We finally cut the cable cord and went with an outdoor TV antenna. There are so many channels FREE you can get. We used a company named Mr. Antenna. They did the entire installation. Yes you get all your locals plus stations that show old tv shows, westerns, old movies, religion, and others like QVC shopping.
Record and guide: we bought a Tivo Bolt which we record 4 shows at a time. We pay a yrly fee for a program guide like cable had and we can pause a show too. The yrly fee for the features may be more or less what cable costs per month!
Downfall: Tivo does not keep the guide up always for station changes. So if say ME TV station moved, you may not know right away. But i do work with Tivo to get it corrected.
If you know of a better solution, let me know!
But with my antenna and the subscription to other items like Netflix which by the way my Tivo guide shows my app, who needs to pay high cable prices?!