This data is based on Nielsen Galaxy Explorer estimates for combined broadcast and cable numbers and is for Ad-Supported Subscription television only.

With cable and satellite TV providers

• DirecTV Group Inc., gained 460,000 net subscribers
• Dish posted a net loss of 94,000 subscribers in the quarter, even though it actually added 653,000 subscribers, due to cancellations, signal theft and increased competition. Dish now has 13.6 million subscribers nationwide.
• Time Warner Cable Inc., AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. also gained customers.
• Comcast is using its digital cable TV technology, to deliver bvalue added features such as video on demand, HDTV, and interactive TV. Digital TV technology also supports a Digital Video Recorder. Comcast also provides a high speed Internet (at five times the speed of DSL) and home phone services.

Here are the Top 100 shows in the important adults 18-49 demographic for the Week ending May 3rd, 2009, which is Week 32 of the 2008-2009 Broadcast Season.

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Wireless cable TV has two different meanings. They are both explained below.

1. Domestic Wireless Cable TV

The most common meaning currently refers to a device, often called a Wireless Video Sender, that enables you to watch cable on multiple TVs in your house, without paying extra to the cable TV company.

With a Wireless Video Sender, you can send cable, DVDs, DVR, TiVo, DirecTV and more from one TV to another TV any location in the house.

So for example If you want to watch a DVD in the living room which has the cable connection, while your partner watches TV upstairs, you hook the sender up to the cable box, and it then sends the cable signal to a matching receiver that is connected to the upstairs TV.

The benefits are:

• you don’t have to run any wires, because the video sender is wireless
• there’s no need to pay extra cable fees
• it’s completely legal.

You should be able to find a wireless cable TV box in the price range of $40-$100 for the pair - sender and receiver.

2. Broadcast Wireless Cable TV

Secondly wireless cable TV was a name given to a service technically called “Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service”, or more commonly shortened to MMDS.

MMDS is a type of cable television system that offers its subscribers a mix of satellite channels by transmitting the programming over the allocated MMDS frequencies.

Wireless cable TV uses Super High Frequency (”SHF”) channels to transmit satellite cable programming over-the-air instead of through overhead or underground wires.

The Benefits of Wireless Cable TV to Subscribers

There are two main benefits

1. Good Reach and Availability: A Wireless Cable TV service can be delivered in areas of low population density and other areas where it is too expensive to build a traditional cable station, because the population is too thinly spread.
2. Low Cost & Affordable: Because the costs of building a Wireless Cable Station are cheaper than running cables past every subscriber, cost savings can be passed on to subscribers.

Warnings:

1.  The performance and quality of the sites is variable and you can spend a lot of time trying to find the cable TV channels you want.

Q. How many Japanese Quiz shows or Chinese Reality TV programs are there?

A. More than you ever imagined!

So if you find a good site with the cable TV channels you’re looking for, make sure you bookmark it!

2. A lot of the sites are focused on adult TV channels, so don’t go surfing with your kids or in-laws watching before you’ve checked the channels out first!

Freetube

http://freetube.110mb.com/

Freetube lets you watch live tv online for free without any special software or hardware. You can select from several channels and watch your favourite tv shows.

ChannelKing

http://www.channelking.com/

Channel King claims to offer over 280 free Internet TV channelNews including:
» BBC News 24
» BBC World
» C-Span 1
» C-Span 2
» C-Span 3
» CBC News Now
» CBC News The National
» CCTV International
» Energy News TV
» LCN
» Nasdaq Stock Market
» NBC Los Angeles
» Nightly Business Report
» Russia Today
» WSVN 7 News
Weather
» KITV 4
» Milwaukee Weather
» Weather Now
Information
» Bahn TV
» BBC Parliament
» BYU TV
» Information TV
» New Tang Dynasty TV
» Pentagon Channel
» Research Channel
» SCC TV
Games
» Arena TV
» Game On TV
» PG24
» WPTV Games
» Yuks TV Game Previews
Music
» All Music
» Clipland TV
» CSU Pomona TV
» E-Music
» Eurofolk TV
» Global Gospel Radio
» Gospel Music
» JCTV
» Marina FM Cam
» Ministry of Sound
» Music Box
» Nova Television
» Party Patrol TV
» Rock TV 70s
» Rock TV 80s
» Rock TV 90s
» Rock TV Hard
» Rock TV New
» Rock TV Progressive
» Rock TV Soft Rock
» RTV Channel
» RTVI
» StreetClip TV
» Tiscali Music
» TV Fly
Fashion & Lifestyle
» Holiday TV
Cartoons & Youth
» CCCSAT
» Smile Of A Child TV
Movies
» Moovee
» TV Knob FLX
Reality
Shopping
» Bid Up TV
» Gems TV
» Home Shopping Network
» Jewelry Channel
» Price Drop TV
» Speed Auction TV
Sports
» Boardriders TV
» EuroSport Russia
» Loures TV
» Sportal TV
Entertainment
» Bigpond TV
» Caught On Video
» Dubbed TV
» Hyp TV
» ROO TV
» Streaming Radio TV
» Tiscali TV
Miscellaneous
» HDTV Channel 1
Religion
» Church Channel
» FITVOne
» Trinity Broadcasting
Adult (18+ Only)

