Actually, our History, SciFi, Discovery etc are NOT part of our basic package.
Our basic package consists of the major channels out of New York rebroadcast on our local outlets. NY2, we get on CT3. NY4, we get on CT30 etc.
We get NY7 on both 7 and CT8, they must think we like that station. We get a lot of odd stations like Bounce TV which is usually old movies that no wants to watch. Not classics just 70s 80s 90s stuff that bombed at the box office.
We do get several PBS stations and I love that. We get 13 out of NY, 13 for kids (which I don't have any more) CPTV and CPTV4U all of which carry the public broadcasts. Some are duplicates, but some are great programing. I've been watching Garrow's Law and the new Upstairs Downstairs. They also gave us Downton Abby. History Detectives is usually interesting and at its best it is very good.
But after that we get a lot of Spanish Programing (no offence to our Spanish speaking members or anyone else, but I don't speak it well enough to watch TV in it) so I manually delete all of those.
But then we get the political channels for both the Federal and State government and watching them work is such a snooze. I don't how they stay awake!
And religious channels? We must get 6 or more and while the Evangelists must love it, those get manually deleted as well.
Of course we get all of the Shopping Channels - some of them on more than one channel number.
Basically (pun intended) we get appox 5 commercial channels, 4 PBS and that is about all I watch. Other than that TV is shut off and I read a good book. (I am no sports fan and thankfully neither are my husband or son. Yay. But I do have friends both male and female who live, sleep and eat sports and talk incessantly about football. One of my friends just posted on Face Book that she "was gonna get herself some Gronk" one weekend when the season began. She is a confirmed New England Patriots fan.)