This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013:
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This week, we turned off most of our cable service. We’ve pared back to the basic broadcast network package and internet.
Part of it is simply a family cost-cutting measure – it should save our household about $1,000 during the next year to go without the full-fledged package that included the digital DVR and a few premium channels like HBO and Showtime.
But mostly it’s the result of recognizing that we simply don’t need hundreds of channels that we rarely watch.