FreeTVonline

http://www.freetvonline.com/

Claims to have:

1. Video On Demand - Watch your favorite full-length TV shows from a directory of thousands of streaming video links.
2. Live TV - Watch free streaming internet TV from around the world.
3. Viral Videos - Search and watch all of the hottest videos online.
4. Premium TV Online - View 3000+ Live TV channels on your PC.

Streamick

http://www.streamick.com/

Streamick provides a selection of premium free live cable TV channels from USA, UK and other english speaking countries, organized by genre, ranked by quality and constantly updated.

The channel selection includes:

• News 24/7

Sky News, NBC News, BBC World, Al Jazeera English, France 24, Press TV, Russia today, ITN, IBN, Doordarshan India News

• Sport

ESPN, EuroSport, EuroSport RU, Sportal TV, MLB, Setanta Sports News, Hockey TV, BigPond Sport, Martial Arts TV, SpeedUp TV

• Music

Ministry of Sound, MTV Qoob, E-Music TV, Nick Hits, Slam!TV, RockTV Hard n Heavy, Invincible TV, Kiss TV, Bigpond Music TV, JC TV, more..

• Entertainment

Fox 11, Caught on Video, KNDO NBC 23, Fox 5 KVVU, CW 31, Fox 31 Colorado, Globetrekker TV, CN8, Classic Cartoons, WKYT CBS 27

• Cinema

Maxx-xs Movie Trailers, Western TV, SCI-FI Channel, Star Channel, ReelGood TV, AFTV Sci-Fi, Thriller Classics, AFTV Horror, RTV Besa, AFTV Adventure

• Busines

Bloomberg USA, CNBC India, Bloomberg UK, Home and Travel, Real estate TV, TV Shop UK, Its about finance, IdealWorld TV, Energy News Daily, Frontier TV

• Educationa

Discovery channel, The Earth Channel, NASA TV, Wildlife Channel, The Michigan Channel, Kamu-TV, ATTV, Annenberg, UAS TV, CSU Pomona

• Local

7 news Miami, WNEP 16, KTBS 3, KWQC-TV 6 Iowa, KARE11 Minnesota, WSM TV, WDSU 6 Louisiana, SFGTV 2 Live, Denver 8, Wesh 2 Orlando

• Public acces

Scan Live Seattle, Access Sarasota, ETC North Georgia, Information TV, G1NBC TV, B-TV 28, Coral Gables, Miami Gov, SFGTV, TRC 11

• Other

Fashion TV, HDTV Test, The Police channel, HDTV2 Gaming, BabyTV UK, Torque TV, The Research Channel, Country channel, The Knot TV, Netgaming TV, …

There are sites that offer a selection of free live cable TV channels from USA, UK and other english speaking countries, such as:

• http://www.streamick.com/ that offers and in-screen player for (apparently) live cable tv feeds.

• http://www.worldtvpc.com/ which is a site with useful links to other sites

• http://www.zeropaid.com/ which is all about p2p, file sharing, digital media and technology. It provide guides, a comprehensive list of file sharing programs with user reviews and ratings, fresh daily technology news, and informative discussion forums.

• http://www.worldtvpc.com/ which is a mix of live streams onsite and links to other feeds

There are also the official sites that offer a selection of recorded videos, but not live feeds, example:

• http://www.foxsports.com

Then there are programs such as sopcast that install a special access and decoder program on your PC. With sopcast you get free live p2p channels, free p2p Broadcasting, free SopCast embedded.

