any more then the other gameing chennel 
• MovieTime - CHCH annyone, once they change back to UHF off-course.
• TLC - A documenty channel, not sure if it's interesting or not. 
• Discovry chennel - I would not mind having this channel, espessly for Myth Busters but is it worth paying for cable, yet, I don't think so. 
• Spike - I once saw this at my grandparents appointment, it TV just for guys. Most of it is not my thing except for the occinstal eposode of Star Trek: TNG 
• 40 channels of cemerial free readio: Ok that's not a bad gig, actually. To bad I'm not a music person. 
• PPV TALC - Dossen't sound to instersting 
• CHOOS RADIO - after the 40 channels of cermetial free radio, I don't think I need another station.

So I hope you know understand why I don't have cable(apart from the fact that my parsents won't buy it eaither). If nothing else this was something to rant about and a good use of something that would otherwise be junk mail.