Get an antenna: it isn't like the old days, since TV is digital, the picture comes in full HD with no static. A lot of people did this, leading to antenna and converter box shortages within Cablevision territory. Stores were not stocked up with extra antennas and boxes like they were last June. If it were NBC pulling its signal for the super bowl, I bet the stores would have also run out of aluminum foil and coat hangers
OTA television is under attack and none other than FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to take spectrum away from free TV. There's a very good article in the Wall Street Journal today, "The FCC's Misguided Spectrum Quest" mentioned in »Wednesday Morning Links here.