I must disagree and side with LIN TV. Although I live in Virginia, I was born and raised in Western NY and due to family health problems have been up there a lot lately. This past weekend my brother-in-law was claiming LIN TV was being greedy in requesting money for something people can get for free. I said well you pay for ESPN and his response was I can't get ESPN for free so I have to pay for it. I said you are not seriously suggesting that it is ok for people to have to pay for ESPN because they did not spend the millions to make it available over an antenna, but that it would be wrong to have to pay for CBS because they did spend the millions? I mean come on, TWC charges customers’ money to show this channel. It hardly seems right that they charge money to broadcast something they get for free. I have DIRECTV and trust me we pay for our locals as we should. Anyway I am sure it will be resolved soon, and as I am from Olean which is too far to get with rabbit ears, I know 2 people switching to DirecTV.
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I must disagree and side with LIN TV. Although I live in Virginia, I was born and raised in Western NY and due to family health problems have been up there a lot lately. This past weekend my brother-in-law was claiming LIN TV was being greedy in requesting money for something people can get for free. I said well you pay for ESPN and his response was I can't get ESPN for free so I have to pay for it. I said you are not seriously suggesting that it is ok for people to have to pay for ESPN because they did not spend the millions to make it available over an antenna, but that it would be wrong to have to pay for CBS because they did spend the millions? I mean come on, TWC charges customers’ money to show this channel. It hardly seems right that they charge money to broadcast something they get for free. I have DIRECTV and trust me we pay for our locals as we should. Anyway I am sure it will be resolved soon, and as I am from Olean which is too far to get with rabbit ears, I know 2 people switching to DirecTV.