• http://sopcast.com/ for details of how to use the service

If you live in an area that only has one cable company available, which unfortunately is the case in several areas in the United States, you usually still have other options.

By using satellite TV providers such as DISH Network and DIRECTV you have an alternative to traditional Cable TV.

You can use DISH Network and DIRECTV as long as your home has a view of the southern sky.

Choosing the cheapest Cable Provider

Another good service for findin gthe cheapest provider is Whitefence. Just search for them with Yahoo or MSN and you can view prices and plans for all television service providers in your area from their site.

Even better, the quality from the free over-the-air signal will be better than you can get from cable or satellite providers, because the signal is not as compressed.

Digital signals are available right now and you just need an antenna to receive them. When a digital program is broadcast in high definition, like many prime-time shows are, you’ll have excellent picture quality.

Second Point:
You will need an HDTV with an “ATSC tuner,” - the good news us all new TVs have one of these.

Third Point:
You will need an appropriate antenna. To find a suitable antenna, go online to http://www.antennaweb.org and follow the link, “Choose an antenna.”

Once you’ve set up the antenna, you’ll be able to pull in broadcast stations such as PBS, Fox and NBC, but not cable stations such as ESPN or the Food Network. You’ll have to pay a cable or satellite provider for those.

Here is a second way to get high-definition programming, along with answers to some reader questions.

How To Get HDTV With A Basic Cable Package

You can also obtain HDTV with the most basic cable TV package and no cable box.

For this you’ll need a high-definition television with a quadrature amplitude modulation, or QAM, tuner.

Many new TVs have a QAM tuner - your TV’s instruction manual should indicate whether it does or not. If it doesn’t you can also buy a stand-alone QAM tuner.

You’ll also need a cable TV package, even if it’s the cheapest broadcast-only offering.

1. Screw the coaxial cable directly into your TV.
2. Then go into your HDTV setup menu. For the source of the signal, select something like “digital cable” or DTV.
3. Then force your TV to automatically search for channels.
4. When it’s done, scroll through the channels.

With digital TV channels, you’ll find multiple subchannels under the same number, labeled something like 87-2. The digital channels should look noticeably better and when a digital program is being broadcast in high-definition, it will fill the elongated screen of your HDTV and look really clear.

The channels will probably have strange-looking names with lots of numbers in them, but your TV should allow you to change the on-screen label to something meaningful e.g. ABC, CBS, CW and so on.

How is this useful?
If you use your HDTV in say the bedroom for limited TV watching and you don’t want to avoid paying for another HD cable box, you can use this method to obtain broadcast digital and HD channels.

Or, if you don’t want to mess with an antennaand you only need the broadcast channels you can pay for the lowest level of non-digital cable TV service and still receive digital and HD broadcasts.

An extra benefit is that in some markets you’ll receive multiple networks from different cities, which allows you to view more local news or sports events than you would otherwise see.

Caveats:
1. You will mostly get broadcast channels, meaning no high-def ESPN or Discovery Channel because those channels are encrypted and not accessible with the QAM tuner.
2. You also won’t get an interactive TV schedule grid, and you won’t be able to pull up on-demand content.
3. Your QAM tuner won’t work with satellite TV signals.

If so, there are several options for you. Some of them are free, some are not, but importantly they are all alternative and legal ways to enjoy TV.

Right now the key point to remember is that if it’s free and has no advertising, the programming content is likely only to be average at best, total piffle at worst.

Advertising ensures that content creators and video artists can make money and thus make more content. But hey, if the service is free, I’m happy to watch a few ads.

Often the free services collect demographic data from you when you register and use a Google type model to serve you with contextually and demographically relevant ads. e.g. if you’re a vegan Democrat voter they won’t try to serve you ads for a bacon burger fundraiser, where the profits go to the Republican party.

Free TV Options:

Joost

This is a free TV site paid for by advertising and will soon be bringing you shows from several major networks. You can’t skip the ads, but you’ll see a lot less of them than on television.

Worldwide Media Project.

This site provides streaming video stations from around the world, although the selection is somewhat limited at this point.

MyEasyTV.

This claims to have over 3000 internet TV channels. Again, lots of them you probably won’t want to watch.

Fancast.

This site offers full-length TV shows, movie clips, and trailers.

Surf The Channel
This website acts as a search engine for internet content.

Network TV websites.
If you check out their websites, you’ll find many networks offer online versions of their first-run shows right after they air on TV.

Cable TV Alternatives

Netflix is the stand out here, but you have to pay. The benefit though is that their services are affordable and reliable and you don’t have to watch ads. They now also provide streaming video from their site.

The changeover from the system of analog broadcasting to a digital TV system is scheduled for next year.

On D-Day (aka Digital Day) Feb. 18, 2009, if you have an old-style, analogue televisions and receive programming “over-the-air” i.e. via an antenna, you will no longer receive a picture.

You will need to buy a converter box to sit between your antenna and your TV to convert the new digital signal into an analogue signal your old TV can understand.

If you have an over-the-air antennas but have already purchased a digital-ready television set or adapter boxes, then you don’t need to do anything, you are ready for the switch.

If you are on cable television or a satellite system, you will have the digital conversions handled through by the cable or satellite companies.

Note: The government is offering two $40 coupons per household to be used toward converter boxes for those who do not have televisions with cable TV or satellite dishes. The coupons may be obtained online by going to www.dtv.gov or by calling the 24-hour hotline at 1-888-388-2009.

P.S. The $40 government coupons for converter boxes are intended to defray the costs of the converters, not cover the full price which is probably goin gto be around $50 to $70.

You have almost certainly noticed internet advertisements promoting PC software that lets you to watch satellite TV on PC for free.

Generally the ads say you need to pay just once for the software and then you casn watch as many channels as you like. Being able to get instant access to thousands of television channels for less than $50 sounds like a great deal!

So is this for real or just a scam?

Essentially what the ads promise is the software on your PC means you can:

1. Watch satellite TV on PC without paying monthly television bills to satellite and cable television providers.

2. Avoid buying an ugly, expensive satellite dish.

Reality Bites
The reality is there are many versions of this type of software on the market, but only a handful of them deliver high quality channels with affordability. A lot of them are, plainly speaking, rubbish.

Signs of Scammers

If you don’t want to risk losing your money to a scam, its important to find the software that lives up to its promises and gives you value for money.

Avoid the scenarios where:

(a) you hand over your credit card details, your card gets overcharged and the download link for the software is for soething that in reality doesn’t work. Then you can’t get a refund no matter how hard you try.

(b) you download the software and it works in a fashion, but you soon realize that the channel selection is much poorer than what was promised, and the quality is poor.

(c) you are caught by scams with online auctions, including eBay, where the download link may be purchased for as low as $1! You are likely to get a menu of free satellite TV channels available on the Internet, but often the majority of the channels are obsolete or non-functional.

Look For:

(a) satellite TV on PC software with independent reviews and feedback.

(b) references from a friend or relative who might have tried the software already and can provide you with helpful information.

(c) websites that provide ad and spyware protection with their PC satellite TV software and

(d) a money back guarantee.

Software are sold by established and reputable merchants using payment processors like ClickBank can be relied upon.

Summary
It is possible to watch satellite TV on PC as many are already doing so. Check out the latest and most popular software that Google says is the most frequently downloaded to watch satellite TV on PC.

This means every conventional TV with an antenna will become obsolete, unless it is connected to a digital tuner. After the changeover to digital transmission, TVs will be unable to receive terrestrial analog RF TV broadcasts unless connected to a set-top box or other device that contains a digital tuner.

However, the majority of TV watchers will not be affected, because 80% of television viewers use cable or satellite television and virtually all satellite users and an increasing number of cable users already use set top boxes to view programming. Many of these set top boxes can receive digital transmissions.

Satellite TV vs Cable TV
In the battle between satellite television services and cable TV, satellite continued to gain market share this year, in doing so pushing cable penetration to a 17-year low.

Direct broadcast satellite TV is now used by approximately 27.6% of US TV-owning households, up from 24% this time last year. In the same period, wired cable penetration fell slightly from 62.1% to 61.3%, the lowest it’s been since February 1990.

As a result, there are now 15 U.S. markets where satellite television has overtaken cable as the dominant TV subscription method, the study found. These markets include Albuquerque, New Mexico; Springfield, Missouri; and Shreveport, Louisiana.

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